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Quantitative and Psychometric Methods
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| Students must bring the text and the clicker to each class meeting. Students should also bring jump drives to each class. |
Survey of psychometric theory of correlational analysis, norms, reliability, validity and item analysis. Topics also discussed include fundamental descriptive statistics and an introduction to inferential statistics. Semester Goals include:
 | Students develop an appreciation for the rationale and utility of psychometric methods. |
| Understand probability and probability distributions. |
| Differentiate between quantitative and qualitative data. |
| Emphasize reliance on empirical procedures in research and evaluation. |
| Learn to use a spreadsheet program for actual manipulation of data. |
| Be able to describe data using charts and numbers. |
| Understand the basic principles of inferential statistics. |
Final Grades will be determined as follows:
| Three exams | 45% | A | 90-100 | C | 70-76 | |
| Final Exam | 20% | B+ | 87-89 | D+ | 67-79 | |
| Homework | 15% | B | 80-86 | D | 60-66 | |
| Quizzes | 10% | C+ | 77-79 | F | <60 | |
| Paper | 10% |
The FMU catalog states: "It is the responsibility of the student to attend all scheduled meetings in the courses in which he/she is enrolled." Students missing more than six (6) classes (excused or unexcused) will be dropped from the class with a grade of NC or W. Make-up exams will be given to students with appropriate written excuses only on April 23, the last day of classes.
The material may be difficult so I administer quizzes as an incentive for reading the assignments. I will drop the lowest score for those who take all the quizzes. Due to the nature of the material exams will be cumulative.
PSY 206, 216 Math 134, CS150 , prerequisite/corequisite
| Week | Tentative Schedule | Reading in | |
| Week | Begin Date | Subject | Privitera |
| 1 | 7-Jan | Scientific Thinking, Essence of Method | 1 |
| 2 | 14-Jan | Describing distributions | 2, 3 |
| 3 | 21-Jan | Normal Distributions & Standard Scores | 4, 6 |
| 4 | 28-Jan | Scatterplots, Correlation | 15 |
| 5 | 4-Feb | Sampling Distributions, Exam 1 | 7 |
| 6 | 11-Feb | Confidence intervals | 11 |
| 7 | 18-Feb | Hypothesis tests | 8 |
| 8 | 25-Feb | One-sample and Matched pairs t-tests | 10 |
| 10 | 3-Mar | Two-sample t-tests, APA reporting of results, exam 2 | 9 |
| 11 | 10-Mar | Effect Size | |
| 12 | 17-Mar | ------ Spring Break, Yeah! -------- | |
| 13 | 24-Mar | Inference for Proportions, Mann-Whitney, Reports Due | 578-599 |
| 14 | 31-Mar | Chi Square, two-way tables | 17 |
| 15 | 7-Apr | Inference for Regression, | 16 |
| 16 | 14-Apr | Reliability, Validity and Item Analysis | |
| 21-Apr | |||
| Final Exam, Wednesday April 24, 2013 3-5 p.m. | |||
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