Course Description: This course covers statistical techniques associated with analyzing experimental and quasi-experimental designs.
Course Overview: The purpose of this course is to prepare you to be proficient in using SPSS in different statistical analyses such as t-test, ANOVA, and correlation. The course emphasizes the practical application of knowledge and skills that will enable you to conduct rigorous and statistically sound analyses.
Course Objectives: With the successful completion of this course, the researcher will have the skills to:
- Integrate the basics of statistics with its practices in working with SPSS
- Understand the appropriate use of between-groups and repeated measures t-test and ANOVA
- Analyze and interpret interaction effects
4. Correlation-based techniques
5. Creating datasets for questionnaires and preparing questionnaire-based statistics
Course Schedule
Session1 |
-Introduction to the course -Understanding the basics of statistics -Defining variables and statistical designs |
Week 2 |
-Creating data file, entering data, and defining variables in SPSS -Descriptive Statistics -Presenting the data graphically |
Week 3 |
-Comparing two means: Conducting independent t-test -How to write the statistical reports and interpret the findings |
Week 4 |
-Comparing two means in one group: Conducting dependent t-test -Repeated measures designs |
Week 5 |
-Comparing several means I: ANOVA (GLM)(One- way analysis of variance) -The basics, data structure, and its statistical assumptions |
Week 6 |
-Comparing several means II: ANOVA (GLM)(two-way analysis of variance) -Interaction effects of two categorical variables |
Week 7 |
-Repeated measures designs I (GLM4) -One-way repeated measures ANOVA -The basics, data structure, and its statistical assumptions -How to write the statistical reports and interpret the findings |
Week 8 |
-Correlation in L2 Research -Defining variables and variance accounted for -Introduction to reliability analysis of questionnaires |
Week 9 |
-Creating datasets of questionnaires -Calculating the internal consistency of scales -Descriptive statistics of items |
Week 10 |
Review |
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