This is an intermediate, applied course covering a range of the most commonly used statistical procedures. Research design, Experimental, Quasi-Experimental and Non-Experimental, will be covered so students can select the best design and statistical procedure for a research project, and to clarify exactly what claims can be made in relation to findings. It aims to provide participants with an ability to understand, run and interpret procedures. This course will further enhance your ability to understand research-based literature.

The level falls between ‘Fundamentals of Statistics’, and the more detailed single procedure based courses. This course will provide a good foundation for progression to the more detailed courses in (Multiple) Regression, Factor Analysis, SEM and Latent Variables using Mplus. On completing this course you should be able to read and understand literature where these procedures are reported, select the appropriate statistical procedure for research, run the procedure, and report the results from an informed base of understanding.

The course is taught from an applied prospective, with questions encouraged. The statistical package employed will be SPSS. No prior knowledge of SPSS is required.

Participants should have an understanding of elementary statistics equivalent to the syllabus of Fundamentals of Statistics (see ACSPRI website for details). This lab based course requires students to follow instruction in running and interpreting a range of statistical procedures. It is assumed that participants will have little or no familiarity with at least some of the procedures presented.

The statistical package employed will be SPSS. No prior knowledge of SPSS is required.

This is an intermediate, applied course covering a range of the most commonly used statistical procedures. It aims to provide participants with an ability to understand, run and interpret these procedures. This course will further enhance your ability to understand research based literature where these procedures were employed.

Your own computer
Access to Zoom
A copy of SPSS