Advanced Research Methods

2023-2024

General Information

Course Code P_MADVRES
Credits 6 EC
Period P1
Course Level 500
Language of Tuition English
Faculty Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sc.
Course Coordinator C. Cinar
Examiner
Teaching Staff dr. G. Spadaro
C. Cinar
Part of programme(s)

Practical Information

You need to register for this course yourself. The (de)registration deadlines can be found on VU.nl

The maximum number of students for this course is 30.

Teaching Methods Lecture

Course Objective

This course is designed to prepare research master students to
critically assess methods used in social psychology research, and to
prepare students to design their own studies.

Course Content

The course will cover fundamental issues in social psychology research,
including ethics in collecting and reporting data, assumptions
underlying the null hypothesis significance testing framework,
statistical power, and methods in assessing reliability and validity of
instruments and methods.

Additional Information Teaching Methods

We will meet 14 times. In each meeting, we will have a mixture of
lectures from the instructor, presentations from students,
and class discussion. The instructor will also provide some interactive
tutorials using G*Power, Jamovi, and SPSS.

Method of Assessment

Assessment will include discussion questions on the assigned reading
material
at the beginning of every class. Students will also be evaluated on a
presentation, a paper written on a method or instrument, and a take-home
assignment.

Literature

Journal articles and chapters will be assigned.