Abstract
Statistics is a branch of science that deals with the collection, organization, and analysis of data and drawing of inferences from the samples to the whole population. The subject Statistics is widely used in almost all fields like Biology, Botany, Commerce, Medicine, Education, Physics, Chemistry, Bio-Technology, Psychology, Zoology etc. While doing research in the above fields, the researchers should have some awareness in using the statistical tools which helps them in drawing rigorous and good conclusions. Major objectives of the present study was to know application of different statistical test in educational research, to identify basic statistical test used in educational research like t-test, z-test, ANOVA, MANOVA, ANCOVA, Chi-square test, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, Mann-Whitney test, Wilcoxon signed rank sum test, Kruskal-Wallis test, Jonckheere test and Friedman test and to know the different statistical software used in educational research like Statistical Package for the Social Science, Statistical Analysis System, Econometric Views, MINITAB, STATA, MS-Excel, PSPP, EPI-INFO etc. Secondary data has been used for this study. Data have been collected from the existing research papers, websites, books and various online journals for this study. Based on different review of literature it was found that the use of appropriate statistical techniques is a critical requirement for effective conduct of social and behavioural research. Lastly in this paper researchers concluded that skill of selecting appropriate statistical test is very essential for making good and specific conclusion and use of statistical software becomes a more important part of data analysis. Thus in educational research statistics plays an important role for making research successfully.