Module Catalogue 2024/25

SPE2040 : Research Methods in Practice II (Inactive)

SPE2040 : Research Methods in Practice II (Inactive)

  • Inactive for Year: 2024/25
  • Module Leader(s): Prof. James Law
  • Owning School: Education, Communication & Language Sci
  • Teaching Location: Newcastle City Campus
Semesters

Your programme is made up of credits, the total differs on programme to programme.

Semester 2 Credit Value: 10
ECTS Credits: 5.0
European Credit Transfer System
Pre-requisite

Modules you must have done previously to study this module

Pre Requisite Comment

N/A

Co-Requisite

Modules you need to take at the same time

Co Requisite Comment

N/A

Aims

To enable students to:
1.design experiments
2.formulate hypotheses
3.collect evidence
4.use statistics to evaluate the implications of the evidence
5.write up investigations in standard research lab report format

This is a stage II statistics and methods course with an emphasis on analysis of variance and regression analyses. The course also contains practical laboratory sessions where students generate data, analyse it and practise reporting experiments in standard quantitative lab report format. The course is taught with materials tailored to speech language science students.

Outline Of Syllabus

Syllabus:
1.Logic of analysis of variance
2.Using SPSS for independent measures ANOVA
3.Using SPSS for repeated measures ANOVA
4.Correlation and regression
5.Using SPSS for multiple regression
6.Selecting statistical tests
7.Writing up of laboratory reports

Learning Outcomes

Intended Knowledge Outcomes

How to select the correct versions of analyses of variance according to data generated, how to carry out these analyses using SPSS, how to interpret data correctly and how to write up in standard report form. Ditto for correlation and regression analyses.

Intended Skill Outcomes

Development of Key Skills:
Computer literacy, SPSS, numeracy. Systematic observation, data collection, data analysis, report writing.

Teaching Methods

Teaching Activities
Category Activity Number Length Student Hours Comment
Scheduled Learning And Teaching ActivitiesLecture121:0012:00N/A
Guided Independent StudyAssessment preparation and completion130:0030:00N/A
Scheduled Learning And Teaching ActivitiesPractical201:0020:00N/A
Scheduled Learning And Teaching ActivitiesDissertation/project related supervision21:002:00Class
Guided Independent StudyIndependent study136:0036:00N/A
Total100:00
Teaching Rationale And Relationship

The lecture sessions introduce essential theories, facts and techniques. The practical sessions work with both given scenarios and new data generated by experiments carried out in class to derive data sets that students have to analyse using computer/statistical skills acquired in year 1 and the lectures of year II. Report writing is further practised through write-ups of the 4 x 2 hour experiment practicals.

Reading Lists

Assessment Methods

The format of resits will be determined by the Board of Examiners

Other Assessment
Description Semester When Set Percentage Comment
Practical/lab report2M75An open book computer based practical examination
Practical/lab report2M25Two written lab reports, based on classroom experiments: one formative(wk 4), one summative (wk 8)
Assessment Rationale And Relationship

The class test assesses skills in identifying from a scenario the data to be sued, the appropriate statistical test to use to answer a given scenario/question and carrying out the analyses using SPSS.
The laboratory sessions and associated write-ups practice hypothesis formation/testing, data generation and gathering, analysis and interpretation of the data and write up of results in standard format.

Timetable

Past Exam Papers

General Notes

N/A

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