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Spring, 2009 4:00-6:45 p.m. Tuesday, WRB 3006

Cleborne D. Maddux, Ph.D.
Foundation Professor
Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology
775-682-5509; FAX: 775-784-1990
Office Hours - Tuesday, 9-11a.m., Wednesday, 2-4 p.m.
maddux@unr.edu

College of Education
The University of Nevada, Reno

visits to this site since January 22, 1999.

UNR CATALOG COURSE DESCRIPTION: Second course designed for students planning to contribute research findings of their own design. Refinement of inferential statistical methods introduced in CEP440. Prerequisite: CEP440 or 640 or equivalent.

In addition, the course is intended to contribute to the more general goals of the college, which include helping students integrate knowledge and skills to formulate a systematic and personalized approach and style that reflects (1) a strong fund of knowledge, (2) respect for democracy and multiculturalism, (3) love of learning, and (4) a commitment to reflective practice.

Textbooks

Recommended: Use, as a reference, whatever book you used for your last statistics class. I like the Sprinthall book we use in cep640.

Required: Assorted assigned readings, primarily on the World Wide Web, plus handouts and assigned Websites.

Required: Green, S.B., & Salkind, N.J. (2008). Using SPSS for Windows and Macintosh & SPSS 14.0 Windows Student Pack (5th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. ISBN:0-132-30542-9. If you want to be able to do homework at home, you will need the SPSS for Students package. If you want to use our lab to do homework, you could get by without it. If you have an older version of the Green/Salkind book or the SPSS program, that will be fine. Do not buy the updated version unless you just want to have it.

TEXTBOOK ALERT!! - You can purchase both SPSS for Students Version 14, AND the Green and Salkind textbook above, cheaper than buying SPSS for Students by itself! The bookstore has the Green and Salkind book shrinkwrapped with SPSS. If you purchase the Green and Salkind text from the Web, it will not include the SPSS for Students software.

The above package includes the student version of SPSS for WINDOWS. Because it is a student version, (a) it is limited to 50 variables and 1,500 cases, (b) does not include routines for repeated measures ANOVA, and (c) does not have the ability to use SPSS scripts. There is also a graduate version of this software that is not limited in these ways, is better in a few other respects, but is significantly more expensive - it costs $199.00. Visit the Computer Den in the bookstore to purchase.

The full professional version of the SPSS for WINDOWS software is installed on about 32 of the computers in our COE Computer Lab (some in each room), and you are welcome to use these machines. If you want to run the SPSS for WINDOWS programs from home, however, you will need to purchase the package identified above in the bookstore. The student version is on the shelf for this course, shrinkwrapped with the Green and Salkind text.

USING SPSS FOR FREE ON THE LIBRARY SERVER

It is possible to run SPSS for free on a server that belongs to the UNR library. This is somewhat cumbersome however, and you can only do it if you are working from a computer with an Internet connection. Before it will run, you must first download a driver from the library site and install it on the computer you are using (a one-time task) - there is a link to get the driver, called an ICA WEB CLIENT on the Website at https://apollo.library.unr.edu/Citrix/MetaFrame/auth/login.aspx ). NOTE - When prompted when you install it, be sure to elect FULL ACCESS, and ASK ME EVERYTIME..

Also, getting a printout can be a problem. Try printing out as always. If that works, fine. Here is how to take advantage of this resource, and a way to print if regular printing does not work:

1. Login with your NetID account name and password at https://apollo.library.unr.edu/Citrix/MetaFrame/auth/login.aspx.
2. Scroll down the list of software until you find SPSS and open it.
3. You can then enter data and run analyses in the same way you would if you had the software installed on your computer.
4. To get a printout, the procedure is sometimes awkward. Try printing out as usual. If it doesn't work, it is probably because you did not choose FULL ACCESS and ASK ME EVERYTIME when you installed it. In that case, uninstall and install it again. If regular printing does not then work, here is what to do:
     a. With the material you want to printout on the screen, click EDIT and SELECT ALL. Boxes will appear around everything on the screen.
     b. Now click EDIT and COPY OBJECTS (Not simply COPY) .
     c. Now, without closing SPSS, open a word processor such as MICROSOFT WORD.
     d. In WORD, click on EDIT and PASTE. The material will then be pasted into WORD.
     e. Print out the material from WORD in the usual way.

ATTENTION MAC USERS

There is no student version of the SPSS program for a Macintosh computer. So, what are your options if you are a Mac user? There is a so-called GRADUATE PACK for the Macintosh. It costs $199 - see the Computer Den in the UNR bookstore to order it. You can also purchase it online. Here is what the SPSS Web site says about purchasing the GRADUATE PACK for the Macintosh:

"Your campus bookstore may order copies of the SPSS Graduate Pack directly from SPSS Inc. Students have the option to purchase the SPSS Graduate Pack on-line at www.journeyed.com, www.academicsuperstore.com, www.studentdiscounts.com, or lease a copy for 6 or 12 months at www.e-academy.com."

I tried the second link above (the academic superstore) at http://www.academicsuperstore.com/market/marketdisp.html?PartNo=819989&qk_srch=spss and found it listed for $199.00. In the past, some students have found it used on Ebay or Amazon.com for a cheaper price.

Another possibility is to run it from the library server (See the section above titled USING SPSS FOR FREE ON THE LIBRARY SERVER.) Be sure to first download the driver for use on a Macintosh, then follow the instructions above. The library server can be found at:

https://apollo.library.unr.edu/Citrix/MetaFrame/auth/login.aspx

Please direct questions to: maddux@unr.edu
URL of this document: http://www.scs.unr.edu/~maddux/cep740/cep740b.html