Chapter 11
Interpreting Correlations
By Debbie Rohwer
Chapter 11 of Inquiry in Music Education highlights the following concepts:
• Components of a correlation coefficient
• direction and strength of a correlation
• measurement assumptions that can impact correlations
• significance of the correlation coefficient
• Validity and reliability coefficients
• assessing validity and reliability with correlations
• Inputting data into a statistical program
• Crafting a proposal for correlational quantitative research
Handouts / Worksheets
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Resources
The videos and other links below were chosen to extend and clarify the concepts and skills mentioned in this chapter. We hope these resources are helpful! Please let us know what you think of them, and please suggest other resources that you use as an instructor or as a student.
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JASP (open source alternative to SPSS)
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MASH (Mathematics and Statistics Help, University of Sheffield)
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Sample size calculators: Survey Monkey or Qualtrics
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StatSpace (University of British Columbia)