Courses Handbook 2010

1917 (v.6) Research Methods 112


Area: School of Psychology
Credits: 12.5
Contact Hours: 1.8
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Workshop: 1 x 1.5 Hours Fortnightly
Syllabus: Introduction to descriptive and inferential statistics as well as the SPSS computer-based statistical package. Selected topics covered include measurement, central tendency and variability, the normal distribution, z-scores, the t-test, one-way analysis of variance, bivariate correlation and the chi-square test and non-parametric alternatives.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 090799 Behavioural Science not elsewhere classified
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Essential
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2010 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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