Unit of Study STAT3001 Advanced Quantitative Methods in Psychology (2024)

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Unit Snapshot

Unit type

UG Coursework Unit
Credit points

12
Faculty & College

Faculty of Health
Placement

No

Pre-requisites

STAT2002 - Quantitative Methods in Psychology

Unit description

Develops skills in statistical analysis that will allow students to critically evaluate research and to conduct and report analyses appropriately. These skills will provide future psychologists the ability to maintain currency in an ever-evolving industry and researchers to independently analyse data and interpret outcomes in their field. The skills learned in this unit are also highly sought after in many industries.

Unit content

Statistical concepts, such as variance
Interpreting p-values, effect sizes, and confidence intervals
Assumptions of statistical tests, their importance, and how to test them
Multiple regression analyses
Between-groups analysis of variance (ANOVA)
Repeated-measures ANOVA

Availabilities

Location	Domestic	International
Coffs Harbour	Term3	Term3
Gold Coast	Term3	Term3
Online	Term3	Term3

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

describe the underlying logic of statistical analyses and apply this logic to diverse research-based scenarios

conduct advanced statistical analyses on a variety of authentic data sets

evaluate the appropriateness of analytic approaches to answer research questions in psychology

interpret the results of analyses using a variety of approaches and communicate this using approved conventions in psychology

Teaching and assessment

Teaching method

Workshop 1 hour (Weekly)

Tutorial 2 hours (Weekly)

Assessment
Quiz	10%
Report	40%
Report	50%

Teaching method

Workshop 1 hour (Weekly)

Tutorial 2 hours (Weekly)

Assessment
Quiz	10%
Report	40%
Report	50%

Teaching method

Workshop 1 hour (Weekly)

Tutorial 2 hours (Weekly)

Assessment
Quiz	10%
Report	40%
Report	50%

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts

No prescribed texts.

Prescribed Resources/Equipment

All online students are required to have access to SPSS. If you cannot access this at a local campus, it may be purchased from http://www.hearne.com.au/Software/SPSS-Grad-Packs-for-Students-by-IBM/Editions#version_Statistics. You can buy a one year licence for the Grad Pak. Please purchase the standard version, as the base version does not have the functionality you require for some of the analyses.

Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.

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