BASIC RESEARCH & STAT

Catalog description

The course provides an overview of research methods, ethics, psychometrics, graphs, statistics, and APA-style standards of communication encountered in psychological and sociological research. Emphasis will be given to experimental, quasi-experimental, correlational, and descriptive research designs. Scales of measurement, reliability, validity, and different categories of reliability and validity evidence will be introduced. Students will learn about bar charts, histograms, frequency polygons, and scatterplots. Students will be introduced to probability, hypothesis testing, effect sizes, and confidence intervals. Students will also be introduced to several descriptive, parametric, and non-parametric statistics and will calculate them by hand and by computer.