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¡@ Course Description and Objectives
This course is designed primarily to familiarize you with the basic concepts of research design and statistics and to enable you to conduct researches with quantitative methods and to analyze data by hand and also by using a personal computer.
Class Procedures
The class will be conducted mostly in the form of lectures and discussions, and times will be set aside for familiarizing you with spss. You are expected to do all the assignments and to work out statistical problems by hand first and then on computer. As a requirement for this course, you are to conduct a quantitative study on a topic of your own choice and to hand in the report at the end of the semester. There will be no midterm or final exams.
Textbook and Reference Book
Hatch-Farhady. Research Design and Statistics for Applied Linguistics. Taipei: The Crane Publishing Company. (Textbook) Woods-Fletcher-Hughes. Statistics in Language Studies. Cambridge University Press, 1993. (Reference book)
Course Topics
[1] Introduction and orientation: research and statistics [2] How to construct research designs: (a) What is research? (b) What are variables? (c) Research design and format of research paper [3] How to write a term paper and a research report [4] Simple numerical computations and displaying and describing of data [5] Introduction to spss: how to enter and save data, how to create new variables, how to do calculation, and how to make various graphs [6] Standardized scores: z scores and t scores [7] Probability and hypothesis testing [8] Distribution of means [9] Distribution of means and differences between means [10] Comparing two means: t-tests and one-way anova [11] Factorial designs and anova [12] Chi-Square [13] Implicational scaling [14] Correlational analysis [15] Linear Regression ¡@ ¡@ |
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