Using Statistics in Small-Scale Language Education Research: Focus on Non-Parametric Data
Jean L. Turner · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 2014
Preface Acknowledgements Section I: Foundations Chapter One: What is research? Chapter Two: Defining and describing variables Chapter Three: Designing sound research--variable roles, threats to validity, and research design Chapter Four: How are research questions formed and what are the parts of well-written research reports? Chapter Five: What is logical about statistical logic and what purposes does it serve? Section II: Analyzing Differences Between Two Sets of Data Chapter Six: The parametric t-test statistics Chapter Seven: The non-parametric Mann-Whitney U Test and Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test statistics Section III: Analyzing Differences Among more than Two Sets of Data Chapter Eight: Introduction to the parametric between-group analysis of variance statistic (ANOVA) Chapter Nine: The non-parametric Kruskal-Wallis and Friedman's Test statistics Section IV: Analyzing Patterns within a Variable and Between Two Variables Chapter Ten: The parametric Pearson's Product Moment Correlation Coefficient statistic Chapter Eleven: The non-parametric Spearman's Rho and Kendall's Tau statistics Chapter Twelve: The non-parametric Chi-Squared statistics References