AN INTRODUCTORY STATISTICS CLASS AND EXAMINATION USING SPSS PC/

SPSS/PC was integrated into lecture and an examination in introductory statistics. Students were given an anonymous questionnaire after a tr aditional examination and again after an examination with SPSS/PC. The x wanted more theory and derivation and were ambivalent about SPSS/PC in lecture. The computer test decreased computational error fears. Stu dents preferred the more realistic questions which the computer permit ted. Test performance was not significantly different. The results sug gest that statistical packages should be used in later courses rather than in introductory statistics.