【原】课程反馈【英中对照】｜学会了使用统计软件SPSS令人兴奋

翰墨书海 2022-05-16 发布于美国

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“课程反馈”系列展示国外大学生和研究生参与课程学习后的感想和看法，个人的困境以及建议等。对于读者了解国外大学生和研究生的课堂学习状况，完成作业的态度，影响学生学习的各种因素等有一个大致的了解。并从阅读中提高英语的文字表达能力，不无裨益。未经许可，不得复制，欢迎反馈。

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Learned to Use the Statistical Software SPSS is Exciting

(学会了使用统计软件SPSS令人兴奋)

Student 1 (学生1）:

1. The greatest aspect of this course and most useful to me personally is our intensive use of SPSS software and coming to understand it deeply enough to use it on our own. I believe using this software is the most important part of our graduate degree education, and it should be contained in many more classes than what is currently available. However, over the course of a semester, we have become proficient in doing our own research and creating a research report based on the data processing that we did ourselves in a hypothetical research situation. I spent a great deal of time learning about the concepts for this course through the textbook; yet, the most comprehensible application of all the concepts and accompanying formulas came through the professor's weekly videos that he made himself. These videos were enormously useful, and it would not be possible to understand most of the content included without those videos.

1. 这门课程最棒的方面，对我个人而言最有用的是我们对SPSS [编者注：社会科学统计软件]的大量练习，并且对它的理解足够深入，现在我可以独立使用它。我相信使用这个软件是我们研究生学位教育中最重要的部分，它应该包含在比目前在学的更多课程中。然而，在一个学期的过程中，我们已经熟练地进行了自己的研究，并根据我们在假设的研究情况下独立进行数据处理并创建了一份研究报告。我花了很多时间通过教科书学习本课程的概念；然而，所有概念和随附公式的最易理解的应用来自于教授本人制作的每周视频。这些视频非常有用，如果没有这些视频，就无法理解其中的大部分内容。

2. Doing the SPSS practice was by far my favorite experience of the entire course. I found the videos that the professor made quite helpful and was easily able to follow along with my own SPSS software. When I was finished with the work, I was able to understand everything about the concepts utilized by SPSS because I had gone over the work already with the lecture videos as well. The lecture videos helped me enormously as well after reading the text, for they put together all of the pertinent information that I needed to know from the chapter and allowed me to utilize the concepts in my own work.

2. 到目前为止，我在整个课程中最喜欢的体验是进行SPSS练习。我发现教授制作的视频很有帮助，并且可以很容易地与我自己的SPSS软件一起学习。当我完成这项工作时，我能够理解有关SPSS使用的概念的所有内容，因为我已经通过讲座视频回顾了这项工作。阅读课文后，讲座视频对我有很大帮助，因为它们汇集了我所需要的从本章中了解的所有相关信息，并允许我在自己的作业中利用这些概念。

3. Taking tests and quizzes on D2L has always been a pleasant experience. Though, in most classes, there are not easily accessible YouTube videos provided on the D2L platform. In that regard, this professor goes above and beyond to assure all of his students have access to everything that is needed. Everything in the class was also easy to find in D2L as it was all arranged by week.

3. 在D2L [编者注：D2L是一款线上教学平台]上做小测验和作业一直是一种愉快的体验。但是，在其它大多数课程中，D2L平台上提供的YouTube视频并不容易直接访问。在这方面，这位教授竭尽全力确保他的所有学生都能获得所需的一切。课堂上的所有内容也很容易在D2L中找到，因为它们都是按周安排的。

4. The virtual discussions on the "final report" were also a happy highlight that I am glad to have taken part in. The VoiceThread software is easy to navigate and provides for a seamless transition between the post’s pages. I was able to easily upload my PowerPoint presentation and my audio comments were not difficult to do at all. I had only a little trouble finding where the student gallery view was, but I had accessed it before. Therefore, I was able to figure it out on my own. I recommend the VoiceThread platform for all Sociology classes as it added a missing component of being in a completely online class.

4. 关于“期末报告”的虚拟讨论也是我很高兴参与的一个令人兴奋的亮点。VoiceThread [编者注：VoiceThrea是一款线上虚拟讨论平台] 软件易于导航，并提供帖子页面之间的无缝过渡。我能够轻松上传我的PowerPoint演示文稿，而且我的音频评论一点也不难。起初我很难找到学生画廊视图的位置，但由于之前作业有过练习，因此，我能够很快弄清楚。我推荐所有社会学课程使用VoiceThread平台，因为它弥补了一个完全在线课程的缺失部分。

5. Finally, the "weekly briefing" helped us focus as if we had a professor up in front of us every time we logged in to the class on a new week. We were updated on scores and new assignments that needed to be completed. I enjoyed hearing from the professor at any time I needed as well. His availability through email was a great component of this class. Finally, we could even add actual GSS full data sets and the ability to create our own fully publishable academic journal material. Thanks for your time.

5. 最后，“每周简报”帮助我们集中注意力，就好像我们在新的一周登录课堂时有一位教授在我们面前一样。我们更新了需要完成的分数和新作业。我也喜欢在需要的任何时候听到教授的来信。他通过电子邮件所提供的信息是这门课的重要组成部分。最后，我们甚至可以添加实际的GSS完整数据集以及创建我们自己的完全可发表的学术期刊材料的能力。谢谢你的时间。

Student 2 (学生2）:

6. Throughout the semester, I spent an average of 10-15 hours each week completing the assigned readings and SPSS exercises, practicing the SPSS work, and studying the concepts in general. I worked very hard throughout this course, making sure I built my comprehension and ability to apply the learnings to practical research examples. The video content, both the videos recorded by Dr. Sun and those sourced for the class were very helpful during this course. Each week, the video content and "weekly briefing" added to and highlighted the key concepts for the new week and often provided highlights or gaps from the previous week as well.

6. 在整个学期中，我每周平均花费10-15小时完成指定的阅读材料和SPSS练习，练习SPSS工作，并研究一般概念。我在整个课程中都非常努力，确保我建立了自己的理解力和将所学知识应用于实际研究示例的能力。视频内容，包括孙博士录制的视频和为课程提供的视频，在本课程中都非常有帮助。每周，视频内容和“每周简报”都会添加并突出新一周的关键概念，并且通常还提供前一周的亮点或差距。

7. I truly enjoyed learning how to use the SPSS software and spent a lot of time running through exercises and examples from the text and from tutorials on the internet. After this course, I feel prepared to use what I have learned so far and continue to build on these skills over the course of my upcoming career. This knowledge has helped me feel much more confident in my ability to conduct social research, analyze the data, and interpret the results.

7. 我真的很喜欢学习如何使用SPSS软件，并花了很多时间从文本和互联网上的教程中练习和示例。完成这门课程后，我觉得已经准备好使用我目前所学的知识，并在我即将到来的职业生涯中继续巩固这些技能。这些知识帮助我对独立进行社会研究、分析数据和解释结果的能力更有信心。

8. Using D2L has always been easy and clear; all weekly resources (videos, reading assignments, schedule of assignments, and other content) are easy to access and interact with within the classroom environment. The quiz and exam environments were also not complicated and I did not have any trouble with them. I find that D2L offers us various ways to interact with the course and materials and I enjoy that very much. I also enjoy the VoiceThread components, both as a presenter and commenter. VoiceThreads give us a great way to interact with one another virtually, which is nice since we are all attending virtually. It might have been nice to have a few more VoiceThread assignments throughout the course but I am happy to have used the environment when we did.

8. 使用D2L始终简单明了；所有每周资源（视频、阅读作业、作业安排和其他内容）都可以在在线课堂平台上轻松访问和互动。测验和考试平台也不复杂，我对它们没有任何问题。我发现D2L为我们提供了与课程和材料互动的多种方式，我非常喜欢。作为演示者和评论者，我也喜欢VoiceThread组件。VoiceThreads为我们提供了一种虚拟互动的好方法，这很好，因为我们都在虚拟参加。在整个课程中多分配一些 VoiceThread的虚拟讨论可能会很好，我很高兴我们使用了这个平台。

9. The "weekly agenda" was one of the most valuable resources each week throughout the course. I reviewed the agenda nearly every day of the week, both to make sure I was keeping track of the schedule of assignments and to review the points offered in the agenda to help reinforce learning and my own comprehension. I feel that the agenda and "weekly briefing" were bonus content from Dr. Sun each week and I hope he continues to do these things with future courses. The “Rate this Week” surveys were a great way to provide Dr. Sun with feedback from the perspective of the student. I trust that Dr. Sun reviews the feedback provided by students and incorporates that feedback when and where it makes the most sense. In my opinion, offering the weekly agenda, weekly briefly, and collecting the weekly ratings and feedback from students allows trust to be built between themselves (individually and as a group) and Dr. Sun. Working through the course feels more like we’re building a partnership with Dr. Sun and that we’re working towards developing our professional skills than simply taking a course in the abstract.

9. “每周议程”是整个课程中每周最有价值的资源之一。我几乎在一周的每一天都回顾了议程，既要确保我跟踪作业的时间表，又要回顾议程中提供的要点，以帮助加强学习和我自己的理解。我觉得议程和“每周简报”是孙博士每周的奖励内容，我希望他在以后的课程中继续做这些事情。“本周评分”调查是从学生的角度向孙博士提供反馈的好方法。我相信孙博士会审查学生提供的反馈，并在最有意义的时间和地点整合这些反馈。在我看来，提供每周议程、每周简报，并收集每周评分和学生的反馈，可以在他们（个人和团队）和孙博士之间建立信任。完成这门课程感觉更像是我们正在与孙博士建立合作伙伴关系，并且我们正在努力发展我们的专业技能，而不是简单地学习抽象的课程。

10. Relative to other courses throughout my time at TAMUC, Dr. Sun provides the most communication, feedback, and learning resources each week. As a result, I feel that my level of comprehension from this course exceeds that of other courses; and this comprehension enables me to feel more prepared to apply what I learned in my professional career. I truly hope that Dr. Sun continues to facilitate his courses in similar ways and that he continues to challenge graduate students to the degree to which he has done this semester, as the goal should be to fully enable graduate students to become professionals within the field of sociology.

10. 相对于我在TAMUC期间的其他课程，孙博士每周提供最多的交流、反馈和学习资源。因此，我觉得我对这门课的理解程度超过了其他课程；这种理解使我感到更加准备好应用我在职业生涯中学到的知识。我真心希望孙博士继续以类似的方式促进他的课程，并继续向研究生挑战他本学期所取得的学位，因为目标应该是让研究生充分成为该领域的社会学专业人士。

Student 3 (学生3）:

11. I have taken two other courses involving SPSS, but they have been taken years apart. This course gave me a refresher on statistics needed to analyze SPSS along with how to use SPSS. For every chapter assigned, I spent at least 1-hour reading to comprehend. Then I spent another hour or two on videos. In total, with all assignments, quizzes, videos, and readings, I spent about 5-6 hours each week on this course, more if there were two chapters. This class was the most challenging for me this semester, but I enjoyed it. I felt I was given all the resources necessary to understand the concepts and topics for that week. The lectures and readings were necessary to complete the quizzes and assignments. I definitely tried my best in this course.

11. 我曾参加了两门涉及SPSS的课程，但它们已相隔数年。本课程让我重温了分析SPSS所需的统计数据以及如何使用SPSS。对于分配的每一章，我至少花1小时阅读理解。然后我又花了一两个小时看视频。总的来说，所有作业、测验、视频和阅读材料，我每周花大约5-6个小时在这门课程上，如果有两章的话，我会花更多的时间。这门课对我来说是本学期最具挑战性的，但我很享受。我觉得我获得了理解每一周的概念和主题所需的所有资源。讲座和阅读是完成测验和作业所必需的。在这门课程中，我确实尽了最大的努力。

12. I watched every video and every lecture for this course. They were easily embedded into the weekly assignments, so it was easy to access and play with. I did not have any trouble watching them. The extra SPSS videos were not as helpful as the videos that were describing concepts or topics. Dr. Sun’s SPSS was the most helpful and incredibly easy to follow. The videos were helpful when I needed more help or a different explanation on a specific topic. The lecture videos were great, especially when Dr. Sun provided an example of an equation we were needing to understand.

12. 我观看了这门课程的每个视频和每个讲座。它们很容易嵌入到每周的作业中，因此很容易访问和使用。我看他们没有任何问题。额外的SPSS视频不如描述概念或主题的视频有用。孙博士的SPSS视频是最有用的，而且非常容易上手。当我需要更多帮助或关于特定主题的不同解释时，这些视频很有帮助。讲座视频很棒，尤其是当孙博士提供了一个我们需要理解的方程式示例时。

13. SPSS was very straightforward and easy to do. The hardest part for me was understanding how to write out the answers to questions. I also missed something or did not clearly understand what I was supposed to be described in the answer. But doing the actual analysis was very easy. My experience in the usage of D2L (such as taking Diagnostic tests online; taking quizzes, taking an online exam, and exam practice; reading chapters, reading articles on some topics, etc.)

13. SPSS非常简单易行。对我来说最难的部分是理解如何写出问题的答案。我也错过了一些东西，或者没有清楚地理解我应该在答案中描述什么。但是进行实际分析非常容易。我在使用D2L方面的经验（例如在线进行诊断测试；参加测验、参加在线考试和考试练习；阅读章节、阅读有关某些主题的文章等）

14. I was really nervous about the "data analysis report" because I did not take the class prior to this one SOC575, I believe. I was surprised to learn that some students may already have a topic and plan in mind for this data analysis. Plus, I had trouble all semester with describing and explaining my analysis. And the video presentation was hard to do because I am not sure if my analysis is correct, so I may be presenting the wrong information, which makes me feel anxious. I would have much rather had no video presentations.

14. 起初我对期末“数据分析报告”真的很紧张，因为我相信我没有上过这个SOC575 [编者注：指的“高级社会研究方法”研究生课程] 之前的课程。令我惊讶的是，有些学生可能已经有了这个数据分析的主题和计划。另外，整个学期我都在描述和解释我的分析方面遇到了麻烦。而且视频演示很难做，因为我不确定我的分析是否正确，所以我可能会呈现错误的信息，这让我感到焦虑。我宁愿没有视频的演示。

15. The "weekly briefly" was great. It reminded me of the prior week's accomplishments and future accomplishments. It also reminded me that Dr. Sun was there. I appreciated that there were a lot of opportunities for points even if they were small amounts. It allowed me to gain points throughout the semester. It allowed me to be confident when I submitted my exam and report that I would pass the course. I did like that I knew my place throughout the semester because I knew where my expected grade would be at the end. The only problem I had is that the last two weeks of class counted for almost half the points, which was overwhelming. It was a great course, and one of the best I had in my graduate degree. I learned so much!

15. “每周简报”很棒。它让我想起了前一周的成就和接着一周的作业。这也提醒了我孙博士就在那里。我很欣赏有些作业分数很小，但有很多机会获得积分。它让我在整个学期都获得了高分。当我想到提交考试以及“期末报告”我会通过课程时，它让我充满信心。我也确实喜欢我在整个学期都知道自己的位置 [编者注：提供给学生在班级中的百分位数]，因为我知道我的预期成绩最终会在哪里。我唯一遇到的问题是最后两周的课几乎占了一半的分，这压倒性的。这是一门很棒的课程，也是我研究生期间最好的课程之一。我学到了很多！