Section 1: Histograms and Visual Interpretation
Refer to your Assessment 1 instructions for a list of assigned Section 1 variables. The example variable final is shown below.
Step 1. Open grades.sav in SPSS.
![Screenshot of SPSS showing Open Data dialog box with grades.sav selected in the File name box.]()
Step 2. On the
Graphs menu, point to
Legacy Dialogs and click Histogram…
![Screenshot with Graphs menu, Legacy Dialogs, and Histogram selected.]()
Step 3. In the Histogram dialog box:
First, select your assigned variable for Assessment 1. Move it to the
Variable box. The example of final appears below.
Second, select
Display normal curve.
Third, move gender to the Rows box.
Fourth, click OK to generate the histogram output.
![Histogram dialog box with Display Normal Curve selected.]()
Step 4. The histogram output appears in SPSS. Copy your SPSS output. To do this, right-click on the image and then click Copy.
![Histogram output image with right-click menu open and Copy selected.]()
Step 5. Open a new Word document and right-click for the paste options. Paste the histogram output into the Word document. Below the histograms, write up your visual interpretations as described in your Assessment 1.
Section 2: Calculate and Interpret Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion
Refer to the Assessment 1 instructions for a list of assigned Section 2 variables. The example variable final is shown below.
Step 1. On the
Analyze menu, point to Descriptive Statistics and click
Descriptives…
![SPSS Statistics Data Editor screen shot, with Analyze menu, Descriptive Statistics, and Descriptives selected.]()
Step 2. In the Descriptives dialog box:
First, select your Assessment 1 variables. Move them to the
Variable(s) box. The example variable final is shown below.
![Descriptives dialog box with final selected in the Variable(s) box.]()
Second, click the
Options button.
Third, select
Mean, Std. deviation,
Kurtosis, and Skewness. For Display Order, select Variable list.
Fourth, click Continue and then click OK. The descriptives output is generated in SPSS for your Assessment 1 variables.
![Descriptives: Options dialog box, showing check boxes selected for Mean, Std. deviation, Kurtosis, and Skewness and the option button selected for Variable list.]()
Step 3. Copy the descriptive statistics output and paste it into your Word document. Below the output, write up your analyses as described in the Assessment 1 instructions.
![Screenshot of Descriptive Statistics output in table form with right-click menu open and Copy selected.]()
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