Statistics and Research Methodology
Full course description
Students will learn the basic methodological and statistical skills to conduct empirical research.
Students will learn how to plan and evaluate a research study, including choosing a research question and corresponding methodological design and creating questionnaires/measurement instruments and the corresponding documentation. They also learn how to get started with statistical analysis software (SPSS, Mplus), once data has been collected (data entry, recoding, computing scales, reliabilities, descriptive statistics, restructuring data for multilevel analyses). This course will also cover basic as well as more advanced statistical analyses, such as T-tests, ANOVA, ANCOVA, and RM-ANOVA, regression analysis, multilevel analysis, as well as coding of qualitative data.
Course objectives
Students are able to:
- understand and critically analyse the methodological design of experimental and survey research in Work and Organizational Psychology;
- design questionnaires / measurement scales with documentation;
- create documentation;
- prepare data for statistical analysis;
- apply basic and more advanced statistical techniques
- apply basic and more advanced statistical techniques