Reflection on Session 5

We had a group presentation in the morning and it was being recorded. In fact, I was nervous when I presented my slides on the results and conclusion because I had diffculties interpreting the meaning of the statistical data such as cronbach alpha coefficient, total proportion of variance, simple correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis, etc. In addition, one of the articles that our group has chosen was written by Dr Quek, hence we were very worried that we may have misinterpreted the findings and reported it wrongly. Anyway, everything went on smoothly eventually... I think so... Haha... At least Dr Quek did not mention that we have reported any findings wrongly. In fact, she commented that we have done a good job! Besides that, Dr Quek also shared with us some background info of the researchers and the problems that they met when carrying out the research.

In the afternoon, each group was tasked to do write up for different portions of our written report. Our group was assigned to do the portion on findings. However, we had a very big problem because none of us was able to use the SPSS to analyse the data and we had no idea what data to analyse because we had never used SPSS before and as I mentioned earlier, most of the statistical data seems foreign to me. The most enriching part of the lesson was when Dr Quek explained and interpreted the important statistical data to us such as p value, item mean, scale mean, and plotting of graph. This is so that we can analyse and generate out the necessary results to be used for our report writing. Our group was also being offered help by group 5 who taught us how to use SPSS to analyse data.