PSYC5900-2

Duration

30h Th, 15h Pr

Number of credits

	Bachelor in psychology and education : speech and language therapy	4 crédits
	Bachelor in psychology and education : general	4 crédits
	Master in speech and language therapy (120 ECTS)	4 crédits

Lecturer

Francis Pérée

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

All year long, with partial in January

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

This course deals with the problems encountered by researchers in psychology, pedagogy and speech therapy. Through the use of a statistical software, the course analyses and describes the traditional statistical procedures to solve those problems. Although a theoretical account synthesizes the various statistical concepts under consideration in each chapter, the course has a pragmatically character and is directed towards concrete applications. The topics taken into consideration are as follows: General information on the data processing software - the SAS Software - Data and Variables - Creation of data files - Processing the data - Elementary Statistics and Charts - Correlation and Covariance - Comparison of two Means - Tables of Contingency and Independence - Comparative Tests (means, correlations, proportions) - Multiple Linear Regression - One-way Analysis of Variance - Two-ways Analysis of Variance (factorial and nested designs) - Analysis of Covariance - Repeated Measure Designs - Nonparametric Statistics (partim)

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

First of all, the course is intended to make the students able to solve statistical problems and to use a computer by themselves. For this purpose, the students must acquire and/or develop three kinds of knowledge : statistics, data processing and the use of a specialized statistical software (SAS). In addition to theoretical knowledge, the students must also become able to master the handling of a tool and to use it correctly in various concrete situations.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Ideally, having passed the exam after the two previous courses of statistics. But, even a weak knowledge of statistics allows to participate in this course.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

15 hours of practice are proposed to the students. In addition to the exercises carried out during these sessions, complementary exercises (with solutions) make the course even more clear and are proposed to the students in a specific book.
The corresponding data files are put at the disposal of all the students.

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

The first class is given "ex cathedra" in front of the audience. From the second class, the course takes place in the computer room (CAFEIM). Besides, the students are divided into three groups, which gives each of them, basing his work on concrete problems, the possibility to work on a computer individually. And this in order to help them to master the use of a computer and the statistical software in CAFEIM as well.

Assessment methods and criteria

The evaluation test takes place at the end of the academic year. Activities of supervision and preparation for the examination are organized between February and May. The evaluation test lasts three hours. Each student has to solve several concrete statistical problems on a computer and by himself. For this test, each student has his books and personal notes at his disposal. The answers to the questions of the test must be written down on the personalized questionnaire that each student received at the beginning.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

In addition to the participation in the course and the training meetings, frequent exercises using the software are recommended to the students.

Contacts

UNIVERSITE OF LIEGE Service of Quantitative Psychology Sart Tilman B32 Quartier AGORA Place des Orateurs, 2 B-4000 Liège BELGIQUE Tél : +32 4 366 22 31 - 366 22 34 e-mail : fperee@ulg.ac.be

Problems of statistics and software usage