Quantitative Research Design

This course is designed to provide students with the concepts and tools needed to read, understand, interpret, analyze, and evaluate quantitative literature in the field of leadership studies. In addition, students learn to apply various quantitative techniques to problems and research questions encountered in the field of leadership studies. This course is taught from an application framework. Students will identify the appropriate quantitative technique and research design for a given problem or research question; organize data in the appropriate form used by the SPSS computer software; design and execute the appropriate statistical analysis; and interpret the findings.