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Assignment: Introduction to Quantitative Analysis
In this week’s Discussion, you determined the benefits of visually
displaying your data. You also learned that different types of data
require different visual displays to adequately “tell the story” of the
phenomena. Although the Discussion was difficult, what is even more
difficult and challenging will be deciding on how best to display the
data for presentation purposes. As you move further along in your
dissertation or doctoral study, you will find that displaying data will
be critical component in presenting a robust and clear capstone project.
This Introduction to Quantitative Analysis Assignment is composed of
three different parts. You will complete each part in Weeks 2, 3, and 4.
You will submit the entire Assignment in Week 4. For this week,
you will explore how to visually display data for optimal use.
Part 1: Displaying the Data
To prepare for this Part 1 of the Assignment: Review this week’s
Learning Resources and consider visual displays of data as well as
displaying data in presentations. Using the SPSS software, open the
Afrobarometer dataset or the High School Longitudinal Study
dataset (whichever you choose) found in this week’s Learning Resources.
From the dataset you chose, choose one categorical and one metric
variable and perform the appropriate visual display for each variable.
Once you visually display each variable, review Chapter 11 of the Wagner
text to understand how to copy and paste your output into your Word
document. For this Part 1 Assignment:
Write a 2- to 3-page analysis of your results and include a copy and
paste of the appropriate visual display of the data into your document.
Use appropriate APA format. Refer to the APA manual for appropriate citation.
No Assignment submission for this week.
By Day 7 of Week 4
Submit your Parts 1, 2, and 3 of this Introduction to Quantitative Analysis Assignment.
Assignment: Introduction to Quantitative Analysis
In Part 2 of this Assignment, you will differentiate between the proper
use of summary statistics for categorical and metric level data. In this
exercise, you will explore what output is provided for each of these
variables and provide some meaning from these statistics for your
reader. The ability to place the statistics into a context that your
reader understands and can make sense of is a highly desirable skill.
For this Part 2 of your Introduction to Quantitative Analysis
Assignment, you will examine the same two variables you used from Part 1
of your Assignment and perform the appropriate descriptive analysis of
the data given.
Part 2: Descriptive Analysis
To prepare for this Part 2 of your Assignment: Review this week’s
Learning Resources and the Central Tendency and Variability media
program. Using the SPSS software, open the Afrobarometer dataset or the
High School Longitudinal Study dataset from your Part 1 of your
Assignment in Week 2. Choose the same two variables you chose from your
Part 1 Assignment and perform the appropriate descriptive analysis of
the data. Once you perform your descriptive analysis, review Chapter 11
of the Wagner text to understand how to copy and paste your output into
your Word document. For this Part 2 Assignment:
Write a 2- to 3-page analysis of your descriptive analysis results and
include a copy and paste your output from your analysis into your final
document.
Use appropriate APA format, citations and referencing. Refer to the APA manual for appropriate citation.
No Assignment submission for this week.
By Day 7 of Week 4 Submit your Parts 1, 2, and 3 of this Assignment.
Assignment: Introduction to Quantitative Analysis
In Part 1, you displayed data based on a categorical variable and metric variable from a specific dataset.
In Part 2, you used the same variables as in Part 1 to perform a descriptive analysis of the data. For this
Part 3 of your Assignment, you will calculate a confidence interval in SPSS for one of the variables from
your Parts 1 and 2.
Part 3: Confidence Intervals
To prepare for this Assignment: Review the Learning Resources related to probability, sampling distributions, and confidence
intervals. Using the SPSS software, open the Afrobarometer dataset or
the High School Longitudinal Study dataset (whichever you chose) from
Week 2. Choose an appropriate variable from Parts 1 and 2 of this
Assignment and calculate a confidence interval in SPSS. Once you perform
your confidence interval, review Chapter 11 of the Wagner text to
understand how to copy and paste your output into your Word document.
For this Part 3 Assignment: Write a 2- to 3-paragraph analysis of your
results and include a copy and paste of the appropriate visual
display of the data into your document.
Use appropriate APA format. Refer to the APA manual for appropriate citation.
Then, for your Final Assignment Submission of Parts 1, 2, and 3:
Based on the results of your data in Parts 1, 2, and 3 of this Assignment, provide a brief explanation of
what the implications for social change might be.
Use appropriate APA format. Refer to the APA manual for appropriate citation.
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