SUBJECT
Title
Planning Empirical Research - Propaedeutics
Code
DPSY16-QNR-104
Type of instruction
practice
Level
Doctoral
Part of degree program
Credits
7
Recommended in
Semester 1-4
Typically offered in
Autumn/Spring semester
Course description
The course focuses on the basic issues in planning research and prepares students to work on their own research project and to write doctoral dissertation.
The main topics of this course:
- The process of research, formulating an empirically testable hypothesis and examining hypothesis validity
- Basic issues in planning research
- Comparing research designs, their basic principles and ecological validity
- Sampling methods, internal and external validity
- Measurement issues and psychometrics
- Data analysis: how to select the appropriate methods
- Testing moderator and mediator effects
- Ethical issues in research, and the roles of Institutional Review Board
Readings
Kazdin, A. E. (Ed.). (2003). Methodological issues & strategies in clinical research (3rd ed).
Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Leong, F. T. L., & Austin, J. T. (Eds.). (2006). The psychology research handbook: a guide for
graduate students and research assistants (2nd ed). Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage Publications.