The course is designed to introduce graduate students to the application of statistical techniques to research in education. The development of skills in interpreting statistical concepts is emphasized whereby students will develop an understanding of statistical logic and procedures. In addition, students will get hands-on experience with SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) Windows. SPSS is a powerful statistical application package that is particularly useful for the analysis of questionnaire data. It can be used in the analysis of data from various disciplines.