EDUR 8331
Applied Measurement

Topic: Measurement Introduction and Statistics Refresher

1. Start Here: Summary Presentations

• Document: Course Overview, Measurement, and Variables (Video: Overview, Measurement, and Variables 48 minutes)

• Document: Basic Statistical Concepts and SPSS (Video: Basic Statistical Concepts and SPSS 39 minutes)

  • JASP video (alternative to SPSS): JASP Data Entry, Descriptive Statistics, Frequencies, and Graphical Displays (same data as in Basics Statistical Concepts and SPSS above)

  • Note: JASP can open SPSS files directly. This is illustrated in the Pearson Correlation video below.

• Document: Pearson Correlation and SPSS (Video: Pearson Correlation and SPSS 21 minutes)

  • JASP video: Pearson Correlation with JASP (same data as in Pearson Correlation and SPSS video above)

2. Readings

• From the textbook
  • Van Blerkom, Chapter 1 Introduction to Measurement (linked PDF of chapter 1)
  • Van Blerkom, Chapter 18 The Language and Logic of Statistics (linked PDF of chapter 18)
  • Van Blerkom, Chapter 19 Frequency Distributions and Graphs
  • Van Blerkom, Chapter 20 Central Tendency: What is a Typical Score?
  • Van Blerkom, Chapter 21 Variability: How Spread Out Are the Scores?
  • Alternative material if you don't have the textbook (from my course EDUR 8131 Introductory Statistics)
    • Descriptive Statistics, Frequency Distributions, and Graphs (equivalent of Van Blerkom chapters 19, 20, and 21)
  • Pearson Correlation
  • Two-group t-test
• SPSS Tutorials
  •  Material from EDUR 8131 Introduction to Educational Statistics: SPSS Tutorials

3. Non-graded Activity - complete if you need practice with correlation and t-test. Perform analyses of data found below to ensure your findings match those provided in the answers.

• Correlation (answers)
• One and Two Samples t-test (answers; work only with items 1 and 4; items 2 and 3 are one-sample t-test)