COURSE UNIT TITLE

: STATISTICS I

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
RPD 2003 STATISTICS I COMPULSORY 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Guidance and Psychological Counseling

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR BURAK KARABEY

Offered to

Guidance and Psychological Counseling

Course Objective

Explain the statistical methods and use these methods.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Define the importance of statistics in research .
2   Define the necessity of the appropriate use of statistical applications in research
3   List the basic terms related with statistics
4   the analysis related with descriptive statistics that can be necessary to solve the research problem
5   Apply the simple correlation and regression analysis

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The definitions and the importance of statistics in research
2 The types of variables and the types of scales
3 The universe and sample, parameter and statistics
4 The symbol and some of its statistical features
5 Descriptive and inferential statistics
6 Percents and quartiles
7 The arrangement of the data, to list the data, frequency, graphics
8 Mid-term exam
9 The arrangement of the data, to list the data, frequency, graphics
10 Arithmetic mean and median
11 Mode, mean, median, and the relationship of them with mode
12 Percents and quartiles
13 The criteria for variables, range, the deviation of mean, variance, standard deviation, skewness and kurtosis
14 Standard scores
15 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Aron, A. and E.N. Aron. (1999). Statistics for Psychology. New Jersey: Prentice Hall., Inc.
2. Brase, C. H. and C. P. Brase. (2006). Understandable Statistics, Concept and Methods. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.
3. Davis, S.F. and R.A. Smith. (2005). An Introduction to Statistics and Research Methods, Becoming a Psychological Detective. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, Inc.
4. Ferguson, G.A. (1981). Statistical Analysis in Psychology and Education. New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc.
5. Arıcı, H. (1997). Istatistik. Ankara: Meteksan Yayınları.
6. Baykul, Y. (2000). Istatistik ve Uygulamalar. Ankara: Anı Yayıncılık.
7. Köklü ve Büyüköztürk (2000). Sosyal Bilimler Için Istatistiğe Giriş. Ankara: PegemA Yayıncılık.
Spiegel, M.R. ve L.J. Stephens. (1999). Istatistik. Çeviren: A. Esin ve S. Çelebioğlu. Ankara: Nobel Yayıncılık.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Explaining, question-answer, discussion, search

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FINS FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 +FINS * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST* 0.60

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Midterm Exam
Paper/Presentation
Final Exam

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 25 25
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 117

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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