Experimental Research Workshop: ANOVA (Newcastle)

This practical workshop is designed to build your confidence with experimental methods, focusing on Analysis-of-variance (ANOVA). This statistical approach is used in psychological research to analyse the effect that one or more factors is having on an outcome.

This day will show how to use both 1-way and 2-way ANOVA to analyse project data and will help you to put what you have learned into practice with hands-on SPSS support from expert tutors.

The technique will be of particular interest to Open University psychology students, as variants of ANOVA are used in the DE200 (Investigating psychology 2) and DE300 (Investigating psychology 3) projects.

To ensure you get all the help you need this event is restricted to 20 attendees.

The workshop will involve:

• Taking part in mock experimental research studies
• Learning how to input quantitative data into SPSS
• Identifying and running appropriate analyses
• Interpreting SPSS output
• Writing up research findings as part of an experimental research project

PLEASE NOTE: This day includes practical sessions so you will need to bring your own laptop with SPSS installed.

Registration is from 9.30am and sessions start at 10.00am.

10.00 - 10.10 Welcome and Introduction

10.10 - 11.20 Session One: Why we do experimental research and Introduction to SPSS

11.20 - 11.30 Break

11.30 - 13.00 Session Two: Using ANOVA and SPSS to analyse data from a Memory Experiment

13.00 - 13.50 Lunch Break (Lunch is not provided)

13.50 - 15.00 Session Three: Writing up experimental reports

Dr Angie Johnson authored the 'Doing your experiment project' chapter of DE300 and has tutored Open University cognitive psychology for 13 years as an Associate Lecturer and residential school tutor.

Angie has taught a variety of subjects in Psychology at Northumbria University but her main focus and interest is Research Methods. Her research experience is vast and has involved a diverse range of industrial based projects including the development of business and digital solutions for psychological problems at Northumbria University.

Most recently Angie is a Usability Research consultant and works with designers to develop digitised programmes within the public sector. She is currently writing a book on the Psychological Principles of Design and also has many more ideas to put into print as she investigates online behaviour and fraud.

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