SPSS: Essential Skills for Final-Year University Students

Learn to run analyses on SPSS, interpret outputs with confidence, and report results in APA style like a pro.

What you'll learn
- SPSS: Essential Skills for Second-Year University Students
- Run Analyses
- Interpret Results
- Reports Results in APA Style
- Create Graphs
- Check Assumptions
- Two–Way Mixed ANOVA
- One-Way Independent ANCOVA
- One-Way Independent MANOVA
- Simple Linear Regression
- Multiple Linear Regression
- Binary Logistic Regression

Requirements
- Students should have access to SPSS. The course videos were created in 2025 with version 30 of SPSS. There are only minor differences between versions, so the course is also suitable for students with other versions released around the same time. The student only needs to have knowledge of basic concepts, such as means, medians, and statistical significance. A free glossary defines all of the terms used in the course.

Description
Drawing on my BSc, MSc, and PhD degrees in psychology and neuroscience and over a decade of experience working with university students, especially those studying social sciences, I designed this course to cover the majority of analyses that students usually encounter in their final year.

The Analyses Covered By the Course

The course covers the following analyses: two-way mixed ANOVAs, one-way independent (i.e., between-subjects) ANCOVAs, one-way independent (i.e., between-subjects) MANOVAs, simple linear regression, multiple linear regression, binary logistic regression.

What You’ll Learn

For each of the analyses, you’ll receive clear, step-by-step guidance on when to use them, how to enter the data, how to check assumptions, how to run the test, how to create a graph, how to interpret the results, and how to report the results in APA style. With this knowledge, you’ll be a step ahead of your university peers!

Resources

Each section of the course focuses on a different analysis and comes with a range of valuable resources, including the data files used in the videos, information sheets with key details about the analyses (e.g., when to use them, example hypotheses, assumptions), and example APA results sections. You’ll also receive a glossary explaining all the terms used in the videos.

Assignments

Each section comes with an additional data set (not used in the videos) that you can use to practice running the analysis and reporting the results. If you choose to complete the assignments, you can download example results sections based on these data sets to assess whether you ran the test correctly and how accurately you reported the results.

Who this course is for:
- Final-year university students, especially those studying social science subjects (e.g., psychology), who need to use SPSS for their research methods classes.
More Info