Schedule of Topics and Assignments
Tentative Schedule of Topics and Assignments
Week
Complete
By
3
Tuesday
Sept. 4
Thurs.
Sept. 6
4
Tuesday
Sept. 11
Thurs.
Sept. 13
5
6
Tuesday
Sept. 18
Reading Assignment (Includes the Test Your Understanding in the Workbook)
Activities
1– Exploring and Analyzing Research Data (Workbook: pgs. 5 – 8)
2– Scientific Method: An Overview (Workbook: pgs. 9 – 12)
Systematic Observation; Workbook: pgs. 27 – 34)
2– Scientific Method: Theory (Workbook: pgs. 13 – 14)
Hypothesis (Workbook: pgs. 15 – 26)
Putting the Three Components Together (Workbook: pgs. 35-37)
2 – Scientific Method: Samples and Populations (Workbook: pgs. 38 – 40)
Hypothesis Testing (Workbook: pgs. 41 – 42)
[1] – Levels of Measurement in SPSS (SPSS Basics: pgs. 1 – 5)
[2] – Entering and Saving a Set of Scores (Scale Variable; SPSS Basics: pgs. 7 - 14)
3 – Measurement (Workbook: pgs. 43 – 47)
4 – Using Graphs and Tables to Communicate Information (Describing a Single
Variable: Nominal and Ordinal Data; Workbook: pgs. 49 – 61)
[3] – Frequency Distribution (SPSS Basics: pgs. 17 – 24)
4 – Using Graphs and Tables to Communicate Information (Describing A Single
Variable: Scale Data; Workbook: pgs. 62 - 84)
[4] – Histogram (SPSS Basics: pgs. 29 – 38)
Thursday
Sept. 20
5 – Measures of Central Tendency
Tuesday
Sept. 25
6 – Measures of Variability: Scale Data
Thurs.
Sept. 27
[6] – Mean, Median, and Mode: One Group, Two Scale… (SPSS Basics: pgs. 49 – 64)
[7] – Mean and Standard Deviation: Two or More Groups… (SPSS Basics: pgs. 67 – 78)
Quiz #1… Due Tuesday by 11pm
Practice Set 1 (Listed on Blackboard)
Practice Set 2 (Listed on Blackboard)
Quiz #2… Due Tuesday by 11pm
Practice Set 3 (Listed on Blackboard)
Quiz #3… Due Tuesday by 11pm
Practice Set 4 (Listed on Blackboard)
Take the Practice Exam to prepare for Exam #1
Exam #1 takes place during week #7
Practice Sets 1 – 4 are due at that time as
part of the Pass/Fail Take Home Portion
Tentative Schedule of Topics and Assignments
Week
7
Complete
By
Tuesday
Oct. 2
Thurs.
Oct. 4
8
9
Tuesday
Oct. 9
Review Session
Creating Reports:
7 – Application: Reporting Descriptive Statistics for Nominal and Ordinal Data
8 – Application: Reporting Descriptive Statistics for Scale Data)
9 – Symbols
10 – Formulas
11 – Standard Scores
Thurs.
Oct. 11
11 – Standard Scores
12 – Standard Scores: Area Under the Curve & Percentages
Tuesday
Oct. 16
13 – Standard Scores: Percentile Rank
14 – Standard Scores: Calculating the Comparable Value in Another Distribution
Thurs.
Oct. 18
10
Reading Assignment (Includes the Test Your Understanding in the Workbook)
Tuesday
Oct. 23
Thurs.
Oct. 25
Activities
Exam #1 This Week @ Proctored Testing Center
Practice Sets 1 - 4 are due as the
Pass/Fail Take Home Portion of Exam #1
Quiz #4… Due Tuesday by 11pm
Quiz #5… Due Tuesday by 11pm
[9] – Scattergram (SPSS Basics: pgs. 89 – 106)
[10] – Correlation Coefficients: The Pearson r and Spearman’s rho
(SPSS Basics: pgs. 107 – 114)
Creating Reports:
15 – Application: Evaluating and Reporting a Correlation Between Two Variables
Practice Set 5 (Listed on Blackboard)
16 – Linear Regression: Simple Predictions
& The Coefficient of Determination (r2)
Test #1:
Covers Workbook Chapters 7 – 15…
Due Sunday by 11pm
Quiz # 6… Due Tuesday by 11pm
Exam #2 takes place during week #11
Practice Set 5 is due at that time as part of
the Pass/Fail Take Home Portion
Tentative Schedule of Topics and Assignments
Week
Complete
By
Reading Assignment (Includes the Test Your Understanding in the Workbook)
Activities
11
Oct. 30
Thurs.
Nov. 1
12
13
14
17 – Probability
Practice Set 5 is due as the
Pass/Fail Take Home Portion of Exam #2
17 – Probability
18 – Distribution of Sample Means
Thurs.
Nov. 8
18 – Distribution of Sample Means
19 – Hypothesis Testing
Quiz #7… Due Tuesday by 11pm
Quiz #8… Due Tuesday by 11pm
Tuesday
Nov. 13
19 – Hypothesis Testing
Thurs.
Nov. 15
20 – Analyzing and Writing up Results: Single Sample t Test
Tuesday
Nov. 20
20 – Analyzing and Writing up Results: Single Sample t Test
[11] – The t Test for a Single Sample Mean (SPSS Basics: pgs. 115 - 122)
Thurs.
Nov. 22
21 – Analyzing and Writing up Results: Confidence Intervals
Tuesday
Nov. 27
22 – Analyzing and Writing up Results: Paired Sample t Test
[12] – Paired-Samples t Test (SPSS Basics: pgs. 123 - 132)
Thurs.
Nov. 29
23 – Analyzing and Writing up Results: Independent Samples t
[13] – Independent-Samples t Test (SPSS Basics: pgs. 133 – 146)
Tuesday
Dec. 4
24 – Analyzing and Writing up Results: ANOVA
[14] – One-Way ANOVA (SPSS Basics: pgs. 147 - 154)
Thurs.
Dec. 6
Finals
Week
Exam #2 This Week @ Proctored Testing Center
Tuesday
Nov. 6
15
16
Review Session
25 –Chi-Square Goodness of Fit
[15] – Chi-Square Goodness of Fit (SPSS Basics: pgs. 155- 164)
26 – Selecting the Right Inferential Statistic or Method
Quiz #9… Due Tuesday by 11pm
Practice Set 6 (Listed on Blackboard)
Test #2:
Covers Workbook Ch. 17 – 20…
Due Sunday by 11pm
Practice Set 7 (Listed on Blackboard)
Quiz #10… Due Tuesday by 11pm
Practice Set 8 (Listed on Blackboard)
Quiz #11… Due Sunday by 11pm
Practice Set 9 (Listed on Blackboard)
Take the Practice Exam to prepare for the Final Exam
Final Exam This Week @ Proctored Testing Center
Must be completed by Friday
Practice Sets 6 - 9 are due as the Pass/Fail Take Home Portion of the Final Exam