Vahid Nimehchisalem

Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication

Universiti Putra Malaysia
April, 2015
Materials covered in Test 1
 PowerPoint slides presented in the lectures
 (Weeks 1-7)
 PowerPoint slides presented from Ary et al. (2002)
 pp. 2-16
 pp. 42-52, 98-111
 pp. 66-86
 pp. 162-183
 pp. 275-361
 pp. 375-414
Overview
 Test 1 covers 20% of the total mark
 It contains a combination of different item types:
 Open-ended asking
 Multiple-choice
 True-false
 The test focuses on you ability to
 Define the technical terms related to quantitative research
 Explain key concepts
 Discuss differences between concepts
 Report and interpret SPSS output
Definitions
 MCT
 MD
 Hypothesis
 Scales of measurement
 Normality
 Internal reliability
Concepts
 Inductive and deductive reasoning
 Characteristics of a well-established theory
 Characteristics of a good hypothesis
 Characteristics of effective literature reviews
 Conceptual (constitutive) and operational definitions
 Probability from nonprobability sampling
 Pre- experimental, experimental and quasi-experimental
designs
 Types I and II error
Concepts
 Statistics
 Descriptive vs. Inferential Statistics
 Parametric vs. Non-parametric Statistics
 Normality of distribution
 Skewness and kurtosis
 Kolmogrov-Smirnov and Shapiro-Wilk tests
Concepts
 T-test
 One-sample t-test
 Independent samples t-test
 Paired samples t-test

 One-way ANOVA
 Chi-square
 Goodness of fit test
 Test of independence
Skills
 Reporting and interpreting SPSS outputs for the
following tests:
 Normality of distribution tests
 Reliability test (overall and single item)
 One-sample t-test
 Independent samples t-test
 Paired samples t-test
 One-way ANOVA
 Chi-square