Psychometrics and Interview Skills and Psychometric critic

Code

PSTY5011

School

Psychiatry and Applied Psychology

Level

5

Credits

10

Semesters

Autumn UK

Summary

Advanced techniques of interviews, assessments and analyses in applied psychology, with emphasis on the role psychometric assessment. Qualitative research processes with small samples, methods of behavioural observation and their analysis with advanced statistics.

Target Students

D.Foren.Psy. (Doctorate in Forensic Psychology)

Co-requisites

Modules you must take in the same academic year, or have taken in a previous year, to enrol in this module:

• Forensic Practice Placement Reports 1 & 2 (PSTY5008)

Classes

• One 6-hour workshop

Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes place in some weeks of a Semester.

Assessment

• 100% Coursework 1: Evaluation and critique of a psychometric measure or method 4,000 words max

Assessed by end of autumn semester

Educational Aims

Learning Outcomes

by the end of the module the trainees will be able:
•To carry out advanced research and evaluation methods based on sound statistical theory. For example, logistic regression or discriminate functional analysis to determine hits, misses, false positives and false negatives in relation risk assessment in a forensic population or the development of typologies from cluster analysis and multi-dimensional scaling.
 

•To identify appropriate research questions from the forensic literature, to translate those into scientific hypotheses and to design, plan, implement and report at a Doctorate level of research project of publishable quality.
 

•To devise interview methods and carry out interviews ethically with the use of psychometric assessments.
 

•To appreciate the use of qualitative research approaches on small samples.
 

•To understand the application of statistics to offender profiling and the use of facet theory.

Conveners

• Dr Vincent Egan