1. Qualitative and quantitative educational research - their characteristics and comparison and the most common types.

2. Main steps of research process (identifying a research problem, reviewing the literature, selecting participants, collecting data, analyzing and interpreting data, reporting and evaluating research).

3. Characteristics of a good research topic.

4. Questionnaire - construction, examples of questionnaires used in educational research.

5. Observation - example of structured observation a its use in educational research.

6. Types of attitude scales - Likert, semantic differential and rating scales.

7. International comparative studies in education - organizations conducting these studies, studies TIMSS and PISA and comparison of their goals, testing population and test items, results of Czech students in reading, scientific and mathematical literacy.

8. Descriptive statistics - frequencies, measures of central tendency and variability, correlation coefficient, graphing data.

9. Inferential statistics - population, random sample, normal distribution, hypotheses testing, error of the first and second kind, p-value. T-test, F-test, chi-square test and simple linear regression analysis. 10. Analyzing data using the described methods of descriptive and inferential statistics in free statistical softwares Gretl and R.