EDUC 214A: INTRODUCTION TO QUANTITATIVE METHODS
University of California, Riverside
4 Units, Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 1.5 hours; written work, 1.5 hours. Prerequisite(s): restricted to major(s) Education; first-year standing in the Ph.D. program in Education; graduate standing; or consent of instructor. Introduces descriptive statistics and fundamentals of statistical inference in educational research. Topics include sampling theory, normal and z-distributions, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, central limit theorem, t-tests, correlation, simple regression, and chi-square.
Average GPA: 3.91
Grade distribution records: 129 students across 7 terms.
Grade distribution
| Grade | Students | Percent |
|---|---|---|
| A+ | 18 | 14.0% |
| A | 97 | 75.2% |
| A- | 6 | 4.7% |
| B+ | 1 | 0.8% |
| B | 4 | 3.1% |
| C+ | 1 | 0.8% |
| C | 2 | 1.6% |
Based on 129 student grade records across 7 terms and 3 professors.
Instructors
- Marsha Ing 73 students, Average GPA 3.94
- Gregory Palardy 34 students, Average GPA 3.81
- Soojin Park 22 students, Average GPA 3.93