ABSTRACT
By now you should have the knowledge and skills you need to explore, describe and conduct routine analyses of a quantitative dataset. For some of you, this is actually all you will ever want to do. You may, for example, be interested simply in studying the children in your own school. The data you collect could relate to all children in that school (or a particular year group) and you are content just to analyze those data in relation to a particular issue or set of issues you are interested in (i.e. prevalence of bullying; attitudes to different subject lessons; gender differences in end of year tests; and/or attitudes to school meal provision). Alternatively, you may have data for all schools in your own school board or local education authority area and would like to explore and analyze key performance indicators across these schools. Moreover, if you have access to data gathered as part of a census (i.e. a survey of all schools or a survey of all members of a given population) then, again, you already have the knowledge and skills necessary to conduct routine analysis of those data.
