After completing this course students are able to:
- determine which statistical technique should be used to investigate different types of research questions;
- conduct the corresponding statistical analyses using the software SPSS;
- interpret SPSS output;
- report statistical findings following the APA format.
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Relationship between tests and course goals
In this course, students are assessed 4 times:
- Written in-class exam 1: this tests the knowledge and the understanding of statistical terminology and the ability to interpret and report SPSS output covered in the first half of the course (course goals 1, 3, and 4).
- Written in-class exam 2: this tests the knowledge and the understanding of statistical terminology and the ability to interpret and report SPSS output covered in the second half of the course (course goals 1, 3, and 4).
- Portfolio 1: this tests the ability to conduct the analyses covered in the first half of the course using the software SPSS, interpret the SPSS output, and report the findings following the APA format (course goals 2, 3, and 4).
- Portfolio 2: this tests the ability to conduct the analyses covered in the second half of the course using the software SPSS, interpret the SPSS output, and report the findings following the APA format (course goals 2, 3, and 4).
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The content of this course overlaps with UCACCMET22/UCACCSTA21. Do not take both.
The phenomena investigated by social scientists are rather complex. Usually, many ("multi") variables have to be used to explain these phenomena. In this course, the theory and application of multivariate statistical models will be discussed in depth. These models can be used to investigate the relations among many variables simultaneously, thus providing an accurate explanation of the subject of interest.
This special summer course is an intensive form of the regular UCACCMET23 methods and statistics II course. The same multivariate statistical models and their applications are taught. Also, the average workload is the same, but as this is an intensive summer course, the workload in a week is higher than in the regular UCACCMET23.
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