Using SPSS to Understand Research and Data Analysis.

• 1.5c Accessing the SPSS Tutorial in the Data Editor Window

When you close the tutorial, window you will return to the main window of SPSS (called the Data Editor window - we'll have more to say about this window in Chapter 2). You can also run the tutorial at any time by clicking on Help from the drop-down menu at the top of the window, then selecting Tutorial (Figure 1.3).

To view a video of this process, click the Play button below:

Not everything in the tutorial is relevant to the beginner, but we suggest that you run through the basics of SPSS explained in this tutorial. Also, keep in mind that there are many other ways to obtain tutorial help from SPSS other than by running the tutorial.

That is, SPSS Help can be accessed from just about anywhere within the program. In the Appendix we have included several of the screenshots and videos illustrating ways of obtaining help from various points within SPSS. We encourage you to review the Appendix so that you will be familiar with these other ways of obtaining help later on when we are performing various analyses in SPSS.

Now that you have had your first contact with SPSS, let's move on to a close encounter in Chapter 2, where you will learn how to create a simple data file in SPSS. We will then run a simple statistical procedure on this data and briefly discuss the resulting output. This should familiarize you with the basic features of SPSS before we begin work on the EZDATA project mentioned earlier.