Survey of Skills and Knowledge

This is a survey about your knowledge of statistics and your computer skills. The data will be used in this course to demonstrate concepts of data set creation and data analysis.

This survey is divided into the following sections:

Fill out the information in each section as requested. Then at the end of the form press the submit button to submit the form.

DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION

  1. Your name? (This information will be used to determine who completed the survey. It will not be included in the dataset to be used in class.)

    Lastname Firstname
  2. What is your Major:
    Psychology
    Sociology
    Anthropology
    Exercise Science
    Guidance and Counseling
    Communications
    Business
    Biology
    Other, Please specify

   3.  Today's date: month / day /year

   4.  Are you taking the course for:
       undergraduate credit graduate credit no credit

   5.  Do you have a computer at home? No Yes

   6.  Do you have a modem? No Yes

   7. What is your favorite word processing package?

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STATISTICAL KNOWLEDGE

Please rate each of the following areas in terms of the depth of your knowledge in that area. Use the following 4-point scale when making your ratings:

1 - I know nothing about his area
2 - I have a limited understanding of this area
3 - I understand this area reasonably well
4 - I consider myself to be an expert in this area
  1. 1 2 3 4 - Knowledge of frequency distributions
  2. 1 2 3 4 - Knowledge of chi square
  3. 1 2 3 4 - Knowledge of correlation
  4. 1 2 3 4 - Knowledge of t test
  5. 1 2 3 4 - Knowledge of simple anova
  6. 1 2 3 4 - Knowledge of repeated measures anova
  7. 1 2 3 4 - Knowledge of multiple regression
  8. 1 2 3 4 - Knowledge of factor analysis
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COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE and SKILLS

Please rate each of the following areas in terms of the depth of your knowledge or skill in that area. Use the following 4-point scale when making your ratings:

1 - I know nothing about his area
2 - I have a limited understanding of this area
3 - I understand this area reasonably well
4 - I consider myself to be an expert in this area
  1. 1 2 3 4 - UNIX commands
  2. 1 2 3 4 - EMACS commands
  3. 1 2 3 4 - MS-DOS commands
  4. 1 2 3 4 - word processing on a PC
  5. 1 2 3 4 - programming language (e.g, BASIC, PASCAL, C+)
  6. 1 2 3 4 - how to use Windows 97/98
  7. 1 2 3 4 - how to use spreadsheets
  8. 1 2 3 4 - how to run SPSS on a mainframe (e.g., on a Unix system)
  9. 1 2 3 4 - how to run SPSS for Windows
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FORM SUBMISSION

Thank you for taking the time to answer the questions in our survey. When you have completed the survey press the "Submit Form" button to submit your data.

(The "Clear Form" button to clear all entries from this form.)

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Revised: July 09, 2000.