Food for thought (excerpt from Peter Berger's Comments): You can't attain understanding without knowledge, and you can't acquire knowledge without mastering facts. You can't skip the grunt work.... That's true in any discipline. True, grappling with f`acts and turning them into knowledge can be hard work. But reckoning with ignorance is even harder.

Software

SJSU has a site license for the SPSS software and students can obtain a copy of the installation CD from the help desk on the ground floor of Clark Hall.

• SPSS demonstration videos
• SPSS Guide: Information on the statistical procedures covered in this class are provided in this web-based SPSS Guide.
• SPSS Quick Guide

Power Analysis

• GPower software for determination of power and sample size

Testing Proportions

• ztestprogram

Computer Labs on Campus

• The College of Applied Sciences and Arts has a computer lab that is open to majors from any department in CASA.
  • Open Hours & Policies (Has SPSS) Software)
• Clark Hall - Ground Floor (Has SPSS Software)
• Associated Students computer lab; top floor of student union (Might not have SPSS software)
• Washington Square Hall; basement level (Might not have SPSS Software)

Articles

• Odds Are it's Wrong
• Metric Mania
• Research Intro: Why ask Why?
• Research Methods: Who's on First, What's on Second?
• Research Results-Discussion: Do you know the way to San Jose?
• Exercise Phys & the Psyche (issues of internal validity)
• Problem Solving
• Two Hypothesis Testing Concepts
• Stop Avalanche of Low Quality Research
• Learning Styles Myth-Magic?
• The Truth Wears Off - Is there something wrong with the scientific method?
  

Additional Information & Resources

• Evaluating Journal Articles
  • Sample Rubric
  • Article Critique Checklist (from Fullerton web site)
• Ethics in Research: Links to info:
  • University of Washington
  • Resnik Article - What is Ethics?
  • National Academies Press Article
• Graduate Studies & Research
• WorldCat.org WorldCat is a network of library content and services. From WorldCat you can locate information then find out whether our library has the book, journal, article you need.
• SJSU Library
  • WorldCat.org WorldCat is a network of library content and services. From WorldCat you can locate information then find out whether our library has the book, journal, article you need.
  • SJSU Library
    • You can find ebook titles through the library’s main catalog (http://catalog.sjlibrary.org/search/) or by searching each ebook collection individually (http://www.sjlibrary.org/research/sjsuebooks.htm).
      In the library catalog, ebooks will be listed with a red logo.
    • Databases can be found both in the library's online catalog and on the library's Articles and Databases web page at http://libguides.sjsu.edu/a-z.
    • SJSU Online Tutorials
    • CSU Online Tutorials
    • Assignment Calculator. When a student types in the current date and the date the paper is due, the Assignment Calculator determines a schedule of steps and suggests target completion dates. For each step, the tool also describes what the student needs to accomplish and gives instructions on how to get it done. Students can use the Assignment Calculator individually or for group assignments.

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