The course will enable students to -
COURSE OUTCOMES (Cos):
Course |
Learning outcome
(at course level) |
Learning and teaching strategies |
Assessment Strategies |
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Paper Code |
Paper Title |
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ATG / BSG / FSG 125 |
Introduction to SPSS (Practical) |
The students will be able to –
CO21: Have basic knowledge on qualitative research techniques . CO22: Have adequate knowledge on measurement & scaling techniques as well as the quantitative data analysis. CO23: Have basic awareness of data analysis-and hypothesis testing procedures |
Approach in teaching: Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Team teaching
Learning activities for the students: Field activities, Presentation, Giving tasks |
Quiz, test, assignments and viva-voce |
Introduction to SPSS: Creating a data file, defining variables, Data Entry, inserting variable, measurement scales, inserting cases, identifying duplicate cases, sorting cases, merging & splitting files, select case.
Managing Data: Missing data, compute variable, recode variable, rank cases, Weighted Cases, . Frequencies, Descriptive, Cross Tabs, Exploratory, Custom Tables.
Visual Statistics using SPSS: Line Chart, Pie chart , Bar Chart, Histograms & standard Normal curve, Box Plots, outliers, Scatter plot, P-P plot, Q-Q plot, Editing graphs and Axes.
Descriptive Statistics using SPSS: Measures of central tendency, variability, deviation from normality, confidence level, Confidence Intervals, Power of the test, Normal Curve, Normality Test, Reliability Analysis.
Bi variate Correlation using SPSS: Bi variate Correlation, Partial Correlations and the correlation matrix.
1. James B Cunningham ,Using SPSS: An interactive hands- on Approach, Peacock publisher, 3rd Edition. 2. A. Rajathi& P. Chandran , SPSS for You, mjp publishers. 3. Seyed Reza HashemianRahaghi, Farnaz Abed Ashtiani , Basic of Statistics & SPSS, create space independent publishing platform. 4. Robert H. Carver , Doing Data Analysis with SPSS version 18.0, Cengage publishers. 5. S. Ajai Gaur , Statistical methods for practice & research: A guide to Data Analysis using SPSS, Sage Publishers. Note: Latest edition of the readings may be used.