Introduction to Statistical Analysis

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Collect and apply numerical data appropriately, present data in a variety of formats including graphical and tabular and analyse and interpret both numeric and non-numeric data
• Process and synthesise empirical and theoretical data, to create new syntheses and to present and justify a chosen position having drawn on relevant theoretical perspectives
• Organise and articulate opinions and arguments in speech, writing and other appropriate media using relevant specialist vocabulary

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Use your knowledge and understanding critically to locate and justify a personal position in relation to education and psychology
• Adopt an objective approach, reflecting on your own and others' value systems
• Formulate and justify potential changes in practice
• Identify and reflect critically across aspects of subject knowledge and their application in educational contexts and policies
• Assimilate new principles and understandings as they relate to key areas in education and at the intersection of education and psychology

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Essential grounding in the research process as it applies to education and, for joint honours students, as it applies to education and psychology
• Diversity of learners and the complexities of the education process
• Underlying values and principles relevant to education and some of the core domains in the study of education and in the study of education and psychology.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.