The purposes of this course are to provide information about quantitative, qualitative and mixed method procedures, evaluation of data collected in the research, identification of basic statistical methods, determination of appropriate statistical method (s) for the collected data, using SPSS statistical program, classifying, analyzing and interpreting the results of the analysis, and gaining the ability to examine a research article statistically.

The contents of this course are basic statistical concepts, variables, descriptive statistics, table and graphic editing in computer environment, introduction to SPSS program menus and data entry, parametric tests and its application in SPSS program, nonparametric tests and its application in SPSS program, correlation analysis and its application in SPSS program, Z-Test and T-Test, ANOVA and Regression analyses.