Welcome
What are you trying to do?
Data I already have in education.
Your path
Create a study to hold it
A study is the container. You are not obliged to collect anything through ZStat.
Import the file
CSV for now, on the Data page. Leading zeros survive, and a column that is mostly numeric with a few words stays text rather than becoming numbers with holes in it.
Find out what you should be running
The guide for your field names the question in your own words and the procedure that answers it.
Analyse
Every result is stored with the digest of the data behind it, so you can prove later which version produced which figure.
What people in your field ask
Define the outcome - account for the school or class - compare or predict - check the test itself.
- Did the new teaching method improve scores?independent t
- Students are inside classes inside schools. Does that matter?multilevel mixed
- What predicts performance?ols regression
- Is my test any good?irt 2pl
- Does the questionnaire work the same across programmes?measurement invariance
Watch for: Analysing at the student level a treatment that was assigned to whole classes.
See what your field uses The full guide for education Start again