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Enhancing SPSS Skills for Psychology and Sociology Students: Supplemental Tutorials - Prof, Study Guides, Projects, Research of Psychology

University of North Georgia (UNG)Psychology
Prof. Chuck Robertson

A proposal for the creation and dissemination of supplemental tutorials to accompany courses in the department of psychology and sociology at north georgia college & state university that use statistical packages for the social sciences (spss). The tutorials will be developed using live screencasting technology and will cover various statistical procedures, aiming to enhance student learning and information literacy. The project objectives include improving students' understanding of statistical theory, procedures, analysis, and interpretation, as well as their ability to evaluate information critically.

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Leaders in Information Literacy Grants Program
Application
2007-2008 Academic Year
Proposals for Fall 2007 are due September 28, 2007.
Proposals for Spring 2008 are due February 28, 2008.
Please complete the following information and submit it with your proposal to:
QEP Steering Committee
Dr. Marina Slemmons & Dr. Ross Alexander
147 Health and Natural Sciences Bldg.
North Georgia College & State University
Dahlonega, GA 30597
This is a Word form and you can type only in the gray boxes. The box will expand to fit
what you type. You can cut and paste into the gray box from another document if you wish.
Name: Dr. Steven A. Lloyd, Dr. Chuck Robertson & Dr. Kelly
Cate
Date: 9/13/07
Department: Psychology & Sociology
Telephone: 1445,
3220, 1443 Fax: 1674
Email address: salloyd@ngcsu.edu; chuckrob@mac.com; klcate@ngcsu.edu
Title of Project: The Creation, Dissemination, and Assessment of Live SPSS Screencast
Tutorials
Please address the following criteria. Your replies should be complete, yet succinct. Please
limit your response to approximately 500 words total.
Briefly describe your information literacy project – including how student learning will be
enhanced.
The focus of this proposal is the construction and utilization of supplemental tutorials to
accompany several classes in the Department of Psychology and Sociology which use the
Statistical Packages for the Social Sciences (SPSS). The tutorials will be developed so that they
are appropriate for both course specific supplements as well as general reference guides. The
series of tutorials will cover the fundamentals of data analysis for common descriptive,
inferential and non-parametric procedures including, graphing, measures of central tendency and
dispersion, cross tabulations, standardized scores, t-tests, ANOVAs, correlation, linear regression
and chi-square procedures within the SPSS environment.
The technique used to construct these tutorials is live screencasting via iShowU software
from www.shinywhitebox.com. Upon playback of each tutorial, students will view virtual
lectures in real time with continuous screenshots and synched audio content – as if they were in
the classroom watching their instructor perform statistical analyses using SPSS. Since each
tutorial will be saved in a compressed Quicktime movie format, they can be easily disseminated
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Leaders in Information Literacy Grants Program

Application

2007-2008 Academic Year

Proposals for Fall 2007 are due September 28, 2007. Proposals for Spring 2008 are due February 28, 2008.

Please complete the following information and submit it with your proposal to: QEP Steering Committee Dr. Marina Slemmons & Dr. Ross Alexander 147 Health and Natural Sciences Bldg. North Georgia College & State University Dahlonega, GA 30597

This is a Word form and you can type only in the gray boxes. The box will expand to fit what you type. You can cut and paste into the gray box from another document if you wish.

Name: Dr. Steven A. Lloyd, Dr. Chuck Robertson & Dr. Kelly Cate

Date: 9/13/

Department: Psychology & Sociology Telephone: 1445, 3220, 1443

Fax: 1674

Email address: salloyd@ngcsu.edu; chuckrob@mac.com; klcate@ngcsu.edu

Title of Project: The Creation, Dissemination, and Assessment of Live SPSS Screencast Tutorials

Please address the following criteria. Your replies should be complete, yet succinct. Please limit your response to approximately 500 words total.

Briefly describe your information literacy project – including how student learning will be enhanced. The focus of this proposal is the construction and utilization of supplemental tutorials to accompany several classes in the Department of Psychology and Sociology which use the Statistical Packages for the Social Sciences (SPSS). The tutorials will be developed so that they are appropriate for both course specific supplements as well as general reference guides. The series of tutorials will cover the fundamentals of data analysis for common descriptive, inferential and non-parametric procedures including, graphing, measures of central tendency and dispersion, cross tabulations, standardized scores, t-tests, ANOVAs, correlation, linear regression and chi-square procedures within the SPSS environment. The technique used to construct these tutorials is live screencasting via iShowU software from www.shinywhitebox.com. Upon playback of each tutorial, students will view virtual lectures in real time with continuous screenshots and synched audio content – as if they were in the classroom watching their instructor perform statistical analyses using SPSS. Since each tutorial will be saved in a compressed Quicktime movie format, they can be easily disseminated

in a number of ways. The tutorials can be stored on the NGCSU network, posted to WebCT courses, converted to podcasts for playback on a number of aggregators including iTunes/iPods and posted to iTunes University and/or the University’s newly purchased Second Life Island. There are numerous enhanced student learning objectives for this project. First and foremost, these tutorials will offer the students yet another tool for learning statistical theory, procedures, analysis and interpretation. Each tutorial will be focused and hierarchical, starting with basic procedures and building to more complex modes of analysis. The tutorials will seamlessly follow the design of PSYC 3070 (Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences) and PSYC 3080 (Research Methodology) and will reinforce important lecture objectives. Additionally, the tutorials will aide the students in completing and interpreting outside-of-class assignments. Therefore, the tutorials are an important part of a multi-faceted approach to teaching statistics and research design from a theoretical and practical perspective with a focus on student demonstration of learning. A primary goal of this proposal is to produce a supplement that will help our students become good consumers of information. We use the scientific method as a guiding principle for our discipline and research endeavors. As such, the student must learn how to: a) generate research hypotheses based on previously reported literature; b) design research studies to test these hypotheses; c) gather, analyze, and interpret the data from the study; and d) disseminate their results in a public forum for peer review. In other words, we are teaching our students about information literacy. These tutorials will aide in this goal, by allowing our students to hone their scientific skills.

List the student learning outcomes and describe how the five Information Literacy Outcomes that will be addressed. Please see above for student learning outcomes

The five Information Literacy Outcomes:

  1. Determines the nature and extent of the information needed. Research Methodology and Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences are inherently interconnected courses. Appropriately chosen research methodology can lead to the use of more powerful statistical analyses. Additionally, non-significant statistical results should lead to an investigation of the research design. Finally, significant results do not necessarily produce meaningful results. These interconnected ideals are not necessarily intuitive, but the proposed tutorials will reinforce lecture material on these topics.
  2. Accesses needed information effectively and efficiently? As a direct result of the proposed tutorials, students will have immediate access to a software program that efficiently produces valuable statistical information. Importantly, the tutorials train the students on the effective use of SPSS and the interpretation of its output.
  3. Evaluates information and its sources critically and incorporates selected information into his or her knowledge base and value system. The tutorials proposed will focus on the rationale of statistical results and how alterations in research design can produce more statistical power. The tutorials will also help to distinguish between statistical significance and the meaningfulness of the result. Many discussions, which are generated in lecture, but which will be demonstrated in tutorials, train the student to be a critical observer of research. Many inappropriate studies and conclusions are offered in the tutorials as a demonstration of the importance of the peer review process and the scientific method in general. As stated above, these tutorials are an important tool in teaching our students

ACCESS to valuable information resources that they can use to further develop their KNOWledge base and continue to learn critical EVALUATive skills while they share their knowledge with others, hopefully to inspire further experimentation (USE). The benefits to Drs. Lloyd, Robertson and Cate come in the form of the production of valuable and innovative curricular products that enhance our teaching effectiveness and teaching portfolio as well as direct monetary support of joint student/faculty scholarship endeavors.