Scoring the IAT (case 12779)

[jarvis24]

[the following edited reply is taken from a summary post to the SPSP mailing list by Joseph Comeau]

Hello there,
Well this may be your lucky day! I have been using DirectRT to present several fully counterbalanced race-iats to kids in grades 1-5 (aka ch'iat, developed by Andrew Baron and Mazarin Banaji). I use SAS to import and analyze the data, and it works very well indeed. I can go from the Excel output files to SAS analysis in a matter of 30 minutes. If this is helpful to you let me know.

Barry Corenblum
Department of Psychology
Brandon University

[balford@work]

If this is the kind of help I can expect from Empirisoft and DirectRT users I am quite impressed!

I am a SAS junkie, so I'd love to know the procedure and code, if you're willing to share.

Thank You!

[jarvis24]

Caught me on a good day, I guess I've contacted the user who wrote the response about SAS. If/when I hear back, I'll post the SAS code if I can get my hands on it.

[balford@work]

Appreciate it!

[jarvis24]

OK, here is the SAS code, courtesy of Barry Corenblum--he adds:

What I did was to modify the sas procedure called proc import; it wasn't too hard to do, and it works well. I should point out that the proc import sas code does only one thing: it creates a sas data set from the directrt excel log file. After creating the sas data set you need to write other code to get the information you need from the imported file. If you don't need all the information in the log file you just read it in anyway, and then eliminate the data not needed. In this way you don't need to modify the import program for every application.

thanks Barry!