Talk by Gavin Brown on Quantitative Research Methods

This presentation was recorded as a guest appearance for a course taught at the University of Auckland, Faculty of Education and Social Work. The course, EDUC735 ‘Researching Educational Settings’, is taught by Dr Mohamed Alansari. He funded a series of recordings on research methods of which this is one. Permission has been gained from him to link this presentation to my figshare.com account. <div>The presentation was created as a response to the following prompts:</div><div><p>1. What counts as a quantitative project?</p><p>2. What are some of the essential features of a well-designed quantitative project?</p> <p>3. What are the differences between reliability and validity, and why are these terms important? </p> <p>4. Are self-report data reliable?</p><p><br></p>The presentation follows a script I wrote to address those questions. <br></div>