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PSY9150 - Measuring and analyzing constructs in psychological research

Course content

This course is offered as a voluntary component of the Research program and the Ph.D. program at the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo.

The effective class time spans seven days including lectures and exercises in conceptually analyzing psychological constructs, estimating parameters in construct measurement models and interpreting results with reference to their construct representations.

Learning outcomes

Classical measurement theory:
The concept of measurement, systematic and random measurement errors, definition, estimation and relevance of different types of reliability, in particular,
the assumptions, purpose, relevance and estimations of Cronbach’s coefficient alpha, and definition, assessment and relevance of different types of validity.

Conceptual fundament for measurement:
“The latent variable paradigm” Domain definition. Domain content, overlapping and interchanging item content.Domain sampling approach.

Domain illustrations:
One-facet and multifacet measurement designs.
Data-analytic models for internal domain studies

Internal consistency reliability:
Interpreting outputs from the Reliability analysis program (Scale) of the SPSS software.

Introduction to generalizability theory:
Basic concepts, designs and estimations of parameters in one- and multi-facet universes. Generalizability - and Decision - studies. Introduction to the program GENOVA to estimate variance components in different generalizability models.

Confirmatory factor analysis
Estimation and testing of confirmatory factor models

Admission

This is an elective course in the PhD-programme in psychology. Candidates from PhD-programmes at other institutions are welcome to apply to the course.

Only students admitted to the course may take part in instruction and tuition and sit for the examination.

The examination in this course is not available for external candidates. Only students admitted to the course may sit for the examination.

Prerequisites

Formal prerequisites

Enrollment in a PhD-programme.

Recommended prior knowledge

By signing up for the class the students will be given a list of references and papers to be studied a head of the class. You will find required readings here
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Teaching

Seven days including lectures and exercises.

Exam information

The students earn 2 ½ credit points (ECTS) for participating in the class including required exercises. The students will earn additional 2½ credit points for submitting an accepted paper with reference to the course topics – known as course PSY9150P. The paper is due June 30th.

Exam resources

No special exam resources are allowed.

Assessment and grading

Students are awarded either a passing or a failing grade. Read more about the grading system .

Evaluation of this course

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