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Learning softwares and experieneces in classrooms
Hello everyone, hope learning here is encouraging you for enthusiastic technological developments, as it is working for me. So, I thought that this could be a good platform where I can ask for different experiences with different softwares used by you ( either as a teacher or as student). This could be helpful for me as well as for you all to know about softwares with the firsthand experience (good or bad).
So let's start with me:
As I am a research supervisor myself; so I have worked with different softwares regarding research one is SPSS. Let me give you a brief introduction about the software with reference to TechTarget:
SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences), also known as IBM SPSS Statistics, is a software package used for the analysis of statistical data.
Although the name of SPSS reflects its original use in the field of social sciences, its use has since expanded into other data markets. SPSS is commonly used in healthcare, marketing and education research.
The types of data analyzed using SPSS is widely varied. Common sources include survey results, organization customer databases, Google Analytics, scientific research results and server log files. SPSS supports both analysis and modification of many kinds of data and almost all formats of structured data. The software supports spreadsheets, plain text files and relational databases such as SQL, SATA and SAS.
SPSS provides data analysis for descriptive and bivariate statistics, numeral outcome predictions and predictions for identifying groups. The software also provides data transformation, graphing and direct marketing features.
The software interface displays open data similarly to a spreadsheet in its main view. With its secondary variable view, the metadata that describes the variables and data entries present in the data file are displayed.
My experience:
I have used this software while being a PhD scholar, and also recommended to my students for quantitative research analyses.
It was helpful and effective in both cases.
I am sure you all have technological experiences of yours in the classroom. Please share them here so that we all can learn get better familiarisation with learning softwares.