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PSY-10040 - Module Specification
School of Psychology
Faculty of Natural Sciences

For academic year: 2024/25 Last Updated: 27 April 2024

PSY-10040 - Answering Questions with Quantitative Data
Coordinator: David Walker Tel: +44 1782 7 34265
Lecture Time: See Timetable...
Level: Level 4
Credits: 15
Study Hours: 150
School Office: 01782 733736

Programme/Approved Electives for 2024/25

None

Available as a Free Standing Elective

No

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2024/25


Aims
To introduce students to and develop their understanding of research philosophy, design, and methodology.
To develop students ability to propose and test hypotheses suitable for quantitative analysis.
To enable students to handle data and utilise a range of analyses to answer questions with quantitative data.

Intended Learning Outcomes

Demonstrate the ability to select the appropriate research design and analytical methods from a range in line with the questions proposed.: 1,2
Identify, use and correctly interpret the results of a range of quantitative analyses.: 1,2
Demonstrate an understanding of the research process from conception to completion of write up.: 2,3

Study hours

Students will spend approximately 90 minutes per week working through an asynchronous Sway of the weekly content totaling 18 hours.
Students are also expected to spend approximately 1 hour on independent reading of recommended texts per week totaling 12 hours.
Students will have 2 hours per week of scheduled lab time totaling 24 hours.
Students will be given precursor activities each week to complete before their lab expected to take approximately 30 minutes totaling 6 hours.
The remainder of the time is a proportional distribution between the assessments on the module with 90 hours split into 50 completing an independent report, 24 on the short answer analyses and 6 hours on half a years worth of RPT.

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment

1: Class Test weighted 20%
5x multiple choice questionnaires
As part of laboratory class activities students will sit a continuous assessment of 10-15 item MCQs every fortnight totaling 5, checking understanding of lecture content. These will be delivered via the KLE. The best 4 of the 5 marks will contribute to the student's final grade. The MCQ will have a 45 minute timer for completion once opened but students will be able to access it from Monday until the following Friday at 1pm. We will investigate the viability of a Shiny/R app that auto generates data per student and will automatically check the results students upload. This will prevent collusion among students.

2: Individual Report weighted 70%
Individual report
Students will work in groups to devise, prepare and collect data on a research project from a choice of 'stakeholders'. There will be five stakeholders to choose from each on a differing topic requiring different analyses and considering different forms of evidence. Once data collection is complete students write up their full 1500 word report individually.

3: Attendance Only weighted 10%
Research participation time
This assessment requires students to participate in 800 minutes of research participation time throughout both semesters. This is to allow students to see a broader range of research topics and designs than would be possible in the module content alone, it also gives them vital insight into research from the participants perspective.

Please note that for the 2022/23 Academic Year programmes may be adapted to operate in accordance with a flexible, digital approach. This means that there may be some changes made to how modules are delivered and assessed. The latest information will be provided to you by your School in module handbooks. We endeavour to give you as much notice as possible of any changes and details about the circumstance in which changes are made to programmes can be found in the Student Agreement, available at: https://www.keele.ac.uk/student-terms-and-conditions/

Last Updated: 27 April 2024