COURSE UNIT TITLE

: QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS IN PSYCHOLOGY*

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
PSI 5025 QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS IN PSYCHOLOGY* COMPULSORY 3 0 0 9

Offered By

PSYCHOLOGY

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GÜLAY DIRIK

Offered to

PSYCHOLOGY

Course Objective

The main aim of the course is to make an introduction statistical tehcniques and quantitative and relational research methods. In addition, to teach designing research individually, planning, gathering data, analyzing the datas statistically and finally making reports of the results are the specific goals of this course.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Be able to apply statistical methods commonly used in relational research
2   Be able to remember the statistical tests that used commonly in relational research
3   Be able to make a research design on an issue associated with psychology
4   Be able to develop research questions and hypothesis related psychology
5   Be able to apply proper statistical methods used in psychological research
6   Be able to gather data by using different measurement techniques and interpret the results.
7   Be able to make reports research findings in an appropriate scripting language

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introducing the course contents
2 Scientific Research Process
3 Critical literature review, development of hypothesis and strategy
4 Selection of the study sample and sampling techniques
5 Data collection
6 Screening and cleaning the data: SPSS applications; Datacoding, data entering etc.
7 Online survey
8 Midterm Exam
9 Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Design
10 Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Design
11 Reliability and validity of psychological measurement tools
12 Reliability and validity of psychological measurement tools
13 Writing report
14 Writing report

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Büyüköztürk, Ş. (2008). Bilimsel Araştırma Yöntemleri. Ankara: Pegem Akademi
2. Creswell, J., W. (2009). Research design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches.Los Angles: Sage.
3. Cohen, L. Manion, L., Morrison, K. (2007). Research methods in education. London:Routledge.
4. Erkuş, A. (2009). Davranış bilimleri için bilimsel araştırma süreci. Ankara: Seçkin yayıncılık.
5. Singh, K. (). Quantitative social research methods. Los Angles: Sage.
6. Yıldırım, A. & Şimşek, H. (2005). Sosyal Bilimlerde Nitel Araştırma Yöntemleri (5.basım). Ankara: Seçkin Yayıncılık.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Explaining, question-answer, discussion, search, homework

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 + STT * 0.30 + FIN* 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.50

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

abbas.turnuklu@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 6 3 18
Lectures 8 3 24
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 8 112
Final 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 7 4 28
Preparation for quiz etc. 1 15 15
Final 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 220

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.155
LO.2554
LO.35
LO.454
LO.5554
LO.65
LO.75

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