STATISTICS

Dr. Richard O. Beans

Office: HH 303, ext. 6812

Home Phone: 618/664-0895

E-mail: rbeans~greenville.edu

Fall 2000

PSY/SOC 202

Time: M/W/F

8:30-89:20 a.m.

Office Hours: by appointment

Required Texts:

1 ) Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences (5th edition) 2000, Gravetter and Walnau, Wadsworth.

2) A Simple Guide To SPSS for Windows (for versions 8.0, 9.0, and 10.0) 2000, Kirkpatrick and Feeney, Wadsworth.

Institutional Mission:

Greenville College is a Christian community committed to excellence in higher education and grounded in both the liberal arts tradition and a rich Wesleyan heritage. We seek to equip students for lives of effective leadership and redemptive servanthood through an education characterized by open inquiry into all creation and guided by the authority of Scripture, tradition, reason, and experience.

Institutional Objectives:

A) Seek truth.

B) Learn to think critically and creatively.

C) Understand and value the wholeness of creation.

D) Understand our world.

E) Respect human life and understand the human condition.

F) Understand and apply basic social structures and processes.

G) Develop self-understanding.

H) Value personal accomplishment.

I) Respond to God's expression.

Course Objectives: At the close of this semester students in PSY 202 will be able to:

· demonstrate a basic understanding of the most commonly used summary, descriptive, and inferential statistics in the social sciences and business. And an understanding of their logic, uses, and interpretations.

This objective is met through the following experiences:

- Chapter quizzes

- Problem sets

Institutional Objectives addressed: B,D

· demonstrate a basic competence in working with data using SPSS for Windows.

This objective is met through the following experiences:

Exercises and homework which require creating and manipulating data files, analyzing data using charts, graphs, and statistical tests, and reading and interpreting output files·

Institutional Objectives addressed: B, D

 conduct basic research, which requires statistical writing and summarization of findings at an introductory level.

This objective is met through the following experiences:

- Applied Research Project

Institutional Objectives addressed: B, F, and H

Attendance: Since material will be presented

that is not available in the text it is important that all students attend all class sessions. Attendance will be taken daily as a reminder to the student of the importance placed upon it and to provide an indication to the instructor of each student's pattern of attendance. Class attendance will be considered in the determination of the final grades. Students will be allowed 3 unexcused absences (please see the attached college excused absence policy). Subsequent absences will result in the loss of 10 points per occurrence, with a maximum penalty of 50 points. Each student

will begin the term with 50 points for attendance. It is the student's responsibility to sign the attendance sheet each day. Unsigned days will be counted as absences. ~

4. Quiz Make-Up Policy

Students are expected to take quizzes on the assigned dates. Students should contact the professor prior to the quiz date if they are unable to take the quiz on the assigned date. Arrangements will be made to make-up the quiz at an alternate time assuming the instructor determines that the reason given for the absence is valid. Students not making arrangements in advance will not be allowed to make up exams. In any event all make-ups must be completed before the day of the next scheduled quiz. Students who do not make up the quiz before the day of the next scheduled quiz will be given a zero. If a make-up is granted, it is the student's responsibility to call Mrs. Paige Todd, Social Science Division Secretary, to schedule a time to take the quiz.

Mrs. Todd's extension is 4315 and her office is in Hogue Hall 315. When you have scheduled your time you should go to Mrs. Todd's office to take the quiz. Her office is not by my office. When you reach the top floor of Hogue Hall turn to your right and walk through the open hallway door. Mrs. Todd's office is the first door on your left.

GREENVILLE COLLEGE WRITING STANDARDS:

Greenville College is committed to helping students improve writing. It is reasonable to expect that any course may contain a writing component as part of the evaluation of student progress. We expect students to produce written work that is focused, well-developed, organized, and relatively free of grammatical, punctuation and spelling errors. Papers that fall short of this standard will not be accepted; the work will be returned to the student for revision within a reasonable time.

Grading Philosophy: The instructor reserves the right of

~ enlightened subjectivity~. to alter anyone's grade up or down depending on circumstances such as participation in class and overall contribution to the learning environment, or lack thereof.

STUDY TIME

EXPECTATIONS:

Students should expect to study at least 6-8 hours a week out of class in order to perform satisfactorily in this class. Of course more time spent in study should achieve even better results.

Final Grades:

12 quizzes 50 points each = 600 points

Applied Research

Project 150 points = 150 points

Homework 200 points = 200 points

Attendance 50 points = 50 points

50 points each 1000 points

 

Scale: 1000-900 A

899-800 B

799-700 C

699-600 D

599- 0 F

 

 

Homework

The due dates and form of these assignments will be announced in class.

Course Schedule

Week Gravetter/Walnau

#1 Ch. 1 and 2

#2 Ch. 3 and 4

#3 Ch. 5

#4 Ch. 6

#5 Ch. 7

#6 Ch. 8

#7 Ch. 9

#8 Ch. 10

#9 Ch. 11

#10 Ch. 12

#11 Ch. 13

#12 Ch. 14

#13 Ch. 16

Applied Research Project:

Sufficient time in class will be spent detailing how to complete this project. The due date will be announced in class.

The above schedule and procedures in this course are subject to change in the event of extenuating circumstances

EXCUSED ABSENCE POLICY

Rationale

Greenville College recognizes that God has created us as spirit, mind, and body. Because we value all three aspects of our God-given personhood, we seek the education, development, and expression of all three.

We recognize that much of the college student's academic growth begins in the classroom. But we acknowledge, too, the value of extra-curricular inquiry, experience, competition, performance, or service as part of the student's "increase in wisdom and stature and favor with God and man."

Policy

We recognize each professor's prerogative and imperative to establish clear and reasonable requirements for his/her classes, including an attendance policy. These requirements, committed to writing and distributed to students at the beginning of the semester, should stipulate appropriate penalties (if any penalties at all) for what the professor considers excessive absence.

However, as a matter of college policy--one based on the assumption that we seek to develop the whole person--student absences shall be excused when the student is engaged in one of the following extra-curricular activities:

1. Acting as an official representation and/or ambassador of the college (e.g. athletics, college choir. student ministries).

2. Participating in a course-sponsored field trip.

3. Participating in any other activity deemed as reason foe excuse by the Vice-President of Academic Affairs.

4. We assume, in addition, that each professor will excuse a reasonable number of absences for serious family or personal crisis. The professor may, at his prerogative, require verification of such personal crisis prior to approving such absence.

Any excused absence of the kinds mentioned above allows the student to make up in class work and exams without penalty. All class and/or alternative assignments must be completed as assigned and in the time frame established by the instructor of the class.

It is the responsibility of the student and the sponsoring faculty member, however, to notify the appropriate instructors of the reason for and the date of the absence at the earliest possible time.

It should be noted:

1. Class absences due to organization or team meetings or practices will not be excused.

2. Where professors allow a specific number of class

absences before the student is penalized, each absence

excused by the criteria listed above should diminish the

number of penalty-free absences by one.

3. However, should the total number of excused absences

exceed the number of penalty-free absences given by the

professor, the student should not be penalized, but

should be allowed to make up any work that (s)he might

have accomplished if not absent.

4. Any student who knows from the beginning of the semester that (s)he will be absent from class for athletic competitions, filed trips, or other performances will reserve his/her penalty-free absences for those endeavors.

5. Instructors may reserve a small number of special class

sessions or activities for which substitute experience

or evaluation cannot be made, and for which absence will

not be excused, if such experiences are announced by the

instructor during the first week of class.