LibGuides: EDR-8202 v4: Week 1 Resources

Week 1 Resources

Center for Teaching and Learning. (2019, August). Downloading IBM SPSS Statistics. National University.
As part of your registration for this course, NU provides access to the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). Take time to ensure your access to SPSS so that you can troubleshoot problems now. If you have difficulty accessing SPSS, contact the NU IT support desk (servicedesk@nu.edu). Once you have access to SPSS, any questions should be addressed to your instructor.
Academic Success Center (ASC). (2020). Statistics resources. National University.
This LibGuide includes all of the statistics resources curated by NU's Academic Success Center. Use the headings on the left side of this ASC page to navigate to your particular area of need.
Fraudulent and misleading data.
Bradford, L. (2018). Fraudulent and misleading data. In B. Frey (Ed.), The SAGE encyclopedia of educational research, measurement, and evaluation (Vol. 1, pp. 707-708). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www-doi-org.proxy1.ncu.edu/10.4135/9781506326139.n276
This reading discusses the concepts of reporting fraudulent and misleading statistics with the intention of misguiding the reader. Unfortunately, when this behavior happens, the researcher will face serious professional consequences.
Descriptive statistics
Frey, B. (2018). The SAGE encyclopedia of educational research, measurement, and evaluation (Vols. 1-4). Thousand Oaks,, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. doi: 10.4135/9781506326139
This reading discusses the concepts of reporting fraudulent and misleading statistics with the intention of misguiding the reader. Unfortunately, when this behavior happens, the researcher will face serious professional consequences.

Discovering Statistics Using IBM SPSS Statistics by Andy Field
ISBN: 9781526419521
Publication Date: 2018-01-08
Chapter 1 (pp. 1-36) discusses the basic measurement terminology and concepts needed for statistical analyses. Moreover, it discusses the different types of characteristics of the variables, and it provides the basic information related to the dissemination of the results.

Parameters.
Mitra. A. (2012). Parameters. In N. J. Salkind (Ed.), Encyclopedia of research design (pp. 998-999). SAGE.
In these pages, you will find the definition of a parameter. It is important for you to understand the difference between a parameter and a statistic. The parameter is a characteristic of the population, while a statistic is a characteristic of a sample.
Levels of measurement
Frey, B. (2018). The SAGE encyclopedia of educational research, measurement, and evaluation (Vols. 1-4). Thousand Oaks,, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. doi: 10.4135/9781506326139
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The way things are measured is very critical in statistics. Each method has different qualities and characteristics. The type of statistical analysis chosen depends on these characteristics.
Sample
Huck, S. W., Beavers, A. S., & Esquivel, S. (2012). Sample. In N. J. Salkind (Ed.), Encyclopedia of research design (pp. 1295-1299). SAGE.
This chapter discusses the characteristics of the samples. It defines what a sample is and the use of samples in research to make inferences about a population.
SPSS.
Gordon, M., & Courtney, R. (2018). SPSS. In B. B. Frey (Ed.), The SAGE encyclopedia of educational research, measurement, and evaluation (pp. 1577-1583). SAGE.
This resource presents an introduction to the basic commands available in SPSS. It presents the description of the different windows found in the software, as well as instructions to conduct basic analyses.

SPSS Confidence Scores.sav
You will use this data file as part of this week’s assignment. The data in this file are the same data presented in Table 1 within the assignment instructions.

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