Foundations of educational research
This course deals with the concept of educational research, its importance, development, and applications, current trends in educational research, stages of its conduct, data collection and analysis, issues of validity, consistency, and generalizability in educational research, ethics in educational research, sources of information in educational research, and writing educational research. A general introduction to educational statistics, frequency distribution, measures of central tendency, measures of dispersion, the relationship between variables, nonparametric statistics, regression and prediction, testing hypotheses, testing hypotheses about the arithmetic mean, testing hypotheses about variance, testing hypotheses about the ratio, testing hypotheses about the correlation coefficient, analysis of variance.