Action Research on Enhancing SPSS Software Skill for Third Year Statistics Students at Mekdela Amba University

Abstract

The role of Statistics plays in our daily lives are so vital such that it is important for every educator and learner to understand and know how to use and interpret it. Statistical software allows researchers/students/educators to avoid tedious mathematical mistakes and produce accurate figures in their work if they input all data correctly. The Research has been identified as one of the most important duties of students. The main objective of the research was enhancing skills of students regarding to basic data handling, organization, presentation and analyzing statistical data using SPSS statistical software for Mekdela Amba University third year Statistics students. Hence the total population is small we take the whole population as a sample. Students performance before and after the training were recorded. The recorded data were analyzed qualitatively and the result shows that the mean of student performance after the training is higher than before the training. Before the training 9 (31%), 8 (27.6%), 7 (24.1%) and 6 (20.7%) of students were score below 50% in the first, second, third and fourth categories respectively and after the training 29 (100%), 29 (100%), 27 (93.1%) and 26 (89.7%) of students were scored above 50 % in the first, second, third and fourth categories. The proposed actions for increasing the performance of students in SPSS were focuses on enhancing basic data handling, organization, presentation and analyzing statistical data using SPSS statistical software.

Keywords: Skill, SPSS, Performance, Statistical Software

DOI: 10.7176/JCSD/69-03

Publication date: January 31^st 2023