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This paper was reviewed, accepted, and discussed at the 2015 European Association for Research and Learning in Instruction conference, Cyprus. It raises issues as to what doctoral education for advanced research methods should look like.

This document provides an overview of the New Methods for New Methods Doctoral Education Project

This is an unfunded grant application to the Volkswagen Stiftung in 2015. It suggests ways that research could be conducted to establish consensus around what needs to be done to prepare new researchers for research beyond doctoral degree.

This published study, drawing on the 2007 technical report, shows that there is great disparity among research supervisors in education as to what research methods can be taught. However, there is strong agreement as to the teachability of those components relative to the competencies successful students require. This version is the author's submitted...

This is an unfunded grant application submitted to the Spencer Foundation in 2016. It recommends using an international digital Delphi Study to generate consensus around what should be taught in quantitative research methods and how it should be taught.

One of the academic understandings that formed the basis of the merger of the Auckland College of Education and The University of Auckland, School of Education to form the Faculty of Education was that evidence-based research would inform faculty teaching. For three years prior to the merger, the School of Education and Auckland College of Education had...

This document summarises in bullet point form interview conducted in summer 2015 with various German academics concerning the methodological needs of doctoral students in education.

Seminar to the Behavior Measurement group in the Applied Educational Sciences Dept, University of Umea. Covers basic principles of exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis with an eye to validating the content structure of a test.

This was presented in August 2016 to the EARLI SIG 1 Assessment and Evaluation Summer School in Munich. It provides an introduction to CFA and SEM techniques. It presumes understanding of exploratory factor analysis and multivariate statistical techniques. It extends basic CFA into SEM and multigroup invariance testing. It illustrates procedures and...

This presentation was given in 2012 to the Post Graduate Students Association in the Faculty of Education at the University of Auckland. It covers problems of appropriate data preparation and analysis so as to make claims about phenomena. It covers the following topics:a. the problem of chanceb. sample size determinationc. power analysisd. principles of...

These notes are a summary of teaching notes used related to the preparation of data so that maximal interpretation can be made. Topics covered include:1. checking for accuracy, response sets, and validity of entries in data sets2. detecting and dealing with missing values with the expectation maximisation procedure3. identifying and dealing with outliers...

This concept map (FreeMind) outlines the intended content of the course Educ706AB taught at UoA. It attempts to outline the major issues and ideas of measurement and point to the types of statistical methods needed to analyse properly and sufficiently the complexities of educational data.

Modern ICTs are making international collaboration more feasible, opening up new ways to learn from research conducted within other educational systems. Such collaborations allow replication studies, a key process in scientific research. However, it may be inappropriate to utilize a research tool and its statistical model developed in another culture...

This presentation was given at the 2018 EARLI SIG 1 Summer School in Finland Helsinki. It provides conceptual background information necessary to carry out classical test and item response theory analyses.

This tutorial is created for presentation at the 2018 EARLI SIG 1 summer school in Helsinki, Finland (August 27-28). It provides step by step instruction in using R packages to analyse a dichotomously scored test within Classical Test and Item Response Theories. Packages used include 'psych' and 'ltm'.

This presentation is a workshop given at the 2018 Summer School for the EARLI SIG 1 Assessment and Evaluation Conference. It overviews psychometric measurement theory and provides demonstrations using R package 'ltm' to conduct item analysis for multiple choice questions.