1. Scientific goal and scientific method
2. Research theories
3. Qualitative vs quantitative paradigm
4. Types of pedagogical research
5. Sample of respondents (probabilistic and non-probabilistic)
6. Hypotheses (null, alternative) and variables (independent, dependent, duality), categorical (dichotomous, trichotomous, polytomous), quantitative (discrete and continuous)
7. Data collection methods and instruments
8. Types of measurements and measurement scales (nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio; Thurston, Bogardus, Semantic differential)
9. Research designs (experimental, quasi-experimental, differential, correlational, ex post facto, case study)
10. Correlations (linear and non-linear, stochastic)
11. Chi square test (Log linear)
12. T test (one sample, independent samples, related samples)
13. ANOVA (One way, two way)
14. Parametric and non-parametric tests (and robust)
15. Action research
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