ABSTRACT
Generally, classroom research projects that lend themselves well to quantitative methodologies are those that are interested in making statistical and/or generalizable claims and/or interested in testing hypotheses. In classroom research, this typically means those projects interested in determining whether or not a particular classroom strategy works. Gathering feedback from students about a new pedagogical strategy or their affective responses to particular classes or activities may require the use of a good quantitative survey instrument. When conducting quantitative classroom research projects, more often than using experimental design, researchers tend to rely on more quasi-experimental designs. In the Writing in the Majors course (WIM), students showed trends towards increasing comfort with primary literature. Experimental design using control groups and random assignment is a model that is used in a lot of scientific research. This chapter discusses the kinds of statistics you might want to consider when analyzing the numerical data gathered within a teaching-related research project.
