Information Package / Course Catalogue
Statistics in Educational Researches
Course Code: İSÖ506
Course Type: Area Elective
Couse Group: Second Cycle (Master's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 3
Prt.: 0
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 5
Objectives of the Course

It is to gain knowledge and skills to apply the basic statistical techniques, which are frequently used in social science research, by using SPSS, to interpret and report the results.

Course Content

Importance of statistics science and education. Data and data types, gathering data and analyzing them. Commonly used statistics programs and the basic commands of them. Description of data view page of SPSS and doing the basic procedures. Application of descriptive and inferential statistics, interpreting and writing reports on them. Doing correlational analyses and interpreting the results.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Prof. Cumali ÖKSÜZ
Learning Outcomes
1.1. Students will be able to comprehend the importance of statistics in science and educational research.
2.2. Students will be able to know about commonly used statsitics programs and their basic commands.
3.3. Students will be able to put the data into the computer.
4.4. Students will be able to comprehend the aims and features of descriptive and inferential statistics.
5.5. Students will be able to distinguish the features and uses of parametrical and non-parametrical tests.
6.6. Students will be able to analyze the data with suitable statistics and tests.
7.7. Students will be able to put the results into tables and interpret them.
8.8. Students will be able to interpret the analysis outputs.
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Baykul, Y. (2017). İstatistik metodlar ve uygulamalar (1.baskı). Ankara: Anı Yayıncılık
2.Büyüköztürk, Ş. (2021). Sosyal bilimler için veri analizi el kitabı: İstatistik, araştırma deseni, SPSS uygulamaları ve yorum (29.baskı). Ankara: Pegem Yayınları.
3.Büyüköztürk, Ş. , Çokluk, Ö. ve Köklü, N. (2021). Sosyal bilimler için istatistik (25.baskı). Ankara: Pegem Yayınları.
4.Can, A. (2020) SPSS ile Bilimsel Araştırma Sürecinde Nicel Veri Analizi (9.Baskı). Ankara: Pegem Yayınları
5.Croceker, L. & Algina, J. (2006). Introduction to classical and modern test theory. Fort Worth: Holt, Rinehart and Winston Inc.
6.Cronbach, L.J. (1990). Essentials of psychological testing (4th edn), New York: Harper Row
7.Çokluk, Ö., Şekercioğlu, G. ve Büyüköztürk, Ş (2021). Sosyal bilimler için çok değişkenli istatistik: SPSS ve LISREL uygulamaları (6.Basım). Ankara: Pegem Yayınları
8.DeVellis, R.F. (2003). Scale development: Theory and applications (Second edition).London: Sage pub.
9.Green, S.B. & Salkind, N.J. ( 2005). Using SPSS for windows and macintosh: Analyzing and understanding data (Fourth edition). Upper Saddle River: Pearson Prentice Hall.
10.Hovardaoğlu, S. (2004). Davranış bilimleri için istatistik. Ankara: Hatipoğlu Yayınları.
11.Kirk, R.E. (1982). Experimental design: Procedures for the behavioral sciences. Belmont: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company .
12.Tabachnick, B.G & Fidell, L.S. (2020) Çok değişkenli istatistikleri kullanımı. (Çeviri Editörü: Mustafa Baloğlu). Ankara: Nobel Yayıncılık (6. Basımdan çeviri)
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Basic Statistical Concepts • Measurement and scale types •Descriptive statistics types: Graphs, Central tendency measures, Measures of variability Arithmetic Mean, Median (Median) and Peak (Mode) range, quartile deviation, variance, standard deviation) • Program right. Meeting. • Introduction to SPSS: Introduction of menus, Data View, Variable View, input of variables into SPSS and events
Week 2 - Theoretical
• Editing Data in Spss o Editing Data for Measurements of Different (Independent) Groups o Editing Data for Repeated Measurements of the Same Group o Some Variable and Data Operations in SPSS o Recode Process o Variable Value Calculation (Compute) Process o Assigning a Value to a New Variable as a Result of an Operation o Split File Process o Select Cases by Data Criteria o Conversion to Artificial Ranking Scale (Rank Cases) Process o Frequency distribution, descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing o Probability and Normal Distribution o Skewness and Kurtosis o Standard Error of Measurement and Confidence Interval
Week 3 - Theoretical
• Normality Tests with SPSS o The Importance of Normality o Control of Normality with Measures of Central Tendency o Controlling Normality According to Skewness and Kurtosis Coefficient of Distribution o Checking Normality with SPSS's Data Structure Explore Option o Normality Tests (Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Shapiro-Wilk) o Conversion Options for Non-Normal Situations o Activities to transform data into Normal distribution o Standard score types: Z score, T score o Outlier analysis
Week 4 - Theoretical
• Description with Percentages and Frequencies o Frequency [Frequency] Calculation with SPSS o Presenting Results in Crosstabs o Creating a Frequency Table of Data With Labels Assigned to Values • Giving Descriptive (Descriptive) Statistics (Central Tendency and Measures of Variability) on a Group of Quantitative Data o Calculating Center of Frequency Tendency and Measures of Variability with SPSS o Comparing Mean Means with a Norm, Standard, or Parameter • Chi-square test for two variables
Week 5 - Theoretical
For intergroup patterns (independent groups), • Single-sample t-test (Conditions for Performing, Data Entry, Result Table, Effect Size, Expression of the Result in the Research Report)
Week 6 - Theoretical
For intergroup patterns (independent groups), • Mann Whitney U test; (Conditions of Ability, Data Entry, Result Table, Statement of the Results in the Research Report)
Week 7 - Theoretical
For intergroup patterns (independent groups), • Single-factor analysis of variance (ANOVA) (Conditions of Doing, Data Entry, Result Table, Effect Size, Expression of the Result in the Research Report) • Two-factor ANOVA (Conditions for Performing, Data Entry, Result Table, Effect Size, Expression of the Result in the Research Report)
Week 8 - Theoretical & Practice
For intergroup patterns (independent groups), • Kruskal Wallis test (Performance Conditions, Data Entry, Result Table, Effect Size, Expression of the Result in the Research Report)Midterm
Week 9 - Theoretical
For intergroup patterns (independent groups), • Two-factor ANOVA (Conditions for Performing, Data Entry, Result Table, Effect Size, Expression of the Result in the Research Report)
Week 10 - Theoretical
For patterns within groups (dependent groups), • t-test (Performance Conditions, Data Entry, Result Table, Effect Size, Expression of the Result in the Research Report) • Wilcoxon signed-rank test (Conditions for Performing, Data Entry, Result Table, Effect Size, Expression of the Result in the Research Report)
Week 11 - Theoretical
For patterns within groups (dependent groups), • One-factor ANOVA and Friedman test (Conditions of Performing, Data Entry, Result Table, Effect Size, Expression of the Result in the Research Report)
Week 12 - Theoretical
• Two-factor ANOVA for mixed designs. (Conditions of Ability, Data Entry, Result Table, Expression of the Result in the Research Report) Comparison of the difference score series with the T-Test for Unrelated Samples)
Week 13 - Theoretical
For correlational patterns, - Exploratory correlation pattern, simple (binary) and partial correlation coefficient
Week 14 - Theoretical
For correlational patterns, • Introduction to predictive correlation pattern, simple regression and multiple linear regression analysis Determining the Structural Properties of a Measurement Tool Exploratory Factor (Principal Components) Analysis (Conditions of Conducting, Data Entry, Result Table, Statement of the Result in the Research Report)
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%20
Final Examination1%30
Assignment5%20
Term Assignment1%30
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory140342
Term Project23618
Reading140342
Midterm Examination110212
Final Examination112214
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)128
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
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Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026