28 September 2020 4 440 Report

Through content analysis, I gave scores (from -2 to 4) to a number of schools to indicate the level/intensity of restorative justice (RJ) is present in their school policies. To my understanding, these variables that I created are ordinal.

Now I would like to check if there is a correlation between these ordinal variables and (to my understanding again) the following continuous/scale variables:

- the percentages school exam averages,

- the percentages of pupils with special needs per school

- the percentages of pupils with English as a second language

Ultimately, I would like to investigate whether the level of RJ and the percentages named above are correlated at all.

Should I be using Simple Linear Regression, Spearman’s test, Kendall tau test, or something else? Thank you very much in advance!

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