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=**Instructor: Dr. Lynna Ausburn**=
 * Welcome to OCED 6110: Quantitative Problems in Instructional Research**



This WikiSpace will serve as our course home site and information/collaboration center. Dr. Ausburn will show you how to locate, join, and use this Wikispace.

**Please be assured that //NO PREVIOUS// experience with or knowledge about statistics is assumed for this course! Also be assured that our mutual task in class is to be SURE that you understand every statistic and quantitative concept presented. We will go over EVERYTHING until you are comfortable! The goal of this couse is for all participants to develop competence to meet personal research needs. The emphasis is on cooperative learning and success, not on competition. "Gotcha" is NEVER appropriate in this course! Questions and re-work to mastery are ALWAYS appropriate.**

**Required Textbooks and Resources** Green, S.B., & Salkind, N.J. //Using SPSS for windows and macintosh: Analyzing and understanding data.// Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall. EITHER 5th OR 6th edition is fine.

Salkind, N.J. //Statistics for people who (think they) hate statistics// Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. EITHER 5th OR 6th Edition is fine.

__OTHER RESOURCES__ 1. Online statistice text - see Internet links here on the wiki. 2. Sheskin, D. J. (2007). //Handbook of parametric and nonparametric statistical procedures// (4th ed.). Boca Raton, Florida: Chapman & Hall/CRC, Taylor & Francis Group. 3. American Psychological Association (2010). //Publication manual of the American Psychological Association.// Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association. __A personal copy is strongly recommended.__

Other Internet sites, handouts, and research articles will be assigned/provided as the course progresses.

 * __EMAIL for this course:__** Please note that the Wikispace has its own internal email system. We will use this email system for communication in this class. I will use the email at this wiki to communicate with you during this class. You can also use this email system to contact me aand each other. Dr. Ausburn will show you how to use the wiki email system.

__**Navigating this Space:**__ To find the content at this space, look to the right of the screen to see the "pages" that are available**.** Click on the name of a page to open it and view its contents. To create a new page for yourself or for working with a classmate, click on **New Page** and then create your new page, adding whatever content you wish. Dr. Ausburn will show you more about using our class wikispace during our first class meeting.


 * __Contacting Me:__** You are always welcome to contact me whenever you need assistance. You have both my office and my home phone numbers on your course syllabus. You are welcome to use either number to find me quickly when you need to talk to me. If you want to visit with me face-to-face, I will be happy to work with you to arrange a time to meet with me in either Stillwater or Tulsa.

Who Feels Like This about "Quant Double-Speak" at the Beginning of the Course?

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