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Course Objectives The course is designed to provide students with transferable skills, to understand the uses of SPSS, as a tool to summarize and aid in the interpretation of research findings.
   
Skill Sets On completing this course students will:
  • be comfortable using SPSS as a data analysis tool
  • understand how to work with SPSS
  • understand how to learn to use new features of SPSS on their own
  • understand how to acquire information (samples)
  • understand how to enter and reorganize information within SPSS
  • understand how to effectively summarize research finds using SPSS
    • through the use of appropriate indexes and tables
  • be able to choose charts to successfully highlight their research results
  • be able to understand and interpret charts
  • understand the basic principles behind inferential statistcs
  • be able to carry out inferential statistical analysis using SPSS
  • be able to integrate information and build models
  • be able to edit SPSS output
  • be able to use SPSS output to produce scientifically sound research reports