[...]... environment and be able to navigate your way around it; have gained some experience of undertaking simple analyses with SPSS; be able to save a dataset and also the output of the analyses you have undertaken Understanding what a dataset is At the heart of quantitative data analysis is the dataset A dataset is actually just an array of numbers organized into rows and columns Perhaps the best way to explain it... 6.16 A1 .1 A1 .2 A1 .3 A1 .4 A1 .5 A1 .6 A1 .7 A2 .1 A2 .2 A2 .3 A2 .4 A2 .5 A2 .6 A2 .7 A2 .8 A2 .9 One-Sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test window in SPSS Running an Independent-Samples T Test in SPSS Running a one-way ANOVA in SPSS Correlation between the ages of a young child’s mother and father from the earlychildhood.sav dataset Two-Related-Samples Tests window in SPSS Paired-Samples T Test window in SPSS Examples... half of which attended an after-schools Reading Club and the other half attended an after-schools combined Reading and Drama Club Two measures were taken of the children at the start of the school year and then again at the end: a standardized reading score and also a rating of how much they said they liked reading international.sav This dataset contains data taken from the website of the United Nations... book the emphasis is upon learning the key concepts and skills associated with quantitative data analysis through practice and the use of real-life and high-quality educational datasets The datasets to be used include large-scale national datasets from surveys in America and the UK and a brief summary of each is provided in Box 0.1 All of these can be accessed and downloaded from the companion website... Define Variable Type: window as it appears in SPSS Version 9.0 and earlier Define Missing Values: window as it appears in SPSS Version 9.0 and earlier Define Labels: window as it appears in SPSS Version 9.0 and earlier Define Column Format: window as it appears in SPSS Version 9.0 and earlier The main screen showing a variable that has been defined as it appears in SPSS Version 9.0 and earlier The initial clustered... data; including data derived from large, national and international datasets; the ability to summarize data, not just in relation to the production of appropriate summary statistics but also in relation to the display of those data in tables, bar charts, scatterplots or using a range of other graphical techniques; the ability to use your data from a sample to generalize about the wider population from... quantitative data analysis that makes this book particularly distinctive Partly reflecting my own critical past (and present) perspective, as well as my sociological background, there are three key messages in particular that run throughout the chapters to follow Quantitative data are not better than qualitative data While talk of mixed-method designs has now become very fashionable in educational research... seen as detective work with an emphasis being placed on gaining as much information about the data and how they are distributed as possible This, in turn, places a particular emphasis on the use of graphical methods to display the data in as many different ways and formats as possible so as to gain a true feel for what is going on and also to see the unexpected With this in mind, and as Hartwig and Dearing... confidence intervals added Standardized distributions illustrating one- and two-tailed tests Running a Chi-Square test in SPSS Creating a 2 ϫ 2 contingency table in SPSS Defining categories for the variable “SEGRADES” as “Missing” in SPSS Running a Mann-Whitney U test in SPSS Running a Kruskal-Wallis test in SPSS Distribution of the “gcse” variable in the valueadded.sav dataset 118 119 121 122 123 124... 6.5 6.6 TableLooks window in SPSS Cutting and pasting a table directly into a report Altering the order of rows in a table in SPSS Cell Properties window in SPSS Comparison of a clustered bar chart and a stacked bar chart as means of displaying gender differences in school grades achieved by young children in America Clustered bar chart as it first appears in SPSS, comparing the school grades achieved . bullying dataset as it appears in SPSS 15 1.2 Save As window 17 1.3 Opening SPSS in Windows XP 18 1.4 SPSS 15.0 for Windows window in SPSS 19 1.5 Open Data window 19 1.6 Options window in SPSS. experiment.sav dataset 228 6.16 Linear Regression window in SPSS 230 A1 .1 The main data view window as it appears in SPSS Version 9.0 and earlier 247 A1 .2 Define Variable window as it appears in. variables 43 Displaying and summarizing nominal and ordinal variables 62 Conclusions 66 3 Analyzing relationships between variables 68 Introduction 68 Preparing variables and the dataset for analysis