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I don't know if you've ever been a university teacher, but I have (for 40 years or so) and I've never done students' work for them. I've shown them what to do if they were capable of following the logic, but there are dozens of students who are led (or forced) by incompetent supervisors to believe that quantitative analysis is essential to their research, even when it's completely irrelevant.
In this case an interesting piece of research was at a standstill ( with a deadline to meet) and would have been stillborn without some intervention (all too frequently the case these days and even 40 years ago).
It's up to Roz to make sense of the data, but as a complete beginner in SPSS I feel he warranted a bit of encouragement and help, short of doing the analysis and reporting for him.
No offence, but get off your high horse, mate. I still rate you highly for all your technical wizardry, but you're a long way short on social theory and policy input.
I understand the concept of providing help, but this seems to be verging on doing somebodies job for them.
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> For information to other listers for answers on research questions.
> There is now a new file with variables from both time 1 (t1.1 to
> t1.22) and time 2 (t2.1 to t2.22). I also generated an ID for each
> case (not really necessary, but just habit for me: compute id =
> $casenum, then dragged it to the top of the file) changed the original
> varnames (see table below for an indication of which variable is
> which: sorry but I don’t have time to generate shorter labels from the
> original enormously long ones. Bring back the days of max 20
> characters!) merged the files for time 1 and 2 and created new
> variables diff1 to diff22 combining the responses. The 170 cases are
> the same at both times and are in the same order in both original files, therefore safe to merge.
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> Roz now needs advice and assistance on appropriate statistical
> analyses and tests. To be honest, I’m not sure we can go much beyond
> descriptive analysis identifying which variables exhibit which
> patterns in new variables diff1 to diff22, particularly when they have
> changed between time points.
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> 11 = Yes Yes
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> 12 = Yes No
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> 22 = No No
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> From: Mohamed Danial [mailto:danial_rozi@]
> Sent: 15 August 2012 02:36
> To: John F Hall
> Cc: 'Bruce Weaver'; 'David Marso'
> Subject: Re: New to SPSS (Multiple responses)
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> Hi Mr Hall
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> Thanks so much for helping me do this. I think it will take ages for
> me to do what you did to the file. Appreciate your help. I hope there
> is someone who could help me esp a statistician. I have posted my
> response to all the questions asked. Hopefully, the response will give
> a clear picture of what I am trying to do and what I am looking out. Thank you.
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> Roz
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> From: John F Hall <johnfhall@>
> To: 'Mohamed Danial' <danial_rozi@>
> Cc: 'Bruce Weaver' <bruce.weaver@>; 'John F Hall'
> <johnfhall@>; 'David Marso' <david.marso@>
> Sent: Wednesday, 15 August 2012 1:35 AM
> Subject: RE: New to SPSS (Multiple responses)
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> Managed to add a serial number and create a combined data set roz1.sav
> (attached). 170 cases, 22 variables with Yes/No at time 1 (t1.1 to
> t1.22) repeated at time 2 (t2.1 to t2.22), then combined to yield 11 =
> y/y 12 = y/n 21 = n/y and 22 = n/n in var diff1 to diff22.
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> Variable Names
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> ActiontakenafterPFactivityevidenceoffeedforwarde.g.studentswilll
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> Learntawarewhattoavoidwhenwritingessaysocouldimprovee.g.dumpingc
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> RubricsSWAguidestudentshowtomarkmadeclearthecriteriaforsuccessra
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> Identifypeersmistakesgoodpointse.g.didnotexplainelaboratelackofs
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> AssistancebyteacherduringPeerFeedback
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> Studentknowshowtogivefeedbackmarkclearlygradecorrectlyconfused
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> OpportunitytoevaluateownMYlearningstrengthsandweaknesseslearning
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> PFhasbenefittedstudentsinlearninge.g.productivesharpenskillmoref
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> Groupmembersdidwellsatisfiedwithgroupmemberseasyenjoytoworkwithg
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> Grouphaseffectivediscussionsenthusiasticpeershelpfulnotparticipa
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> Peerscouldimprovefromfeedbackgiven
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> Studentsbelievetheygavereceivedconstructivepeerfeedback
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> Studenthastakensometimetogivefeedbackandcompletemarkinglessontoo
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> PFgoodmethodtolearnascouldseevarietyofessaysandlearntviewsthestr
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> Learnthowtobeamarkerandhowtoawardmarkscleareronmarkingwhatteache
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> PFoutcomesofPFdiscussionwillhelpstudentstoscorewellgetbettergrad
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> Peershelpedtoclarifydoubtsconfusionandexplainedwhatwaswrittenmea
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> PFwasenjoyableinterestingfunengaginginformativeremarkablenotbori
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> Markedbetterintermsofaccuracyinmarkingfeedbackgivenandreceived
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> Markwithhonestynotbias
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> WanttodoPFagainmorePFbecausehavelearntSWA
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> Teachertomarkbecausetheygavemoreaccuratefeedbackandmarks
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> Currently defined variables
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> As David says, “What are you attempting to achieve with this data?“
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> Who are your respondents and why were they asked these questions?
> You’ll need a statistician to provide appropriate tests to see if
> there are any significant differences between answers at time 1 and at time 2.
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> From: John F Hall [mailto:johnfhall@]
> Sent: 14 August 2012 13:32
> To: 'Mohamed Danial'
> Cc: 'SPSSX-L@.UGA'; 'Bruce Weaver'
> Subject: RE: New to SPSS (Multiple responses)
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> Roz
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> John
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> From: Mohamed Danial [mailto:danial_rozi@]
> Sent: 14 August 2012 10:14
> To: John F Hall
> Subject: Re: New to SPSS (Multiple responses)
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> Hi Mr Hall
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> Thanks thanks for the help
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> Roz
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> From: John F Hall <johnfhall@>
> To: 'rozdan' <danial_rozi@>; SPSSX-L@.UGA
> Sent: Tuesday, 14 August 2012 5:21 PM
> Subject: RE: New to SPSS (Multiple responses)
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> 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.
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> 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
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http://surveyresearch.weebly.com/summary-guide-to-spss-tutorials.html ).
> I'm not convinced that this is a case for multiple response as such,
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http://surveyresearch.weebly.com/33-multiple-response-mult-response.html .
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> John F Hall (Mr)
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> Email: johnfhall@
> Website:
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> From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:SPSSX-L@.UGA] On Behalf Of rozdan
> Sent: 14 August 2012 08:35
> To: SPSSX-L@.UGA
> Subject: New to SPSS (Multiple responses)
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> 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.
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> 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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