Roz
I’ll have a look at these, but I can basically only do the mechanics of SPSS and some thinking about your research question(s). I’m not a statistician, but others on the list are (and still answering in the middle of August!) so I’ve copied my reply to the list (without the files, since it won’t accept attachments or embedded links). Hopefully one or two listers will address themselves to the inferential statistical questions.
You have the same 170 cases and the same 22 variables in each of two files representing Time 1 and Time 2. I assume the cases are in the same order in each file. Your variable names are very long (typical in some beginners’ work) and can be replaced by something much shorter, since the same info is already included in the variable labels. The data needs tweaking to change the variable names for time 2 and then the files need to be merged so that all the data are in the same file. It’s also advisable to create a new variable, SERIAL, for each case. I suggest changing the variable names to something reflecting the sequence of items at each time (eg pf1.1 to pf1.22 and pf2.1 to pf2.22) and adding a serial number to each case. This can be done simply. I’ll get back to you after lunch with a new version of your file and the syntax which creates it.
John
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John Hall
From: Mohamed Danial [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: 14 August 2012 10:14
To: John F Hall
Subject: Re: New to SPSS (Multiple responses)
Hi Mr Hall
Thanks so much for helping. Really need help desperately. I have attached the two SPSS files. PF1 is the first reflection from students transfered into quantative numbers and PF2 is the second one.
I guess i need to explain what I have done. What I did is that students wrote a reflection based on a peer feedback activity. I read these reflections and counted the number of times they said e.g. they have learnt, they received assistance etc. Then I have another feedback activity and the students wrote their reflections and I counted the number of times the students said they have learnt etc etc.
My Sup believes that numbers from qualitative data adds value and I agree with him. We cant perform the Mcnemar Test because the number of Yes/Yes, No/No and Yes/No and No/Yes are way too small. So I came across multiple responses from the book Surveys in Social Research by David De Vaus which said multiple responses. So I tried, but I have no idea what the results show and my Sup has no idea either.
YEs these figures are for peer feedback 1 and 2 and the same population at two different times. The first peer feedback was taken on Week 3 and the second on Week 5. My concern is that if I just substract the percentage, is it valid? For e.g if i use the phase 'significant increase', my Sup just shot me down because he said I cant say that because it is not tested. What test am i suppose to do? I am getting confused, very confused.
Appreciate your help. I will look at the tutorials, I have been looking at a number of multiple reposnses youtube video, yeah understood the concept but how do i interpret them?
Thanks thanks for the help
Roz
From: John F Hall <[hidden email]>
To: 'rozdan' <[hidden email]>; [hidden email]
Sent: Tuesday, 14 August 2012 5:21 PM
Subject: RE: New to SPSS (Multiple responses)
Are these before and after figures on the same variables from the same
population at two different times? How many actual cases do you have? It
may be that all you need is some sort of index for each row subtracting %
for 2nd PF from 1st PF and then trying to make some sort of theoretical or
policy sense from the results.
If you send me [off-list] the instrument/questionnaire used and your SPSS
*.sav file, I'll have a look and see if I can help. Meanwhile check out the
SPSS tutorials on my website
(http://surveyresearch.weebly.com/summary-guide-to-spss-tutorials.html ).
I'm not convinced that this is a case for multiple response as such, but
check out
http://surveyresearch.weebly.com/33-multiple-response-mult-response.html .
John F Hall (Mr)
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rozdan
Sent: 14 August 2012 08:35
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Subject: New to SPSS (Multiple responses)
Hi
Desperately need help to interpret this data. Very new to SPSS and needed to
do a multiple response from a qualitative data to quantitative. Fed the
numbers in SPSS and had this. The table shows results from 2 peer feedback
activities. The columns (not shaded) is the first responses during peer
feedback and the shaded columns are the second responses during the second
peer feedback activity.
My Sup said that the results cannot be used because it didnt show much. I am
sure it can and I feel it is valuable because I am sure it shows something.
Can anyone help how I should interpret this?
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