What is “due” for Assignment #4? – SPSS Study One Data File
Step One: Download the three “main questionnaires” and “researcher instructions” from Canvas. Read the researcher instructions carefully
Step Two: Find three participants to complete the three main questionnaires (one participant per survey). Hold onto those completed questionnaires. You will NOT actually turn in these surveys, but you will need them to help you complete your SPSS data file
Step Three: You will have a lab presentation that teaches you how to set up an SPSS file and how to enter data. Look for the lab session on your course schedule. During that lab session, have your completed three surveys with you. After you learn how to set up your SPSS file, you will enter the data from your three surveys into SPSS.
Step Four: After your lab session, save your SPSS with data from your three main questionnaires. Your file should automatically end with the file extension .sav (for example, you can name it “Study One SPSS Data.sav”)
Step Five: Upload your SPSS data file (your .sav file) to Canvas. This is the file / assignment that we will grade (5 points for the upload). Then your work for the assignment is done!
Step Six: Before the lab where you will analyze your data for your Paper II, your instructor will merge the SPSS files from all students in your section into one final SPSS file. Your three participants will thus be added to the participants that other students collected, resulting in an SPSS data file with over 100 participants / respondents. You will use this “Final” SPSS data file to run statistics. This is important, as the statistics we will run require a large number of study participants. You cannot run t-Tests, ANOVAs, or chi squares on data with only a single participant per condition, which is why we are combining all participants into one large sample! Before the lab where you will analyze your data for Paper II, your teacher will combine all of the SPSS files from the students in your section into one final SPSS file. So, your three participants will be added to the participants that other students collected, making an SPSS data file with more than 100 participants/respondents. You will run statistics with this “Final” SPSS data file. This is important because the statistics we will run need a lot of people to take part in the study. You can’t do t-tests, ANOVAs, or chi squares on data with only one participant per condition. That’s why we’re putting all the participants into one big sample!
There are several documents in this folder. If you are curious about exactly what you need to do for your assignment points, download and read the “What is Due” instructions below.
What is Due – Assignment #4 Instructions (Download)
Research Study Survey Materials and Instructions: Make sure to read the Researcher Instructions below before you collect data from your three participants. It walks you through what you need to do as a researcher and explains the variables used in your study. The instructions also include information about your study predictions. Then, download and print out the three “Main Questionnaires” and have participants complete them
Researcher Instructions – Social Loafing Study (Download)
Main Questionnaire – Individual Total Condition (Download and Print)
Main Questionnaire – Group Total Condition (Download and Print)
Main Questionnaire – Group Average Condition (Download and Print)
When you upload your “assignment”, you will upload an SPSS file (it has a .sav tag at the end). Keep that in mind!
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Covid Concerns? Use the materials below
Are you concerned about collecting data in person because of Covid? If yes (and ONLY if yes), then you can use the “Covid Alternative” documents below. Note that you still need to upload your SPSS file with your three surveys, but you will not collect data face-to-face (For our study validity, it is better if you use the main questionnaires above, BUT the Covid alternative surveys below are available if you cannot collect data in person).
Covid Instructions – Social Loafing Study
(Read these Covid instructions for more information, but also read the researcher instructions above as well – There is important information in that instruction document)
Main Questionnaire – Individual Total Condition (Covid Alternative – Download and Print)
Main Questionnaire – Group Total Condition (Covid Alternative – Download and Print)
Main Questionnaire – Group Average Condition (Covid Alternative – Download and Print)
