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Final Assign Harshi

This document provides instructions for an assessment involving the analysis of student data. Students are given data on various student characteristics and metrics and asked to: [1] Enter and label the data, [2] Generate descriptive statistics on the data, examining relationships between variables through cross tabs and scatter plots, [3] Conduct statistical tests to analyze differences in exam grades by gender and year, and relationships between exam, paper, and IQ scores, [4] Explain variance in paper grades through multiple regression, and [5] Analyze interview transcripts through content analysis to identify common themes in a 5 page report.

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Final Assign Harshi

This document provides instructions for an assessment involving the analysis of student data. Students are given data on various student characteristics and metrics and asked to: [1] Enter and label the data, [2] Generate descriptive statistics on the data, examining relationships between variables through cross tabs and scatter plots, [3] Conduct statistical tests to analyze differences in exam grades by gender and year, and relationships between exam, paper, and IQ scores, [4] Explain variance in paper grades through multiple regression, and [5] Analyze interview transcripts through content analysis to identify common themes in a 5 page report.

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LB5235: Assessment 1 – Data Analysis

Part 1: 45 Marks

The following data are available:

218783M2080
198380M1100
238586M4098
218175F1076
218175F3082
206768F3099
267588F2120
249278F4115
267892M4126
308995F3129
217280F1086
198165M2080
177577M1070
197685F1099
358083F3099
277560F2060
218580M3089
277975M4070
219093F3140
229795M3165
219082M2115
198786F3119
329590M2120
196857F3089

Variables comprising the data are as follows:

 Age
 Exam Marks (for a maximum of 100)
 Paper Marks (for a maximum of 100)
 Sex (M=Male, F=Female)
 Year in College (1=Freshman; 2=Sophomore; 3=Junior; 4=Senior)
 IQ
1. Data handling

a. Enter the data in the computer. (1 marks)

b. Provide appropriate variable labels, values labels, and scaling indications to the
variables. (1 marks)

2. Descriptives

a. Use Analyze, Descriptive statistics, Descriptives to summarize metric variables. (3 marks)


b. Recode the sex variable such that it is 1 for females and 0 for males. Hint: Do this
immediately in your own dataset, so do not enter M and F. (3 marks)

c. Use Analyze, Descriptive statistics, Frequencies to summarize nonmetric variables. (3


marks)
d. Create a pie-chart for Year in College. (2 marks)
e. Create a histogram for IQ and include the normal distribution. (2 marks)
f. Make a scatter plot with IQ on the x-axis and exam grade on the y-axis. What do you
conclude? (3 marks)

g. Make a scatter plot with sex on the x-axis and IQ on the y-axis. What do you conclude?
(3 marks)
h. Compute the mean IQ for males and for females. Conclusion? (2 marks)

i. Create a new dummy variable, IQdum, which is 1 if the IQ is larger than or equal to
100, and 0 else. (3)
j. Create a cross table between IQdum and Year in College. (2 marks)

3. Data analysis

a. Is the exam grade significantly larger than 75? (3 marks)

b. Are there significant differences in the exam grade for men and women? – Independent
samples. (2 marks)
c. Is there a significant difference between the exam grade and the paper grade? – paired
samples. (2 marks)

d. Are there significant differences in the paper grade for the four year groups? – find out
means first. (3 marks)
e. Obtain a correlation matrix for all relevant variables and discuss the results. (2 marks)

f. Do a multiple regression analysis to explain the variance in paper grades using the
independent variables of: age; sex (dummy coded); and IQ, and interpret the results. (5
marks)
Part 2: 55 Marks

Your task will be to read the transcripts and perform what we call a content analysis. That is,
you need to read the interviews over and find if there are some common themes among them.
You may do this any method you choose. When you have finished the reading, and the
categorization, you need to write a no more than five-page report on what you have
discovered.

You’re going to write this up as you would in two sections of a research paper:

Methods (or Methodology)

Here you describe exactly how you analysed the data. What were your rules for determining
categories, trends, or themes? How did you do the coding? (25 marks)

Results

Here you talk about what you actually discovered. As they used to say in Dragnet, “Just the
facts.” You can’t really interpret the data, or talk about what it means, as we didn’t start this
with a research question or hypotheses. (25)

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