Assginment 6
Assginment 6
Instructions: You are required to work in groups (already created) for this assignment. Every
group is required to submit the assignment in soft form via LMS before 3pm on Nov 28, 2020.
Moreover, two groups will be randomly chosen to present/explain their assignment 2 work in our
upcoming class. The datasets for the following two tasks are available on LMS.
Task 1: The University of Sussex constantly seeks to employ the best people possible as
lecturers. They wanted to revise the ‘Teaching of Statistics for Scientific Experiments’ (TOSSE)
questionnaire, which is based on Bland’s theory that says that good research methods lecturers
should have: (1) a profound love of statistics; (2) an enthusiasm for experimental design; (3) a
love of teaching; and (4) a complete absence of normal interpersonal skills. These characteristics
should be related (i.e., correlated) in some cases and may not be for some others. The University
revised this questionnaire to become the ‘Teaching of Statistics for Scientific Experiments –
Revised’ (TOSSE-R). They gave this questionnaire to 239 research methods lecturers around the
world to see if it supported Bland’s theory. The data are in TOSSE-R.sav. Conduct a factor
analysis (with both orthogonal and oblique rotations), compare and interpret the factor structure
from both rotation types.
Task 2: Dr Sian Williams (University of Brighton) devised a questionnaire to measure
organizational ability. She predicted five factors to do with organizational ability: (1) preference
for organization; (2) goal achievement; (3) planning approach; (4) acceptance of delays; and (5)
preference for routine. These dimensions are theoretically independent. Williams’ questionnaire
contains 28 items using a 7-point Likert scale (1 = strongly disagree, 4 = neither, 7 = strongly
agree). She gave it to 239 people. Run a principal component analysis on the data in
Williams.sav