Chapter 24 Advanced Quantitative Data Analysis Daniel Muijs Doing Regression Analysis in SPSS When we want to do regression analysis in SPSS, we have to go through the following steps: 1 As usual, we choose analyse. 2 In the pop-down menu that appears, we go to regression. 3 A new pop-down menu appears. We choose linear. 4 A new screen appears. From the list of variables on the left, we will first choose our dependent variable, in this case ‘pupil attainment’, and then click on the button next to dependent. The variable name now appears in the ‘dependent’ box: 5 Next, we have to choose our predictors. Then we click on ‘ok’. The following is the output from our analysis: Variables Entered/Removed a Model Variables Entered Variables Removed Method dimension0 a School climate, teaching quality, student ability, school leadership . Enter a. Dependent variable: school grades in English. Model Summary Model R R Square Adjusted R Square Std Error of the Estimate dimension0 .538 .31 .29 9.78882