Statistical methods in education pdf

It seems that a new discipline is growing slowly, with the aim of covering the management and the organization of educational systems.
In this context, statistical methods must play a central role.

Hence, both educational system evaluation and statistical methods for evaluation of educational systems deserve attention through parallel development.
This Special Issue of Journal of Applied Statistics contains papers on various statistical aspects of the educational system with special attention to tertiary education.

THIS paper offers a sympathetic, but critical, perspective on selected statistical methods relevant to both educational and psychological research.
I argue that the classical statistical procedures used in these fields should, where appropriate, be deployed in the service of a more liberal realist conception of research.

Reason 1:

1. Statistics allows educators to understand student performance using descriptive statistics

Reason 2:Statistics allows educators to spot trends in student performance using data visualizations.
Reason 3:Statistics allows educators to compare different teaching methods using hypothesis tests.