Topic: Review of Research, Measurement, and Statistics

Instructions for EDUR 9131

The material that follows is marked either with "Read and Review" or "Skim." These ideas are explained below.

Read and Review - read this material, watch videos, understand these concepts

Skim - refresh your understanding of this material, content will be referenced during course

1. Educational Research Presentations and Videos

• Read and Review: Scientific Method, Components of Research Reports, Literature Reviews: Presentation PDF and Presentation Video (32 minutes; study displayed in video: Lu et al. 2017)) - from EDUR 7130 Educational Research
• Read and Review: Measurement and Variables: Presentation PDF (ignore mentions of classroom measurement) and Presentation Video (48 minutes) - from EDUR 8331 Applied Measurement
  • Practice - Identifying Variables in Research Questions (with answers)
  • Practice - Identifying Variables in a Published Study (Answers)
• Skim: Writing Hypotheses: Presentation PDF and Presentation Video (26 minutes) - from EDUR 7130 Educational Research
  • Practice - Identifying Hypotheses and Variables (Answers)
• Skim: Sampling: Presentation PDF and Presentation Video (48 minutes) - from EDUR 7130 Educational Research
  • Practice - Identifying Sampling Methods (Answers)

2. Statistics Presentations and Videos

• Read and Review: Basic Statistical Concepts and Graphical Displays: Presentation PDF (with SPSS) and Presentation Video (with SPSS) (39 minutes) - from EDUR 8331 Applied Measurement

  • JASP video (alternative to SPSS): JASP Data Entry, Descriptive Statistics, Frequencies, and Graphical Displays (same data as in Basics Statistical Concepts and SPSS above)

  • JASP does not provide frequency tables for numbers with decimals; this video shows a math hack to make it work: Frequencies for numbers with decimals in JASP

  • JASP can open SPSS files directly. This is illustrated in the Pearson Correlation video below.

  • Practice - Reading Descriptive Statistics (Answers)

  • Practice - Graphical Displays (Answers)

• Read and Review: Pearson Correlation: Presentation PDF and Presentation Video (with SPSS) (21 minutes) - from EDUR 8331 Applied Measurement

  • JASP video: Pearson Correlation with JASP (same data as in Pearson Correlation and SPSS video above)

  • Word Document for APA style tables for correlation

  • Practice - Correlation (answers)

• Skim: Two-group t-test: Presentation PDF (with SPSS) and Presentation Video (with SPSS) (50 minutes) - from EDUR 8131 Ed. Statistics 1

  • Note that two-group t-test begins on page 9 of the presentation and minute 30:42 with the video

  • JASP video: Two-group t-test with JASP (with same data as illustrated above)

  • Word Document for APA style tables for t-test

  • Practice - One and Two Samples t-test (answers; work only with items 1 and 4; items 2 and 3 are one-sample t-test)

• Skim: Analysis of Variance Part 1: Presentation PDF (with SPSS) and Presentation Video (with SPSS) (37 minutes) - from EDUR 8131 Ed. Statistics 1

• Skim: Analysis of Variance Part 2: Presentation PDF (with SPSS) and Presentation Video (with SPSS) (48 minutes) - from EDUR 8131 Ed. Statistics 1

  • JASP video: ANOVA with JASP (same data as above)

  • Here is an excellent video showing how to enter data for ANOVA in JASP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbBw4tNPuZU)

  • Word Document for APA style tables for ANOVA

• Read and Review: Regression with one predictor: Presentation PDF (with SPSS) and Presentation Video (with SPSS) (58 minutes) - from EDUR 8131 Ed. Statistics 1

  • JASP video: Regression with JASP (same data as above)

  • Word Document for APA style tables for regression

  • Practice - to be added

• Read and Review: Multiple Regression (multiple predictors) Part 1: Presentation PDFa> (with SPSS) and Presentation Video (with SPSS) (21 minutes) - from EDUR 8131 Ed. Statistics 1

• Read and Review: Multiple Regression (multiple predictors) Part 2: Presentation PDFa> (with SPSS) and Presentation Video (with SPSS) (33 minutes) - from EDUR 8131 Ed. Statistics 1

  • JASP video: a href="http://www.bwgriffin.com/gsu/courses/edur8131/jasp/Notes-08b-data.mp4"> Multiple Regression with JASP (same data as above)

  • Word Document for APA style tables for multiple regression

  • Practice - to be added

3. Additional Readings - Not required, only if information presented above is unclear

• From textbook: de Vaus (5th and 6th editions) chapters 

• 1, 2, and 3 - Theory, variables, scientific method, research questions

• 6 - Sampling

• 12 - Variables and scales of measurement

• 13 - Descriptive statistics

• 14 - Graphics and nominal variable analysis

• 15 - Correlation and regression

• 16 and 17 - Regression 

• Supplemental Readings

• Van lerkom, Chapter 1 Introduction to Measurement (linked PDF of chapter 1)
• Van Blerkom, Chapter 18 The Language and Logic of Statistics (linked PDF of chapter 18)
• SPSS Tutorials
  •  Material from EDUR 8131 Introduction to Educational Statistics SPSS Tutorials