QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS

Description

This course is a lab-based/practical course intended to get students to use the freely available Jamovi software for data analysis and to understand what they are doing when they use it. 1. Refresher of basic statistics concepts, choosing statistical analyses, & introduction to Jamovi 2. Enhancing Data Quality, e.g., power analysis, data screening, reliability 3. Making Predictions, e.g., regression 4. Significance of Group Differences, e.g., ANOVA & its variants 5. Structure underlying Variables, e.g., factor analysis 6. Alternative to Null Hypothesis Testing, e.g., Bayesian statistics This module aims to provide students with an understanding of the philosophy underlying psychological research using quantitative methods Attributes Developed 001 Equipped with enough information to critically assess research using quantitative methods KCPT 002 Prepared to apply appropriate techniques to real data sets and be able to interpret output from these analyses in a sophisticated and reflective manner CPT 003 Familiar with the use of common analytic procedures instantiated in Jamovi KPT