Graded Homework

Do you feel you can complete this assignment. If so, must follow “APA” 6^th edition chapter 5 to complete this assignment. Also, in text citation must be included in the paper. All references must be from 2013 and above. Please properly format references. Please include doi where assigned in references. No plagiarism – thanks much

Application: Analyzing SPSS (PASW) Software: Part 1

For this assignment you use SPSS (PASW) software and learn to properly munipulate data according the APA requirements. This is an important skill and will be a major factor in future assignments in this course, your doctoral studies and dissertation. It is strongly encouraged that you review Chapter 5 of the APA Publication Manual to understand table and figure requirements before starting.

Follow the directions for using SPSS (PASW) in this assignment:

You will then write a 3-4 page paper in which you present your table and an analysis of your findings. Keep in mind that you cannot draw conclusions without further testing. Instead identify notable trends, patterns, relationships, associations, etc. Your paper must meet the following requirements:

Include an opening including thesis statement, body and conclusion.

Include a properly stated research question

Include a properly formatted null and alternative hypotheses

Follow APA (American Psychological Association) style and include in-text citations and a separate references page

Developing a PASW Table

• Open the Main Dataset file on the Resources page and IMPORT (easier) the data into PASW, making sure to only import the range from A1 to J52 on the Excel worksheet
• Save the file to your computer under a unique name
• Open the file and ensure all data are included on the PASW file. Eliminate extraneous variables, usually in the column headers as V11, V12, etc.
• Convert all decimal data to have a fixed length of three decimal points
• Expand fields as necessary to ensure the names of the variables (top row) can be seen
• Using the Analyze > Descriptive Statistics > Descriptive command, select all data and move them Variables(s) section.
• Click Options and make sure that Mean, Std Deviation, Variance, Range, Minimum, Maximum, S.E. Mean, and Variable List are checked
• Click Continue and then OK
• Copy and Paste the table (Descriptive Statistics) to a Microsoft Word document and manually manipulate it to conform to APA 6^th edition requirements.
• Open the Week1Notes.xls and study the notes explaining the columns in the table