SPSS On-Line Training Workshop

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Getting Started

In this Tutorial:

SPSS consists of four main windows

	the 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.
	the 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.
	the SYNTAX window: A window that allows you to create an SPSS program. This will show when you create an SPSS program file.
	the CHART window: A window that displays graphs which can be edited. This will show when you want to edit or create a graph.

MOVIE: Getting Started

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 project:

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
1	2	4	3	4	2	4
3	3	3	3	4	3	4
3	3	4	2	3	3	3

Getting Started Movie Clip

This movie clip demonstrates the following activities:

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

click here to watch: Getting Started