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APPLIED QUANTITATIVE EDUCATION RESEARCH

EDPOL 309
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Introduces how quantitative research methods are applied in empirical education research. Focused on data exploration, manipulation, visualization, and simple analyses with secondary datasets and R or other programming language.

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