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ScWk 298 -- Special Project Course
Time: Tuesday 3 - 5:45 (Class times will vary)
Location: TBA
Description
Planning and implementation of research practica emphasizing culturally appropriate measures and design strategies. Students produce a professionally written project demonstrating an understanding of the knowledge base underlying social work issues and appropriate interventions. (Prerequisite: ScWk 242, Credit/No Credit, 1 Unit).
SPSS Workshop
This workshop will cover basic SPSS data management and statistical functions and some things not covered in 242. See your notes from 242 for more detail on basic SPSS operations, data entry and statistics. We will cover the following topics that many students need when working with data from their agencies:
- Importing data from an Excel spreadsheet
- Recoding string variables into numerical ones
- Computing new variables
- Handling missing data
- Creating dummy variables
- Managing output files
- Selected univariate, bivariate and multivariate statistics (to be continued during the spring semester)
Assignments
Instructions for Written Assignments
Online Resources
SJSU IRB policies, forms, etc.
Research Methods: Self Assessment/Review
Scientific Method, Research Process, Ethics, Hypotheses and Research Questions
Group Designs for Evaluation
Single case design; intro to qualitative research
Qualitative reserach designs and methods
Program Evaluation Methods
Survey development; descriptive statistics; intro to hypothesis testing and inferential statistics
Writing Up Results Section
Review of quantitative and qualitative analysis procedures; tips on writing the Results section.
Writing Discussion Section
IRB Application Form example
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