Psychological Statistics (Fall)

• Description

  The purpose of the course is for students to learn the basic principles of psychological research with an emphasis on hypothesis testing.

• Objectives

  1. Understand the basic principles of psychological research and hypothesis testing.

  2. Apply this information to various psychological research questions.

• Highlights

  1. Encouraging students approach research and math-related questions with confidence.

  2. Showing students the many ways that statistics principles inform everyday decisions.

• Relevance

  Viewing statistics as a problem solving or decision making tool reveals its wide-ranging applicability. Thus, every domain of life (e.g., familial, educational, recreational, professional) is informed by some principle underlying probability and hypothesis testing.

• Considerations

  1. Finding more ways for students to interact with and teach each other in class.

  2. Finding more ways to highlight the course’s everyday applicability.

Core Activities