 SPSS WORKSHOP 

1.  SPSS WORKSHOP  Please Log onto Your Computer Station User Name: type in your user ID Password: type in your password Domain: ASUAD If you have trouble signing in: Then try signing in with westguest account User Name: westguest Password: asuwest Domain: (this computer) Sometime after today’s class, please go to technopolis (basement of library) to get your user ID fixed.

2. Brief Introduction to Statistics with SPSS Roger Berger Mathematical Sciences & Applied Computing Department Rico Rivera Heather Ohton Tommy Aguila Christopher Zambakari Statistics Laboratory http://www.west.asu.edu/StatLab

3. Workshop Overview • Workshop Objectives (p 1) • Understand Basic Organization of SPSS • How to input, save & retrieve raw data • How raw data file is edited in variable view • Perform basic data analyses • Table of Contents (p 2)

4. Open up your internet Explorer http://www.west.asu.edu/StatLab • Click on Workshops • Click on Data Used for SPSS Workshops • Click on Res_Stat_Edited_Data.sav • Please save it in your Desktop. • Please do not open the data file • Close the internet brower.

5. SPSS Accessibility (p. 3) • Network access • Technopolis (basement of library) • Desktop (hard drive) installed • Computer Classrooms • Stat Lab

6. Accessing the Statistic Laboratory(p. 3) • Location: CLCC 107 • Phone: (602) 543-6117 • Website: http://www.west.asu.edu/StatLab • Operating hours: See website (changes on a weekly basis) • When using the lab, please sign in at the front counter

7. Support for Statistics (p. 4) • Function of Stat Lab (also pp. 14-16) • The Stat Lab staff assists students with aspects of statistical software. • The Stat Lab is not set up to provide one-on-one tutorial service for students on a regular basis. • However, we have and frequently do answer general statistic questions. • Statistics Tutoring • Learning Enhancement Center • TRiO (SSS) program

8. Overview of the Research Process Page 5 DISCUSSION SECTION Interpretation Were the hypotheses supported? Why or why not? Any limitations? What are the Implications? Suggestions for further research? RESULTS SECTION Data Analysis Descriptive Statistics Inferential Statistics METHODS SECTION Measures or Instruments Validity - What did we measure? Reliability – How precise was the measure METHODS SECTION Participant Characteristics Who did you sample? Procedures How did we do the observations? Also look at APA outline (pp 12-14) AT THE END OF LITERATURE REVIEW OR INTRODUCTION Based on theory & literature review, what is (are) the question(s) you want to address? What are respondents’ attitude toward research and statistics? Are attitudes toward research and statistics related? Do males and females have different attitudes? Do participants in different age groups have different attitudes? Statistics Lab CLCC 107 www.west.asu.edu/StatLab (602) 543-6117

9. Procedures for Data Analysis (p. 6) Data  StatPak  Output  Interpretation • Collect & organize data • Input & edit the data • Transform Variables [will not be covered] • Analyze data or create graphs • State results and interpret

10. Please fill out the Research & Statistics Attitude Survey(Remove the last page of your handout) • Response • Strongly Disagree • Disagree • Agree • Strongly Agree • Sex • Male • Female • Age • Under 25 • 25 – 40 • Over 40 • Response • Strongly Disagree = 1 • Disagree = 2 • Agree = 3 • Strongly Agree = 4 • Sex • Male = 1 • Female = 2 • Age • Under 25 = 1 • 25 – 40 = 2 • Over 40 = 3 • Having ID column will help you keep track of cases • What do the first 5 questions (items) measure? • What do items 6 through 10 measure?

11. Let’s Launch SPSS • Menu Bar • Data & Transform are used to manipulate the data in data editor (i.e., spread sheet) • Analyze and Graphs are used to create output • Tabs (bottom left hand corner of data editor, p. 7) • Data View • Columns: Variables (e.g., questions on survey) • Rows: Cases (e.g., survey) • Variable View • How we edit the variables • Give variables their names, labels, etc • Enter you survey into Data View

12. Editing the Raw Data • Variable View • Tab (located lower left hand corner) • Pages 10 – 11 of your handout

13. Retrieving an Edited Data • Save the data set to your desktop. • Call it “edited data” & your initials • E.g., editeddataJF • Now we are going to open up a new data set. • File > open > Data • Navigate to your desktop • Open up the data file that you downloaded from our website.

14. Review of Workshop • We inputted raw data (from the survey) into the data editor • We edited a raw data file in “variable view” • pp. 9-10 • We retrieved an edited file and perform some basic statistical analyses.

15. Thanks for Having Me as Your Guest Speaker We have to justify the Stat Lab conducting SPSS workshops. Could you please fill out the “SPSS workshop Evaluation” at last page of the workshop. If would please write comments about what you like most of the workshop, what you have learned about the workshop, how we may be able to improve it. We will greatly appreciate it. Thank You,

16. Thanks for Having Me as Your Guest Speaker Do keep the “Research and Statistics Attitude Survey” you filled out. Please turn in the “SPSS Workshop Evaluation.” Have a good day. 