Psychology 205h: Personality Assessment
Haverford College
Spring, 2002
Doug Davis
The Final Project/Paper
(revised 4/25/02)

By the end of exam period (noon, May 17, 2002), please submit to me as a Web URL the address of a short paper written by you and saved on your College website that does the following:

• presents a short abstract in APA style describing the group survey of attitudes about college constructed and administered by Psych 205;
• describes the rationale for the content and form of the survey and states hypotheses about the relationships expected among the various questions asked concerning college selection, time use, and relationship status;
• discusses the Five Factor personality inventory in enough detail so the reader understands the empirical basis for the scales, the rationale for their implementation in the International Personality Item Pool, and the ways they might be expected to relate to the other parts of the survey;
• explains your decision to collect additional data from several people like those in the course sample to illustrate or clarify some of the findings of the group survey;
• presents the findings of the group survey and of your small follow-up in a way that
  • makes appropriate use of the Haverford College Gather Server, including revising the group survey to include your modifications and to send the data to your Gather account;
  • demonstrates that you are able to upload these data to Excel and/or Statistica, to edit the data as needed, and to paste your data to the group dataset;
  • demonstrates that you can use descriptive, correlational, crosstabulational, t-test, and ANOVA statistics in appropriate ways to present the results of the survey; and
• discusses the results of both the group and your own surveys in a way that makes clear the findings, develops a thoughtful critique of the study, and clearly outlines an appropriate follow-up study.

I will be meeting with the class during scheduled lab sessions to discuss the ways this assignment can be completed, and I will be available to individual and group help sessions to enable you to complete all the parts of this assignment.

A copy of the "final," 84-subject Statistica file is on the Course Use server (Psychology, Doug Davis, Psych 205h '02) as "p205.02.survey1.shared." Do not attempt to change this file. Copy it to the machine and folder on which you are working and save changes there. We will practice manipulating data and running some of the statistics you are likely to need using this file on the available machines in Sharpless 401.

You are welcome to work on this assignment together where technical details of Dreamweaver, Gather, Excel, and Statistica are concerned. Your final paper, however, should represent your own writing and your assurance to me that you are now fully able to complete all these Web, Gather, and Statistica tasks on your own.

Statistica tips.