DISCUSSION ASSIGNMENT NSTRUCTIONS I WEEK5
The student will complete 8 short-answer discussions in this course and 1 long-answer
Integrating Faith and Learning discussion In the thread for each short-answer discussion the .
student will post short answers to the prompted questions The answers must demonstrate .
course-related knowledge and support their assertions with scholarly citations in the latest APA
format. Minimum word count for all short answers cumulatively is 200 words. The minimum
word count for Integrating Faith and Learning discussion is 600 words. For each thread the
student must include a title block with your name, class title, date, and the discussion forum
number; write the question number and the question title as a level one heading (e.g. D1.1
Variables) and then provide your response; use Level Two headings for multi part questions (e.g.
D1.1 & D1.1.a, D1.1.b, etc.), and include a reference section.
The student must then post 1 reply to another student’s post. The reply must summarize the
student’s findings and indicate areas of agreement, disagreement, and improvement. It must be
supported with scholarly citations in the latest APA format and corresponding list of references.
The minimum word count for Integrating Faith and Learning discussion reply is 250 words.
D.5.7.1 In Output 7.1: (a) What do the terms “count” and “expected count” mean? (b) What does the
dierence between them tell you?
D.5.7.2 In Output 7.1: (a) Is the (Pearson) chi-square stascally signicant? Explain what it means. (b)
Are the expected values in at least 80% of the cells ≥ 5? How do you know? Why is this important?
D.5.7.3 in output D.5.7.2: (a) how is the risk rao calculated? What does it tell you? (b) how is the
odds rao calculated and what does that tell you? (c) how could informaon about the odds rao be
useful to people wanng to know the praccal importance of research results? (d) what are some of
the limitaons of the odds rao as an effect size measure?
D.5.7.4 Because father’s and mother’s educaon revised are 3-level variables with at least ordinal
data, which of the stascs used in Problem D.5.7.3 is the most appropriate to measure the strength
of the relaonship: phi, Cramer’s V, or Kendall’s tau-b? Interpret the results. Why are tau-b and
Cramer’s V dierent?
D.5.7.5 In Output 7.4: (a) How do you know which is the appropriate value of eta? (b) Do you think it
is high or low? Why? (c) How would you describe the results?
Week5 QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS: CROSS TABULATION, CHI SQUARE, AND NON-
PARAMETRIC ASSOCIATION
SPSS Questions
Chapter 7
