Mastering Research Statistics, 2nd Edition by Chua Yan Piaw 9789670761442

Chua Yan Piaw is a professor in the Institute of Educational Leadership, Faculty of Education, University of Malaya, Malaysia. He teaches research methods and statistics courses, and worked as a research statistics consultant at the Unit for the Enhancement of Academic Performance, UM (2010 - 2015) which was set up to increase the percentage of academic staffs with PhD qualification.

His book series "Research Methods and Statistics", book 1 to book 5 with 61 chapters, are the McGraw-Hill Education's Top-10 Bestselling Titles in Malaysia. The second book of the book series "Mastering Research Methods, 2nd Edition" was awarded the 2018 Book Publication Award by the University of Malaya. He is an author, reviewer and editorial board member of Web of Science ISI journals (Social Science Citation Index). He was awarded the 2017 and 2018 Outstanding Journal Reviewer Award and the 2016 Excellent Reviewer Award by the publisher Elsevier for his contribution in reviewing journal articles of a Tier 1 ISI journal in the Thomson Reuters Social Science Citation Index - the Computers in Human Behaviour journal. He has published books in various fields, including creative & critical thinking, multiple intelligence, educational leadership, arts education, chemistry, science, and calligraphy.

He was the winner of 6 gold medal awards of interntional invention and innovation expos; and the winner of 5 gold medal awards of the World Peace Painting and Calligraphy Exhibitions.

Besides that, he was an invited speaker for more than 100 research methods and data analysis using AMOS, SPSS and SmartPLS workshops. From 2015 to 2017 he was invited by the Institute of Graduate Studies to conduct 38 data analysis workshops (14-hours for each workshop) to post-graduate students at the university under the up-skill programme to enhance their data analysis skills. Between 2015 and 2016, he was invited by the National Sport Institute of Malaysia to conduct 12 statistics workshop for biomechanics, nutritionists and psychologists of Malaysia national athletes to enhance their data analysis and report writing skills.