Application of Different Statistical Tests in Educational Research: An Overview (original) (raw)

2018, Journal of emerging technologies and innovative research

Statistics is a branch of science that deals with the collection, organization, and analysis of data and drawing of inferences from the samples to the whole population. The subject Statistics is widely used in almost all fields like Biology, Botany, Commerce, Medicine, Education, Physics, Chemistry, Bio-Technology, Psychology, Zoology etc. While doing research in the above fields, the researchers should have some awareness in using the statistical tools which helps them in drawing rigorous and good conclusions. Major objectives of the present study was to know application of different statistical test in educational research, to identify basic statistical test used in educational research like t-test, z-test, ANOVA, MANOVA, ANCOVA, Chisquare test, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, Mann-Whitney test, Wilcoxon signed rank sum test, Kruskal-Wallis test, Jonckheere test and Friedman test and to know the different statistical software used in educational research like Statistical Package for the ...