This year, I have been contracted to teach and coordinate the course. As a coordinator, I:
- am fully responsible for the course administration and respond to the Head of School.
- manage and design the simultaneous on-campus and online course delivery.
- lead a team of five: a teaching assistant coordinator and four teaching assistants.
- assistant with student issues in general
- recruit volunteer academics with expertise in specialised areas (e.g., ethics or Maori research) to deliver some lectures
- design assessments and ensure their timely availability on Learn (Moodle)
As a lecturer:
- I teach 23 (about two third) of course lectures.
- I prepare material for these lectures.
- I seek out recent research on research methodology to use as required reading.
Lecture topics that I teach:
- Philosophy of Science
- Causality
- Frequentist statistics: t-test, ANOVA, regression, factor analysis
- Replication, power, effect size
- The New Statistics
- Robust Statistics
What changed compared to the last year?
Historically, PSYC344 did not have a textbook. and lecturers used to provide reading material for the class. I realised that such articles shared by a variety of lecturers, at times led to confusion among students due to conflicting information. Therefore, I decided to adopt a textbook to bring some level of uniformity and discipline. Since the range of topics in this course was not covered in a single book, I picked two required and one recommended textbook.
Historically, PSYC344 did not have a textbook. and lecturers used to provide reading material for the class. I realised that such articles shared by a variety of lecturers, at times led to confusion among students due to conflicting information. Therefore, I decided to adopt a textbook to bring some level of uniformity and discipline. Since the range of topics in this course was not covered in a single book, I picked two required and one recommended textbook.
