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PSY-40095 - Module Specification
School of Psychology
Faculty of Natural Sciences

For academic year: 2023/24 Last Updated: 13 February 2024

PSY-40095 - Advanced Research Skills, Design and Analysis
Coordinator: Kathryn Francis Tel: +44 1782 7 33328
Lecture Time: See Timetable...
Level: Level 7
Credits: 15
Study Hours: 150
School Office: 01782 733736

Programme/Approved Electives for 2023/24

None

Available as a Free Standing Elective

No

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2023/24


Aims
This module provides training for students around advanced research skills, design, and analysis. It aims to provide students with advanced research skills and familiarity with a breadth of research designs in psychology, so that they can progress through the rest of the programme being able to set their work in wider context. It includes new skills and methods not typically covered at undergraduate level (e.g. open science, communication, ethnography) as well as equipping students with advanced research skills such as critical literature reviewing, generating a suitable research question, identifying a suitable method, data analysis, and managing the research process.

Talis Aspire Reading List
Any reading lists will be provided by the start of the course.
http://lists.lib.keele.ac.uk/modules/psy-40095/lists

Intended Learning Outcomes

apply methodological skills in psychology to pose and answer different types of research questions, in different contexts;: 1
apply their research skills in design and analysis to psychological research processes;: 1
produce a psychological lab report in APA format: 1

Study hours

31 hours of synchronous class time
16 hours of asynchronous activities, including materials on ethics, basic statistics, survey methods and basic qualitative methods in psychology
13 hours of independent reading based on the analyses covered in taught sessions
90 hours on the summative assignment including reading, writing the literature review, data analysis, and writing the lab report in full.

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment

1: Laboratory Report weighted 100%
Lab report
Students will conduct a literature review, design a study, analyse data, and report their research in a 3000 word APA formatted lab report.

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Last Updated: 13 February 2024