La mesure en psychologie (questionnaires, tests, modèles structuraux)
[PSYM2111]
[60h] 6 credits
This course is taught in the 1st semester.
Teacher(s): Jacques Grégoire, Guy Lories, Massimo Penta(supplée Jacques Grégoire)
Language: French
Level: Second
Aims
To master the key concepts and statistical tools for the development of a scale of measure, including the factorial analysis and the structural models of equations.
Main themes
- To understand the postulates, concepts and conditions of implementation of the Item Response Model (IRM), in particular the model of Rasch.
- To master basic procedures of traditional analysis and IRM, including the interpretation of the results.
- To understand the postulates, concepts and conditions of implementation of the factorial analysis including confirmatory and the structural models of equations in the problems of measurement.
- To master the basic procedures of the factorial analysis and the structural models of equations in these problems.
Content and teaching methods
- The model of Rasch and new methods of selection of items.
- Factorial Analysis, structural models of equations
The course is composed of lectures, readings of articles, an initiation to the use of software (in particular SPSS, LISREL ) and real data analysis by the students themselves. On the basis of a theoretical and methodological framework, the students are invited to be more and more active in the analysis and the interpretation of data.
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