QUESTION
How do descriptive and inferential statistics help a teacher? Explain.
Course: Educational Statistics
Course code 8614
Level: B.Ed Solved Assignment
ANSWER
Descriptive and Inferential Statistics
Researchers use a variety of statistical procedures to organize and interpret data. These procedures can be classified into two categories – Descriptive Statistics and Inferential Statistics. The starting point for dealing with a collection of data is to organize, display, and summarize it effectively. It is the major objective of descriptive statistics.
Descriptive Statistics, as the name implies, describes the data. Descriptive statistics consist of methods for organizing and summarizing information. These are statistical procedures that are used to organize, summarize, and simplify data. In these techniques, raw scores are taken, and some statistical techniques to obtain a more manageable form. These techniques allow the researcher to describe a large amount of information or scores in a few indices such as mean, median, standard deviation, etc. When these indices are calculated for a sample, they are called statistics; and when they are calculated from the entire population, they are called parameters (Fraenkel, Wallen, & Hyun, 2012). Descriptive statistics organizes scores in the form of a table or a graph. It is especially useful when the researcher finds it necessary to handle interrelationships among more than two variables.
Only summarizing and organizing data is not the whole purpose of a researcher. He often wishes to make inferences about a population based on data he has obtained from a sample. For this purpose, he uses inferential statistics. Inferential Statistics are techniques that allow a researcher to study samples and then make generalizations about the populations from which they are selected.
The population of a research study is typically too large and it is difficult for a researcher to observe each individual. Therefore a sample is selected. By analyzing the results obtained from a sample, a researcher hopes to make a general conclusion about the population. One problem with using a sample is that a sample provides only limited information about the population. To address this problem the notion that the sample should be representative of the population. That is, the general characteristics of the sample should be consistent with the characteristics of the population
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