Upcoming Workshops
WORKSHOP: The Writing Process
Wednesday, June 5, 6:30 pm - Main Hall, TBDThis workshop will teach students the importance of approaching every writing assignment as a process. Students will be given strategies to help them effectively chose topics, focus, and prepare outlines. Topics covered will include: prewriting, drafting, revising, and proofreading.
SPS Writing Specialist Ms. Beverly Lucas
WORKSHOP: Study Skills 101
Tuesday, June 11, 6:30 pm - Main Hall, TBDIn this workshop, students will identify and gain insight into their individual learning style and obtain information about the best study strategies for their particular style of retaining information. This workshop will also include a segment focused on test-taking skills ranging from how much sleep to get before a test to different ways of coping with test anxiety. Come ready to learn how to take charge over your own education and learning!
SPS Advisor Kelsey Hutcheson
WORKSHOP: Quantitative Analysis Using SPSS
Wednesday, June 19, 6:30 pm - Main Hall, TBDResearch will turn scholars and students from consumers of information to producers of information. Research design is at the root of research. If you don’t have a good design, you don’t have a good research. Three kinds of research design exist presently including: quantitative, qualitative, and mixed method. Quantitative strategies include experiments, and surveys. Quantitative methods of data collection are done using close-ended questionnaires or observed experiments. When quantitative data are collected, they must be analyzed. Quantitative analyses are done in two phases: the descriptive, and the inferential. Statistical and mathematical models aid quantitative analyses. Reliable and valid quantitative analyses will lead to acceptance or rejection of hypotheses. In the past, quantitative analyses was done with calculators, and needed that scholars and students would labor for days trying to sort through thousands of responses or experiments. Today, the SPSS software by IBM has reduced the labors to a click of the mouse. This workshop would help students and scholars understand the basics of the SPSS program, and how to use it to analyze quantitative data.
SPS Professor of Business Dr. Stanley Nwoji
WORKSHOP: APA Style Writing
Wednesday, July 10, 6:30 pm - Main Hall, TBDThis workshop will teach students the essential elements of APA Documentation Style writing. Topics covered will include: format, citation, reference list, and various style issues.
SPS Writing Specialist Ms. Beverly Lucas
WORKSHOP: Software in Qualitative Analysis
Thursday, July 11, 6:30 pm - Main Hall, TBDQualitative data are non-numerical and could be collected using: interviews, focus groups, panels, observation (participant, non-participant), and so on. Qualitative analysis is mostly done by a three-stage coding into concepts, categories, and themes. Themes are related to formulate theoretical constructs. Every scholar would have his/her own subjective way of coding leading to different theoretical constructs. There is software that could aid this coding process. This workshop introduces this software, and helps students and scholars learn how to use them in their search for new discoveries.
WORKSHOP: Facing Your Math Fears
Tuesday, July 16, 6:00 pm - Main Hall, TBDIn this workshop we will discuss adding and subtracting integers and fractions. Are you having difficulty working with concepts like -4 – (-8)? Not sure if the minus is really negative sign? Or maybe you are afraid of fractions? Then this is the workshop for you! Get a one on one tutorial of working with integers and fractions.