Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Final Assignment

Hi - 

I've been getting more than one question about this, so I thought I'd just remind you all that with the kind of regression we have learned so far, the dependent variable can only be continuous.

-Megan

Sunday, November 22, 2009

HW 3

Hi - post your questions about the HW 3 here.

Just a reminder that the third assignment is due 5pm Monday Dec 7th, and the response paper is due 5pm Friday Dec 11th.

Also, one question I've been asked a couple of times is about one of the constants for one of your models in Table 3. [-2.33e-016]. Because the value is so small, SPSS reports it in scientific notation (-2.33 x 10^-16) - so just report this as 0.00.

Megan

Monday, October 26, 2009

HW 2

Hi - post your questions about HW 2 here....
Megan

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Assignment 1

For this first assignment, you're conducting two sets of analyses:

1) Describe the children in your sample in terms of socio-demographic and academic characteristics (see handout for the list of measures).

2) Explore how children who are living in poverty differ (on average) across several dimensions from those who are not. Use t-tests and focus on the continuous measures (see handout for the list).


For examples of tables, take a look at the Ready et al. 2005 paper, page 29.  Also see the handout, "Making Basic Tables" on the classweb files.



Submit only Table 1, Table 2 (in word format! not your spss output), and your syntax to Megan on Thursday, October 15th by 5 p.m.

class blog

Hi all -
Given that we meet so infrequently, I'm hoping that this blog will help support you while you're working on assignments, figuring out problems, etc.  Please post any questions or comments (or you can email me and I'll post them if I get a lot similar ones) you have -- in general or about specific assignments. Also feel free to answer questions others have...this should be collaborative.
Megan