lign="justify"> learning outcome. In this case curriculum is independent variable, while students outcome depends on it.nonexperimental research method is causal-comparative research. For this method a researcher has to select people in whom the independent variable is present or absent and then observe if there will be some changes connected to the dependent variable, in other words, the researcher studies cause-and-effect correlation.research is depended on two variables and it usually goes together with correlational statistics. The results of the study are presented in scattergram, where the connection between two variables is shown, x-and y-axis correspondingly. There can be either positive or negative correlation. If it is possible to predict how the
y < span align = "justify"> variable changes according to
x , then it is positive; if it is impossible, then the correlation is negative. The use of correlational method allows a researcher to see how different variables can influence each other, what is not so easy to see in other methods, where main conclusions will be about effective and ineffective teaching styles or whatever.
Conclusion and discussion
As it is seen from above, there are plenty of ways to make educational research. Sometimes people are not aware of all the advantages and disadvantages of different methods and how they can be implemented, and mistakenly believe that there are two different kinds of research: qualitative and quantitative and as a result of this the methods are divided correspondently.the authors of this book showed how and what for each method can be used in different ways. This book gives a light and has to be a manual for everybody who wants to make research in education.alongside with globalization more and more educational studies are done, international tests are becoming more available, demanded and popular and it requires a good system for data analysis. Majority of these tests are either totally computerized or at least data are analyzed through special programs. And although the results are made through statistics or other quantitative methods, the researchers are able to give good interpretation and characteristics. And it proves that education is not a strange science.
