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Read from the course text, Statistics for the Behavioral & Social Sciences :
· Chapter 8: Correlation
· Chapter 9: Linear Regression
Websites
The Critical Thinking Community (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. (http://www.criticalthinking.org)
· This website teaches and promotes the main tenets of critical thinking. There are some excellent articles that can help you better understand what critical thinking is and how to utilize it in everyday life.
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Recommended Resources
Article
Kirwan, J., Lounsbury, J., Gibson, L. (2010). Self-direction in learning and personality: The Big Five and narrow personality traits in relation to learner self-direction . International Journal of Self-Directed Learning, 7(2), 21-34. Retrieved from http://sdlglobal.com/IJSDL/IJSDL7.2-2010.pdf#page=25
· This is an article about personality, self-directed learning, and scale development and the major traits that may affect them. These include: agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and openness. It incorporates correlation and regression procedures with tables that display the statistical results.
Stark, P.B. (2013). Chapter 9: Regression (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. Retrieved from http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~stark/SticiGui/Text/regression.htm
· This website contains several video lectures and examples of how regression is used.
Trochim, W. M. (2006). Correlation (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. In Research Methods Knowledge Base. Retrieved from http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/statcorr.php
· This website contains many tutorials and tools for statistical analyses and methods used in the social sciences. This particular page is a detailed description, with examples and graphs, to help understand correlation statistics.
Websites
VassarStats: Website for Statistical Computation (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. (http://vassarstats.net/)
· This website includes tools to calculate many of the statistical tests we cover in this course including t-tests, ANOVA, correlation, and regression. Each calculator includes a tutorial and/or walkthrough.
Web Center for Social Research Methods (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. (http://socialresearchmethods.net/)
· This website includes links to numerous tools and tutorials relating to statistical concepts, calculations, and scale development.