The work samples here are from the EDS255 course. This course is one of the core foundational courses in the Ph.D in Education. program. The course is designed to introduce more advanced and sophisticated quantitative skills following completion of EDS254 Introduction to Quantitative Methods.
This assignment is one of the weekly tasks in the course. Students asked to use the skills that they have learned during the week and apply that quantitative method to a dataset. The Analysis Memo is a scaffolded guide to help students capture key steps in the analysis process;
questions and hypothesis about the data
the settings needed in the analysis application to perform the test
reporting results in formal APA format
sharing the output from the application
discussion about the implications of the results in context with the data setting
Analysis Task: Advanced Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
The purpose of writing an analysis memo is to keep all your analyses organized and to have written documentation of all the analysis you do. This way you will know what paths you went down, which ones lead to interesting places, and you will have the writing to include in your dissertation/paper when needed. The analysis memo represents the work you have done on individual parts of your data. Often the memos can be done more quickly and then reviewed together to provide a broader picture of your data.
This memo will deal with one of our new ANOVA statistics methods (Factorial, ANCOVA, or MANOVA).
Open the data in SPSS.
Using ANOVA tab, explore the data.
Complete the analysis memo by entering your work into the table for each section. There are five (5) sections to complete.
When stating any method used in the analysis, be specific, i.e. state ANOVA method was used.