Survey research and design in psychology/Tutorials/Psychometrics/Composite scores/Extra exercises

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Exercise 2: Student satisfaction[edit | edit source]

  • Allen & Bennett Ch 2 (pp. 8-9) [1] | .sav
  • Create a composite satisfaction score as the average of responses to these two items:
Items
4 I am enjoying my course
5 It is easy to get good grades in my course

Exercise 3: Quality of maths and english teaching[edit | edit source]

Francis 6.1 (pp. 167) [2] | .sav

  • Create composite scores for the:
    1. Quality of Maths Teaching (9 items)
    2. Quality of English Teaching (8 items)
  • What is the correlation between these composite scores?
Syntax
compute MathsTeaching = mean(maths1,maths2,maths4,maths5,maths6,maths7,maths8,maths9,maths10).
computes a value for each participant, even if they have only one score
compute MathsTeaching = mean.3(maths1,maths2,maths4,maths5,maths6,maths7,maths8,maths9,maths10).
computes a value for each participant, as long as they have three or more scores
Pull-down menus

Go to Transform - Compute - Add name of new variable and create a formula, e.g,.

MathsTeaching | mean(maths1,maths2,maths4,maths5,maths6,maths7,maths8,maths9,maths10)
computes a value for each participant, even if they have only one score
MathsTeaching | mean.3(maths1,maths2,maths4,maths5,maths6,maths7,maths8,maths9,maths10)
computes a value for each participant, as long as they have three or more scores

  1. Allen, P. & Bennett, K. (2008). SPSS for the health and behavioural sciences. South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: Thomson. | Companion site
  2. Francis, G. (2007). Introduction to SPSS for Windows: v. 15.0 and 14.0 with Notes for Studentware (5th ed.). Sydney: Pearson Education. | Support site