Time Schedule:
Brian P Flaherty
PSYCH 548
Seattle Campus
Intensive readings from the current literature on an emerging topic or theoretical perspective in quantitative psychology. Student presentations and discussion. Prerequisite: graduate standing in Psychology or permission of instructor.
Class description
There doesn't appear to be a way to distinguish the different courses I'll teach under the 548 number, so the description of my factor analysis and structural equation models course has been here for the measurement class I'll teach Fall 2008. Here's a tentative list of topics for the measurement course:
- measurement overview and goals - reliability & validity - parallel items, congeneric, etc. - classical treatments - modern views as well - generalizability theory - measurement models - factor model - item response model - latent class model - others - general mixture models possibly The focus will be on understanding models and assumptions, plausibility of a model for phenomena of interest, use and interpretation. I'm very interested in promoting correspondence between the statistical model and phenomena of interest.
Student learning goals
General method of instruction
Readings, lecture and discussion, worked data examples, own data analysis and writing/presenting these techniques.
Recommended preparation
Comfortable with multiple regression. This course is planned to follow the two quarter psychology grad. stat. sequence.
Class assignments and grading
Ideally, bring your own data to use for the class. Will successively develop analytic plan, conduct analyses, write up and present results.
Own data analysis, write up and presentation; class participation.
