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Smart Lab Lesson

The

SMARTLab

is a self-paced, online basic statistics course designed to prepare you for your graduate courses and graduate research. You will use the online primer in addition to this classroom to complete the following lessons.

Access both through the following links:

• Constellation: Carruthers, M. W., Maggard, M. (2012). SmartLab: A Statistics Primer. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc.

SMARTLab

This week, complete the SmartLab Integrated Practice Set.

Assignment Requirements

Complete all components of the Integrated Practice Set. You may retake the post-tests as many times as you need to earn at least 80%. Once you achieve 80% on the post-tests for each lesson, submit a screen shot of your grading summary.

You also need to include a brief (no more than 350 words) analysis of what you learned from the exercises, what areas you found most difficult, what insights you gained or how you might apply what you learned. Be certain to include a title page with your name, date, instructor, and course title/section. 

Resources

Required Text

Sukal, M. (2019). Research methods: Applying statistics in research. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc.

Chapter 6: Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)

Chapter 7: Dependent t-tests and Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance

SMARTLab Tests: The SMARTLab is a self-paced, online basic statistics course designed to prepare you for your graduate courses and graduate research.

Integrated Practice Set

Required References

Coughlan, M., Cronan, P., & Ryan, F. (2007). Step-by-step guide to critiquing research. Part 1: Quantitative research. British Journal of Nursing, 16 (11), 658-663. Retrieved from:http://www.unm.edu/~unmvclib/cascade/handouts/critiquingresearchpart1 (Links to an external site.)

Recommended References

American Psychological Association (2010). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Washington, D.C.: Author.

Cengage Learning (2005). Research Methods Workshops. Available from: http://www.wadsworth.com/psychology_d/templates/student_resources/workshops/resch_wrk.html (Links to an external site.)

APA Style, Between versus Within Designs, Controls, Ethical Issues, Evaluating Published Research, Experimental Methods, Getting Ideas for a Study, Operational Definitions, Reliability and Validity, Sampling Methods, Specifying Constructs, True Experiments

Cengage Learning (2005). Statistics Workshops. Available from: http://www.wadsworth.com/psychology_d/templates/student_resources/workshops/stats_wrk.html (Links to an external site.)

One-Way ANOVA, Statistical Power

Khan Academy (Producer). (2011). Statistics. Available from https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability (Links to an external site.)

ANOVA 1 – Calculating SST (Total Sum of Squares), ANOVA 2 – Calculating SSW and SSB (Total Sum of Squares Within and Between), ANOVA 3 – Hypothesis Test with F-Statistic

Neill, J. (2010). ANOVA II. University of Canberra. Available from: http://www.slideshare.net/jtneill/anova-part-ii (Links to an external site.)

Online Stat Book (2008). Retrieved from Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics Web site: One-way ANOVA: http://onlinestatbook.com/stat_sim/one_way/index.html (Links to an external site.)

Online Stat Book (2008). Retrieved from Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics Web site: Robustness: http://onlinestatbook.com/stat_sim/robustnes