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PSYC4125: Advanced Psychometrics
2025 unit information
Studying psychology means posing problems, generating hypotheses, designing experiments observing human behaviour, testing your hypotheses, interpreting and evaluating data, and determining how to follow up on your findings. This unit of study will expand your knowledge of core conceptual, statistical and analytical approaches available to the broad research areas in psychology and related disciplines. You will investigate fundamental issues surrounding psychological measurement and hypothesis testing. Hands on experience will be gained in the application of statistics and psychometrics to the types of data commonly collected in psychological research. By undertaking this unit you will develop a critical and analytical approach towards measurement and psychometric theories, and an understanding of statistical techniques based on the general linear model.
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| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Psychology Academic Operations |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Critically and analytically appraise measurement and psychometrics
- LO2. Elucidate conceptual issues relating to probability, null hypothesis significance testing, and the empirical meaning of parameters in statistical models
- LO3. Critically and analytically appraise Bayesian methods
- LO4. Critically and analytically appraise qualitative methods
- LO5. Evaluate the methods, instruments used and data gathered from non-experimental research and undertake item analysis as part of scale development
- LO6. Apply the concepts of validity and reliability concepts to practical applications of testing
- LO7. Interpret exploratory and confirmatory factor analytic techniques
- LO8. Identify and deduce experimental design issues including control of variability, confounding and bias, power and effect sizes
- LO9. Use multivariate analyses, analysis of variance, multiple regression analyses, logistic regression and multi-level modelling
- LO10. Use effect and contrast coding to test statistical hypotheses using general linear model
- LO11. Analyse data and interpret output in a scientifically meaningful way
- LO12. Explain the limitations and shortcomings of psychometric and statistical models, packages and inferences.
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Semester 1 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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Additional advice
This unit must be taken by all Psychology Honours students as it is part of the accredited pathway.
