Research methodology? For educators?

"Why should we, as students of educational science, bother with statistics? We don't want to 'do research'!"

Statistics lectures are generally unpopular courses. The arguments for rejection range from "I can't do that" to "I don't need that". However, your sense of achievement can be all the greater when you gain more and more confidence in reading other people's studies critically and investigating your own scientific questions empirically.

The courses offered by our Chair will accompany you on this rocky path. Based on typical research questions, the basic (statistical) analysis methods are introduced. The focus is less on the mathematical background and more on applicability: How do I analyze the data for this or that research design? What are the most important parameters that I need to report? How do I interpret my results? The aim is to train critical statistical thinking. Only when I know what statistics can do and where its limits lie will I be able to plan my own studies and carry them out independently.