Department of Education

Students will be able to: 

 Explain the meaning of statistics and its uses in educational context

  Compute problems related to measures of central tendency and variability 

 Interpret the significant difference between two sets of independent and correlated samples 

 Test the hypotheses based on sample statistics 

 Solve problems based on non-parametric statistics and their interpretation

UNIT 1 :16 hours 

1. Concept of statistics, relevance in education, parametric and non-parametric data; scales of measurement; Graphical representation of data: histogram, frequency polygon, ogive and pie chart; 2. Measures of Central Tendency: Concept, computation and interpretation. 

UNIT II :14 hours 

1. Measures of variability: Concept, computation and interpretation. 2. Normal probability curve: Concept, application and interpretation. 3. Significance of mean and difference between means: Concept, computation and interpretation of significance of t-test 

UNIT III :16 hours 

1. Correlation: Concept, types, computation and interpretation- Product Moment, Rank Order. Multiple correlation 2. Biserial, Point Biserial, Phi, Contingency, Tetra choric correlation; their assumptions, computation and interpretation; regression and prediction. 27 

UNIT IV :14 hours 

1. ANOVA(One-way), ANCOVA: Concept, computation and interpretation, 2. Chi square: concept, computation and interpretation (equal and normal probability).