LibGuides: EDR-8202 v6: Module 8 Resources

Module 8 Resources

Textbook

IBM SPSS Essentials: Managing and Analyzing Social Sciences Data
Kulas, J., Roji, R., & Smith, A. (2021). IBM SPSS essentials: Managing and analyzing Social Sciences data. John Wiley & Sons Inc.

This is the only main text reading for this week and it is optional (you will not need to know any of this information to complete the assignment for this week, but it is useful information to dig deeper into SPSS functions). This chapter (Ch. 14-17) discusses other issues with data and output in SPSS including problem solving within SPSS.

Other Resources

Alpha Level
Kim, H. W. (2018). Alpha level. In B. B. Frey (Ed.), The SAGE encyclopedia of educational research, measurement, and evaluation (pp. 65-66). SAGE.

The alpha level is chosen a priori as a level used to reject or not reject the null hypothesis, and this value is compared to p - value obtained from the statistical analysis. This chapter defines and discusses the concepts related to the alpha level.
Significance
Harlow, L. (2018). Significance. In B. B. Frey (Ed.), The SAGE encyclopedia of educational research, measurement, and evaluation (pp. 1514-1516). SAGE.

The author of these pages presents the concept of significance in statistics. Significance indicates the probability of an event (e.g., the difference between two groups) happening by chance—or that true differences exist.

Module 8 Supplemental Resources

ASC Statistics Resources
Academic Success Center (ASC). (2024). Statistics resources. Northcentral University.

This page in the ASC 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.
APA Formatting Guide for Statistics
American Psychological Association. (2022). American Psychological Association Style (7th ed.) numbers and statistics guide. American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000165-000

This resource gives a summary of how to format statistics in APA 7th edition formatting.
Presenting Statistics in Text
Academic Success Center (ASC). (2024). Presenting statistics in text. Northcentral University.

This page from the ASC offers support on how to use appropriately the different elements of statistics within text for reports, papers, assignments, etc.
Hypothesis Testing
Coleman, J. S. (2018). Hypothesis testing. In B. B. Frey (Ed.), The SAGE encyclopedia of educational research, measurement, and evaluation (pp. 803-804). SAGE.

As you reviewed in previous weeks, hypotheses are formed in inferential statistics and used to make decisions about the population using a sample. This source provides a discussion regarding the decisions that are made based on hypothesis testing.