Quantitative Research

Catalog description

One of the greatest challenges faced by school leaders is harnessing the power of data to drive school improvement. To this end, in the present climate of rapidly emerging research findings and data-driven decision-making, today’s leaders must be able to perform, analyze, and critically interpret statistics. Hence, this course is designed to prepare doctoral students to perform dissertation research by giving them fundamental understanding of the quantitative research methodology. Overall, this course will provide students with; (a) the fundamental of descriptive and inferential statistics necessary to manipulate quantitative information,(b) the necessary frameworks to describe, interpret, and critique the components of various quantitative research studies in education, and (c)the conceptual understanding of the experimental and non-experimental research methodologies.