Hi. I am entering the research/analyst job market and realize that I need to improve my SPSS skills. I took a graduate level stats class with an SPSS component, but it was not very thorough or practical. Since most of my work is qualitative, I have not had a great need for this software. Could anyone provide suggestions for SPSS training, either online or in-person classroom training in the DC metropolitan area (I live in Northern Virginia). Really, I just need practical software training. Or, if anyone knows how best to go about gaining this skill. I have found that many jobs want proficiency in SPSS, but the only real way to become super proficient in the software is through a job. A catch-22. Also, there seems to be a range of meanings in terms of what "proficiency" means. Any guidance will be greatly appreciated. All my best, Katie Vizenor, MLS, MA Doctoral Candidate, Anthropology, University at Buffalo
Hi Katie, I don't know of any online training. What helped me in my own work and made it fun is a book I read that made it so simple: Andy Field's Discovering Statistics Using SPSS http://www.amazon.com/Discovering-Statistics-Introducing-Statistical-Method/... <http://www.amazon.com/Discovering-Statistics-Introducing-Statistical-Method/dp/1847879071/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1305750084&sr=8-1>It made all extra courses irrelevant! Just a golden tip! Kind regards, Nadia Dresscher 2011/5/18 katie vizenor <kvizenor@gmail.com>
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I am entering the research/analyst job market and realize that I need to improve my SPSS skills. I took a graduate level stats class with an SPSS component, but it was not very thorough or practical. Since most of my work is qualitative, I have not had a great need for this software.
Could anyone provide suggestions for SPSS training, either online or in-person classroom training in the DC metropolitan area (I live in Northern Virginia).
Really, I just need practical software training.
Or, if anyone knows how best to go about gaining this skill. I have found that many jobs want proficiency in SPSS, but the only real way to become super proficient in the software is through a job. A catch-22. Also, there seems to be a range of meanings in terms of what "proficiency" means.
Any guidance will be greatly appreciated.
All my best,
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Katie, I used the first edition of Andy Field's book when I did my Ph.D. I also ordered the third edition and recommend it to my students. It's an excellent book. Good luck! Leslie *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Leslie M. Tkach-Kawasaki, Ph.D. Associate Professor Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Tsukuba Email: tkach@japan.email.ne.jp *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Hi folks I was given the Andy Field textbook when I took an entry level SPSS course offered at the larger university in my city. I'm sure it is a great book but I couldn't make any sense of it, having no background in quantitative methods or statistics. I ended up hiring a consultant to assist me with my quantitative analysis. If you live near or study at/work for a large research-intensive university, they should offer training. Also many private software training companies will offer courses in SPSS for industry and business purposes. Rhiannon Rhiannon Bury, PhD Associate Professor Women's and Gender Studies Athabasca University, Canada's Open University rbury@athabascau.ca
I don't use SPSS (some coworkers use it regularly for Internet statistics) but my experiences with SAS suggest there are many statistics modeling text books that come with data disks for SPSS, SAS, MiniTab, Stata, etc. and that reading and working through these statistics books with the software will teach you both the software and the statistics. I would recommend statistical literacy be your goal rather than technical software literacy. You can set up really good programs and still be statistically wrong. Peter Timusk B.Math statistics. BA legal studies Legal studies of the Information Age Vice President Computers for Communites School work blog http://notebook.webpagex.org Some papers www.webpagex.org -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of katie vizenor Sent: May-18-11 3:30 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Suggestions for SPSS training Hi. I am entering the research/analyst job market and realize that I need to improve my SPSS skills. I took a graduate level stats class with an SPSS component, but it was not very thorough or practical. Since most of my work is qualitative, I have not had a great need for this software. Could anyone provide suggestions for SPSS training, either online or in-person classroom training in the DC metropolitan area (I live in Northern Virginia). Really, I just need practical software training. Or, if anyone knows how best to go about gaining this skill. I have found that many jobs want proficiency in SPSS, but the only real way to become super proficient in the software is through a job. A catch-22. Also, there seems to be a range of meanings in terms of what "proficiency" means. Any guidance will be greatly appreciated. All my best, Katie Vizenor, MLS, MA Doctoral Candidate, Anthropology, University at Buffalo _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
I have a PhD student who just finished his graduate course in stats, and he was telling me about a particular instructor (don't know the name, sorry) who had posted a series of using-SPSS videos on Youtube. My student described them as very useful, bordering on "a life saver" when it came time for him to complete his final project. patrick. -- Patrick Williams, Ph.D. http://www.jpatrickwilliams.net
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