Statistics in Education (Part 2): When Everything You Ever Wanted Isn’t Enough

I had the most bizarre experience this past weekend. The ever awesome Ellen Yezierski (@EllenYezierski) emailed me an article she uses in her graduate level CER (Chemical Education Research) classes to peruse and discuss. The article details the "new" (i.e. 2018) APA (American Psychological Association) reporting standards that should be used for quantitative research. It … Continue reading Statistics in Education (Part 2): When Everything You Ever Wanted Isn’t Enough

Statistics in Education: It’s harder than it looks

In 2009, when I started thinking about going back to graduate school, statistics was definitely on my mind. I had the perhaps erroneous perception that statistics was not done as well as it could be in educational research, and that perception ate away at my conscience. This is why my original degree plan (pre-reqs started … Continue reading Statistics in Education: It’s harder than it looks