ASIAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION COLLEGE

Tacloban City

COURSE SYLLABUS

COURSE TITLE: 203 EDUCATIONAL STATISTICS

Course Description:
This is a 3-unit course which deals with the basic principles, methods and techniques in
analyzing data that is to organize and make sense out of a large amount of material. It is with this
manipulation of data that we shall be concerned in this course.

Course Objectives:
1. To be able to read professional literature, requiring familiarity with the basic statistical
ideas.
2. To master techniques needed in advanced courses, commonly used in certain
disciplines, surveys, laboratory courses, etc.
3. To build and analyze tests in order to give our students fair and just evaluation of their
work.

Course Content:

Unit I. Overview: The development of the testing Movement/Brief History of Statistics

II. Evaluation of Student Performance

1. Norm-Referenced and Criterion-Referenced Assessment
2. Types of Assessment
3. Characteristics of a Good Test
4. Learning Objectives as Vital Inputs to Evaluation
5. Development of Test Specification Grid

III. A review of Fundamentals (Review of Arithmetic)

1. Decimals 6. Removing Parenthesis & Simplifying
2. Fractions 7. Proportions & Percentages
3. Negative Numbers 8. Rounding Numbers
4. Use of Zero 9. Square root
5. Exponents 10, Statistical symbols

IV. Frequency Distributions, Graphs and Centiles

1. Distribution of Frequency
2. Graphs
2.1 Types of Graphs
2.2 Types of Curves
2.3 Cumulative Frequency Distribution
2.4 Obtaining the Cumulative Proportion and Percentages
 V. Measures of Central Tendency
1. The Arithmetic Mean 4. When to employ the mean, median and mode
2. The Median 5. Means of means, percentages, and proportions
3. The Mode 6. Index of Wasting

VI. Measures of Variability

1. The total Range
2. The Standard Deviation
3. Descriptive Uses of Statistics

VII. Correlation
1. The meaning of correlation
2. How to compute a coefficient of correlation
3. The scatter diagrams
4. Assumptions underlying the product moment correlation

VIII. Significance of Difference

1. Difference between mean
2. Difference between proportions and frequencies
3. Difference regarding other between coefficient of correlation
4. Difference between variances

IX. Other Statistical Methods

1. Some rules for statistical decisions
2. Errors in statistical decisions
3. Needed sample sizes

Strategies:

Course Requirements:
1. Mid-Term Examinations
2. Final Examinations

Bibliography:
Guiford, J.P. & Benjamin. Fundamentals Statistics in Psychology and Education,
National Bookstore, Inc, Manila, Philippines

Downie, N.M. & Health, R.W., Basic Statistical Methods, Harper & Row
Publisher, New York.

Prepared by:

VIOLETA B. SUYOM, Ph.D.