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QTR Course Outline

This document outlines a course on quantitative techniques in research methods. The 3 credit, third semester course aims to provide an introduction to statistical procedures used in educational research, with an emphasis on critical thinking. Students will learn descriptive and inferential statistics, and gain experience using the SPSS software package. They will be evaluated through assignments, quizzes, exams, class participation and a research project. Topics covered during the 15 week semester include measures of central tendency, probability, hypothesis testing, correlation, regression and analysis of variance.

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QTR Course Outline

This document outlines a course on quantitative techniques in research methods. The 3 credit, third semester course aims to provide an introduction to statistical procedures used in educational research, with an emphasis on critical thinking. Students will learn descriptive and inferential statistics, and gain experience using the SPSS software package. They will be evaluated through assignments, quizzes, exams, class participation and a research project. Topics covered during the 15 week semester include measures of central tendency, probability, hypothesis testing, correlation, regression and analysis of variance.

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Quality Management System

Title Course Outline


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A. Standard Course Description

Title of Course Quantitative Techniques in Research Methods


Course Code Credit Hours 03
School LBS Program BBA/MBA
Prerequisites Statistics

B. Semester Description

Semester 3rd Year Second


Course Schedule Week Days Time 12:30-02:00
Faculty Business Email Mubashir.ali@lbs
Counselling Hours Place Class Room
Coordinator Email

C. Course Synopsis

This course will provide students with an introduction to the use of statistics in educational
research. Emphasis will be placed on students achieving an understanding of the statistical
procedures considered so that they can think critically about suitable procedures for the
collection and analysis of data, and about the educational usefulness of calculated statistics.
Students will gain experience with using the SPSS package on computers.

D. Course Objectives

1 Explain and discuss the researcher’s work (model)

2 Elucidate basic statistical concepts and tests used in educational research

3 Use statistics programs

4 Demonstrate their competence and confidence in using descriptive statistics

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5 Demonstrate their competence and confidence in using inferential statistics in general and to the
use of significance testing in particular

6 Understand and master the handling of data and employ proper analyses

7 Use output derived from statistical procedures and convert such output to understandable statements in
English

E. Recommended Text and Other Readings

Required Resources

Green, S.B. and Salkind, N.J. (2010) Using SPSS for Windows and Macintosh: Analyzing and
Understanding Data, 6e, Boston, Prentice Hall

Recommended Resources

This course also consists of additional readings from a book of notes, of the statistical concepts
and tests, prepared by Prof. John P. Keeves and Dr. I Gusti Ngurah Darmawan and of a set of
exercises arising from the notes.

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F. Student Evaluation Methods

S. No Evaluation Method Weight


1 Assignments / Presentations 20
2 Quizzes/ Term Paper for analysis/Project 30
3 Class Participation
4 Project / Field work
5 Mid Term Exam 20
6 Final Term Exam 30
7 Others (if any)
Total 100

Mid Term Exam Duration, 1 hour Final Exam Duration __2 hour

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G. Schedule of Activities

Week Topic
1 Introduction
2 Describing set of observations and distributions
3 Measures of spread of a set of scores
4 One sample t-test
5 Paired samples t-test
6 Independent samples t-test
7
ANOVA

8 Analysis of two-way tables (Chi-square analysis)


9 Correlation
10 Simple Linear Regression
11 Multiple Regression
12 Path Analysis using multiple regression
13 Project submission and changes due
14 Presentation on Project (BBA divided in 2 classes)
15 End semester Wrap Up course class

H. Additional Information (if any)

__________________ _________________
Course Instructor Head of Department

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