EDUR 8131
Educational Statistics 1
Spring 2022
Instructor: Bryan W. Griffin (bwgriffin@GeorgiaSouthern.edu)
My personal web pages:
http://www.bwgriffin.com
Announcements
Welcome to EDUR 8131.
Course Index (e.g., tests, activities, reading and other material to review
for each class session)
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Syllabus
- Course Calendar - see below.
- Readings are found in Course Calendar.
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Creating PDF Files
- Reporting statistical results in APA style
(Word Documents so you can copy and paste tables)
- Sample Test 1 (material through
one-sample t-test; note, however, for this semester Test 1 does not cover
one-sample t-test, that is found on Test 2)
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Sample Test 2 (shows examples of data analysis section of Test 2 with
t-tests, correlation, and chi-square;
Sample Test 2 Answers)
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Test 1: Covers content found in
- Notes 1 Descriptive Statistics
- Notes 2 Normal Distribution and Standard Scores
- Notes 3 Statistical Inference
- Notes 4 Hypothesis Testing and One-sample Z test.
- Test 1 due Feb 14.
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Test 2: Covers content found in
- Notes 1 through 4, and also
- Notes 5a, 5b, 5c: t-tests
- Notes 6 Correlation Coefficient, Pearson's r
- Notes 7a, 7b: Chi-square Tests
- Test 2 due
March 21.
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Test 3: Covers all content found in
- Notes 1 through 7, and also
- Notes 8a, 8b: Regression
- Notes 9 ANOVA
- Notes 9d ANCOVA (may not be covered this term)
- Test 3 due May 2.
- Table of Statistical Procedures and Their Characteristics:
PDF
Table
- Use this table to identify which statistical test is suitable for
your data and research scenarios
- Video below explains how to use this table; you should first
learn/review t-tests, Pearson r, and Chi-square tests (Notes 5, 6, and
7)
- Selecting statistical
procedures (video is also found under week 8 for fall/spring
and week 3 for summer)
- Video Presentation material (see page 10 for selecting correct
statistical test):
- SPSS Tutorials are provided in the instructional videos for this course.
Below are PDF files showing SPSS instruction.
- Entering data into SPSS (variable labels, value labels,
setting variable as numeric, etc.)
Data Entry A,
Data Entry B
- Frequencies/Explore Commands (including descriptive
statistics, box plots, histograms, stem-and-leaf, etc.)
Frequencies A,
Frequencies B,
Stem and
Leaf, Various Graphical Displays
- t-tests (one sample, independent sample, and correlated samples)
t-tests,
independent samples t-tests
- Correlation
Correlation A,
Correlation B, For
scatter plots see Various Graphical Displays above
- Chi Square
Goodness of Fit and
Test of Association; other examples:
Goodness of Fit A,
Goodness of Fit B (note this is a Word document),
Test of Association
- Regression
Regression A,
Regression B
- ANOVA
ANOVA A
(using ONEWAY command),
ANOVA B
(using ONEWAY command),
ANOVA C (using UNIVARIATE command)
- ANCOVA
ANCOVA A
- These PDF files were obtained from the following sources:
- JASP (free alternative to SPSS)
Course Calendar and Content
Weeks 1 through 5 (1/10 to 2/7)
Test 1 covers Notes 1 through 4
Weeks 6 through 9 (2/14 to 3/7)
Test 2 cover Notes 1 to Notes 7b
Spring Break 3/14 to 3/18
Weeks 10 through 15 (3/21
to 4/25)
Test 3 covers all material