Syrian Arab Republic السوري ة
ّ العربية
ّ الجمهورية
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Ministry of Higher Education وزارة التعـليــم العـالـــــــــي
Syrian Virtual University السوري ة
ّ اضية
ّ الجامعة االفتر
Course Definition File
1. Basic Information:
Course Name Data analysis
Course ID BQM305
Contact Hours (Registered Sessions) 81
Contact Hours (Synchronized Sessions) 18
Mid Term Exam
Exam 75min
Registered Sessions Work Load 18
Synchronized Session Work Load 18
Credit Hours 4
2. Pre-Requisites:
Course ID
Operations Research BQM202
3. Course General Objectives:
The course aims to give students a thorough overview of the quantitative data
analysis methods using computers. The course includes a definition of the scales
and its types, and how to design a questionnaire as a tool to collect quantitative
data. The course also distinguishes between descriptive analysis methods and
inferential analysis methods. The course explains too how to test hypothesis.
Besides, it addresses how to apply a wide range of statistical analysis methods in
SPSS such as chi square, one sample t-test, independent samples t-test, paired
samples t-test, analysis of variance, linear correlation, and simple and multiple linear
regression.
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Syrian Arab Republic السوري ة
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Ministry of Higher Education وزارة التعـليــم العـالـــــــــي
Syrian Virtual University السوري ة
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4. Intended Learning Outcomes (ILO):
Code Intended Learning Outcomes
Understand the types of scales and data and their relationship with the
ILO1
statistical analysis methods.
ILO2 Learn how to enter and analyze data and test hypothesis using a computer.
Understand the difference between descriptive statistics and inferential
ILO3
statistics.
Learn how to describe the sample and the variables using descriptive
ILO4
analysis methods.
ILO5 Understand how to test hypothesis using inferential statistics.
Understand how to test the relationship between variables based on their
ILO6
types.
ILO7 Learn how to test the difference between means.
Understand how to anticipate variations in the dependent variable as a
ILO8
function of one or more independent variable.
5. Course Syllabus (18 hours of total synchronized sessions)
RS: Recorded Sessions; SS: Synchronized Sessions;
ILO Course Syllabus RS SS Type Additional Notes
Exercises
Questionnaire and scales: Assignments
Types of scales Seminars
ILO1 1.5 1.5
Scaling technics Projects
Questionnaire Design Practices
Others
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Introduction to SPSS: Exercises
Windows available in Assignments
ILO1 SPSS Seminars
1.5 1.5
ILO2 SPSS Files Projects
SPSS menus Practices
Entering data in SPSS Others
Descriptive analysis: Exercises
ILO2
Frequencies Assignments
ILO3 Measures of central Seminars
2.5 2.5
ILO4 tendency Projects
Dispersion measures Practices
Distribution Others
ILO2 Exercises
Cross tabulations and chi square
ILO3 Assignments
test:
Seminars
ILO5 Cross tabulations 2.5 2.5
Projects
ILO6 Hypothesis testing
Practices
Chi square
Others
Exercises
ILO2 t-test:
Assignments
One sample t-test
ILO5 Seminars
Independent samples t- 2.5 2.5
ILO7 Projects
test
Practices
Paired samples t-test
Others
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Syrian Arab Republic السوري ة
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Ministry of Higher Education وزارة التعـليــم العـالـــــــــي
Syrian Virtual University السوري ة
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Analysis of variance:
Variables Exercises
ILO2 Hypothesis Assignments
Assumptions of the Seminars
ILO5 2.5 2.5
analysis Projects
ILO7
Calculating statistical Practices
coefficients in ANOVA Others
Test using SPSS
Linear correlation analysis: Exercises
ILO2
Relationship between two Assignments
ILO5
variables Seminars
2.5 2.5
ILO6 Linear correlation Projects
coefficient Practices
Test using SPSS Others
Exercises
ILO2 Assignments
Linear regression:
Seminars
ILO5 Simple linear regression 2.5 2.5
Projects
ILO8 Multiple linear regression
Practices
Others
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Syrian Arab Republic السوري ة
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Ministry of Higher Education وزارة التعـليــم العـالـــــــــي
Syrian Virtual University السوري ة
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6. Assessment Criteria (Related to ILOs)
ISC Interactive Synchronized Ex Exams Rpt Reports
Collaboration
PF2F Presentations and Face-to-Face PW Practice Work
Assessments
ILO Assessment Type
ILO Intended Results
Code ISC PW Ex PF2F Rpt
Understand the types of scales
ILO1 and data and their relationship
X X X
with the statistical analysis
methods.
Learn how to enter and analyze
ILO2 data and test hypothesis using a X X X
computer.
Understand the difference
ILO3 between descriptive statistics X X X
and inferential statistics.
Learn how to describe the sample
ILO4 and the variables using descriptive X X X
analysis methods.
Understand how to test hypothesis
ILO5 using inferential statistics.
X X X
Understand how to test the
ILO6 relationship between variables X X X
based on their types.
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Syrian Arab Republic السوري ة
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Ministry of Higher Education وزارة التعـليــم العـالـــــــــي
Syrian Virtual University السوري ة
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Learn how to test the difference
ILO7 X X X
between means.
Understand how to anticipate
variations in the dependent
ILO8 X X X
variable as a function of one or
more independent variable.
7. Practice Tools:
Tool Name Description
SPSS SPSS Program
8. Main References
1. Field A. (2006), Discovering Statistics Using SPSS, 2nd Edition, SAGE, England.
2. Ho R. (2006), Handbook of Univariate and Multivariate Data Analysis and
Interpretation with SPSS, Chapman & Hall/CRC, USA.
3. Landau S. &Everitt B.S. (2004), A Handbook of Statistical Analysis Using SPSS,
Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, USA.
4. Malhotra N.K. (2010), Marketing Research: An Applied Orientation, 6th Edition,
Pearson, USA.
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Syrian Arab Republic السوري ة
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Ministry of Higher Education وزارة التعـليــم العـالـــــــــي
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9. Additional References
1. Blumberg B., Cooper D.R., & Schindler P.S. (2005), Business Research
Methods, Mcgraw-Hill, Berkshire.
2. Leech N.L., Barrett K.C., & Morgan G.A. (2005), SPSS for Intermediate
Statistics: Use and Interpretation, 2nd Edition, Laerence Erlbaum Associates,
Inc., USA.
3. Moore D.S., McCabe G.P., Alwan L.C., Craig B.A., & Duckworth W.M. (2011),
The Practice of Statistics for Business and Economics, 3rd Edition, W.H.
Freeman and Company, England.
4. Pallant J. (2007), SPSS Survival Manual: A Step by Step Guide to Data Analysis
Using SPSS for Windows, 3rd Edition, McGraw Hill, USA.
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