Unit name | Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology in Education (Part 2) |
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Unit code | EDUC10006 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | C/4 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Dr. Williams |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | School of Education |
Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
Building on RM & Stats 1, in this unit students will be introduced to research methods in psychology, research design, statistical analyses, psychometrics and measurement techniques, and quantitative methods. Examples of statistics and research methods will be taken from psychology in education.
The unit will have a 1 hour lecture on quantitative analyses or statistics, followed by a 2 hour session split into research methods and the application of the analyses/statistics. During the application component, students will collect and analyse data for their assessed lab report. By linking statistical analysis techniques to research methods through application, we will encourage students to develop:
(a) a conceptual understanding of the epistemology, content and analysis relating to the proposed empirical work;
(b) specification of the studies' theoretical content and study design;
(c) the conduct of the data collection phase;
(d) the analysis of these data;
(e) the write-up of the results of that study in the conventional APA format.
Topics will include: Research methods (experimental manipulations, independent designs, repeated measures designs) and statistical techniques related to t-tests; One-way ANOVA; Chi-square; non-parametric tests; and mixed methods.
Upon successful completion of this unit students will have:
The unit comprises 1x one-hour statistics lecture and 1 x two-hour research methods and lab session per week. Each student attends all sessions. During the lab component they will work in small groups to apply the material presented in the two lectures through guided activities.
Formative assessment
Quiz (ILOs 1-4)
Workbook (ILOs 1-5)
Draft lab report (ILOs 2, 5, 6, 8)
Interview and analysis practice (ILOs 3, 4,7)
Summative assessment
ILOs 1-6, 8: One hour Exam, Multiple choice and short answer (50%)
The exam will cover material presented in the unit and be a combination of multiple choice and short answer questions.
ILOs 1-6,8: Lab Report, 2,000 words (50%)
The lab report, focused on quantitative methods, will present the rationale, methods, analysis, and conclusions for quantitative data.
American Psychological Association (2010). Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th Ed.). New York: American Psychological Association.
Coolican, H. (2009). Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology. (5th Ed.). London: Hodder Education.
Field, A. (2013). Discovering Statistics Using IBM SPSS Statistics (4th Ed.). London: Sage.
Harris, P. (2008). Designing and Reporting Experiments in Psychology. (3rd Ed.). Buckingham: Open University Press.