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ISBN-13:
9780199002221

Copyright Year:
2013

Imprint: OUP Canada


SPSS Virtual Teaching Assistant

Hannah Scott



This innovative online resource introduces students to the popular statistics program SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) through interactive video tutorials. Focusing on the most commonly used functions of SPSS, the Virtual Teaching Assistant engages students in active learning by incorporating interactive activities that replicate the experience of using SPSS, giving them hands-on experience and helping them retain knowledge.

Readership : SPSS Virtual Teaching Assistant is aimed at students taking statistical methods or social research methods courses, taught most often at the second- and third-year levels in Canadian universities and colleges. These courses are primarily offered through sociology programs, but can also be found in business, child and youth care, criminology, human geography, psychology, social work, and other social science programs.

Modules:
1. Prologue
2. Introduction
3. Opening and Exploring SPSS
4. Synchronizing the SPSS setup
5. Opening SPSS Data Files
6. Exploring Variables
7. The Variables Window
8. Exploring Data Files
9. Exiting and Saving Files
10. Creating a Data File
11. Entering and Checking Data
12. Generating a Frequency Table
13. Analyzing Frequency Distribution Output
14. Analyzing Frequency Tables Output
15. Visualizing the Output-Charts-Bar and Pie
16. Visualizing the Data - Histograms
17. Recoding
18. Compute Command
19. Measures of Central Tendency - Mode, Median, Mean
20. Measures of Central Tendency - The Standard Deviation
21. Graphing the Normal Distribution
22. z-Scores
23. Confidence Interval
24. Contingency Table
25. Chi Square Tables and Tests
26. Correlations and Pearson's r
27. t-tests, one sample
28. Paired Samples t-test
29. Independent Samples t-test
30. One Way ANOVA and F Statistics
31. Two Way ANOVA
32. Regression Scatterplot
33. Simple Linear Regression
34. Multiple Regression

There are no Instructor/Student Resources available at this time.

Dr. Hannah Scott is an associate professor in the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities and founding faculty member of the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT). She received her undergraduate degrees (Psychology and Sociology) from McMaster University, a Master of Arts in Sociology from the University of Guelph, and Doctorate of Philosophy in Sociology from University of Alberta. Her specializations include victimology, statistics, homicide studies, and more recently, the addition of drug courts to the Canadian Legal System. She is a founder and current Director of the Centre for Evaluation and Survey Research (CESR). CESR's mission is to provide a full complement of high-quality evaluation and survey research services in a technologically enhanced environment to the university and larger community.

Social Research Methods - Alan Bryman, Edward Bell and The late James J. Teevan
The Research Process - Gary D. Bouma, Rod Ling and Lori Wilkinson
Approaches to Social Research - Royce A. Singleton, Jr. and Bruce C. Straits
The Methods Coach - Lance W. Roberts, Karen Kampen and Tracey Peter
Making Sense in the Social Sciences - Margot Northey, Lorne Tepperman and Patrizia Albanese
Explorations - Keith Archer and Loleen Berdahl
The Statistics Coach - Lance W. Roberts, Tracey Peter and Karen Kampen
An Introduction to Statistics for Canadian Social Scientists - Michael Haan
Simple Statistics - Terance D. Miethe and Jane Florence Gauthier

Special Features

  • Interactive activities promote active learning. Each tutorial features exercises that replicate the process of using SPSS, preparing students to use the software with confidence.
  • Unique Resource. The only interactive online SPSS training available that has been created with the needs of Canadian students in mind.
  • Classroom Tested. Used by students at UOIT for a number of years, this program has improved student grades while allowing instructors to focus their teaching time on research principles and methods.
  • An authoritative guide to the commonly used functions of SPSS. Focusing on one task or skill at a time to allow for targeted learning and review, each module can be easily integrated into the classroom or lab.