Aims

- to determine the aims and constraints of an observation
- to design and apply an observation grid
- to assess the accuracy of the collected informations
- to design and apply a survey form
- to develop a table with the collected data and extract from it the main descriptive statistics (simple sorting and crossed sorting)

Main themes

Exercises to design and apply the observation methods in psychology and in education (observation grids and questionnaires).
Exercises of descriptive treatment of the collected data.

Content and teaching methods

Content:
- building of an observation grid in educational, clinical and research context
- exercises of observation and inter-judges agreement
- building of survey forms
- analysis of the data from observations and from questionnaires (design of a data table and descriptive analysis)

Method:
The course will include exercises about the use of the observation methods, about the data collection, about their coding and about their descriptive treatment.

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

This course is coordinated with two other courses of the same "block": "Statistics" and "Introduction to the methods of Psychological examination"

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