Assessment Class
Statistical software used in class.
What is SPSS?
A way to calculate how items or questions on a survey "clump" to one another.
What is Factor Analysis?
Has an Absolute Zero.
What are ratio data?
Chi-Square Test for 2x3 table to determine practical significance.
What is Pearson Chi-Square?
Least conservative test, not a drug
Name of the data file used in your homework
What is Nelson Mandela University Student Experience Survey 2018MODIFIED.sav?
Saying something is statistically significant when it is not.
What is a Type I Error?
Rank ordered data
What are ordinal data?
Used to determine if equal variance is assumed between groups in the independent variable
What is Levene's Test?
Used with unequal sample sizes
What is Scheffes?
a variable that stands alone and is not changed by other variables
What is Independent?
Not saying something is statistically significant when it is.
What is a Type II Error?
Categorize objects or "name them"
What are categorical data?
Increased by running lots of independent samples t-tests
What is Type I Error?
Used with equal sample sizes
What is Tukey?
a variable that depends on other factors or variables
What is dependent?
The overall consistency of a measure
What is reliability?
Differences between measures.
What are continuous data?
Compares if only two groups differ on a dependent variable
What is independent samples t-test
Used when violation of homogeneity of variance
What is Games Howell?
Refers to variables relating to adjustment, motivation, and student perceptions
What are noncognitive variables?
The extent to which scores from a measure accurately assess what they are supposed to
What is validity?
In SPSS, interval data are coded as...
What is Scale?
Used to determine differences b/n two groups but with multiple dependent variables
What is MANOVA (Hotellings Trace Test)?
Adjustment made to sig value when multiple tests are run.
What is a Bonferroni Adjustment?