This book looks at quantitative research methods in education. The book is structured to start with chapters on conceptual issues and designing quantitative research studies before going on to data analysis. While each chapter can be studied separately, a better understanding will be reached by reading the book sequentially. This book is intended as a non-mathematical introduction, and a software package will be used to analyze the data. This package is SPSS, the most commonly used statistical software package in the social sciences. The Table of Contents is divided into eleven sections: (1) Introduction to Quantitative Research; (2) Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Research; (3) Designing Non-Experimental Studies; (4) Validity, Reliability and Generalisability; (5) Introduction to SPSS and the Dataset; (6) Univariate Statistics; (7) Bivariate Analysis: Comparing Two Groups; (8) Bivariate Analysis: Looking at the Relationship Between Two Variables; (9) Multivariate Analysis: Using Multiple Linear Regression to Look at the Relationship Between Several Predictors and One Dependent Variable; (10) Using Analysis of Variance to Compare More than Two groups; and (11) One Step Beyond: Introduction to Multilevel Modelling and Structural Equation Modelling. (Contains 66 figures and 12 Tables.)