For the growth of any educational institution, the ability to analyse data and predict such information is a great contribution to enhancing the institution’s performance, then performance analysis and prediction should be established.
The College’s celebration of the National Statistics Month concluded with a seminar-workshop on Data Analysis with SPSS application held on October 28-29, 2019 at the College AVR.
The activity was attended by faculty members from the Bontoc and Tadian campuses who have a strong inclination for research and mathematics education faculty members. The said activity was also aligned to the goals and objectives of the National Statistics Month, particularly in engaging mathematics education teachers and researchers to become more abreast with the significance of statistics on data analysis and predictions for better decisions in the conduct of research.
The seminar-workshop’s Learning Resource Providers were faculty members of Statistics Department of the Benguet State University. Ms. Freda Kate Samuel discussed the topic titled “Research Methods and Tests of Hypothesis”, and she provided a clear relationship of statistics to research. She also emphasized that research is powerful or meaningful when done through proper statistical analysis. Meanwhile, Ms. Precious Valentin discussed modelling using regression and decision tree analysis, which enabled the participants to run the model on SPSS and enlightened them on how the model works when it is established properly.
The topics discussed during the activity provided the participants with significant information which are needed in decision-making processes in research. It is important to recognize that data analysis and prediction on statistical modelling is a powerful tool for developing and testing theories by causal explanation, prediction and description. With this, analysis and predicting the information about the institution is a great concern to higher education management to attain its vision. This will help the educational institutions to identify the risk that comes along the way and to and provide solutions. Thus, the seminar-workshop ended with the participants crafting a research proposal that utilized modelling research as a design.
