Apa Anova
Apa Anova
Apa Anova
For most paper publications including your capstone projects ANOVA tables are not
included. These tables look like data in the results worksheet when you run an ANOVA
in EZAnalyze, Excel, or SPSS. They include the degrees of freedom in the analysis, the
within group and between group variance numbers, the calculated F value and the p value
for the test. The assumption in a paper is that you are not going to talk much about an
ANOVA analysis if it is not statistically significant and if it is, you will report the post
hoc analysis of the group means. If an ANOVA is statistically significant report the p
value of the test in the text and then include and describe a table that shows the post hoc
analysis.
Nicol and Pexman (2010) show two versions of how to do post hoc tables (Example
tables 1 and 2). You will see many other solutions to post hoc tables as you read articles.
Following APA’s mandate that actual p values are reported in tables when possible we
provide Table 3 as an example. None of these work very well if you are comparing more
than 4 groups.
Table 1
ANOVA Comparisons of High School Proficiency Tests From Four Adjacent Years
Group n Mean SD
1998 256 b 79.71 13.40
1999 307 b,c 82.34 13.30
2000 287 a,b,c 88.69 7.49
2001 292 a,b, 92.23 6.57
Shared subscripts represent statistically significant differences: a = p < .05, b = p < .01, c = p < .001
Table 2
ANOVA Comparisons of High School Proficiency Tests From Four Adjacent Years
Table 3
ANOVA Comparisons of High School Proficiency Tests From Four Adjacent Years