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In this Tutorial: 

   Data Description

What's on the Clip

 

 

SPSS consists of four main windows

DATA window: A spreadsheet-like window that allows you to enter your data as an SPSS worksheet. This is the first window you will see when you run SPSS. There are two views in the Data Editor Window:

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Data View: It displays the data values. Each variable is a column. Each row is a case.

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Variable View: It displays a table consisting of variable names and their attributes. You can modify the properties of each variable or add new or delete existing variables in the Variable View Window.

OUTPUT Viewer window: A window that holds all of the results from performing any analysis. This will show as a result of your first analysis.

SYNTAX window: A window that allows you to create an SPSS program. This will show when you create an  SPSS program file.

CHART window: A window that displays graphs which can be edited. This will show when you want to edit or create a graph.

In this clip, you will learn how to enter your own data into SPSS, how to open an SPSS data file, how to use the frequency procedure, and how to use the crosstab procedure. You will also get a brief look at 4 commonly used windows; the data editor window, the output window, the chart editor window, and the syntax window.

The data used for this demonstration is from an assessment project of a mathematics course, which is described below.

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In this on-line workshop, you will find many movie clips. Each movie clip will demonstrate some specific usage of SPSS. The following  movie clip will take you through basic steps for analyzing a survey project.

Description of the Data used in this clip:

A pre/post-test was conducted to assess how much students understand basic concepts of a mathematics course. A survey of 20 items was conducted at the beginning and at the end of a semester. The survey consists of 5 items on background information, 5 items on attitude and 10 items on knowledge. For demonstration purpose,  2 background, 2 attitudes and 3 knowledge items will be used here.

The first three cases are

College

Grade

Attitude1

Attitude2

Q1

Q2

Q3

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Getting Started Movie Clip

This movie clip demonstrates the following activities:

bulletTo create/save a simple SPSS data in the DATA Window
bulletTo run frequency tables and descriptive statistics and get the results in the OUTPUT window
bulletTo create/edit Pie/Bar charts in the CHART window
bulletTo create an SPSS program for doing the above analysis in the SYNTAX window
bulletTo print/save the output and syntax files

Getting Started Clip click here to watch: Getting Started

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