Quantitative Data Management in Educational Research

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The rule of thumb for a quantitative research project in education is that about 70%-80% of your time will be spent on creating the dataset to be analyzed. The purpose of this course is to provide you with the set of practical skills that you need to successfully design and complete a quantitative research project in education, especially the dissertation. Students will learn how to create, merge, collapse and reshape datasets, create variables, deal with missing data via multiple imputation, and automate statistical output into Excel.