Studyinfo subject MALKA214 2019 HØST
MALKA214 Experimental Design and Functional Analysis Course description
- Course name in Norwegian
- Eksperimentelle design og funksjonell analyse
- Study programme
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Masterstudium i atferdsvitenskap, deltid / Masterstudium i atferdsvitenskap - spesialisering i begreper og anvendelse
- Weight
- 10.0 ECTS
- Year of study
- 2019/2020
- Curriculum
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FALL
2019
- Schedule
- Programme description
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- Course history
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Required preliminary courses
Coursework requirements from MALK 4000-401, 4000- 402, 4000- 403, MALKA 211, MALKA 212 and MALKA 213 or equivalent must be approved to participate and submit coursework requirements in MALKA214.
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course, the student has the following learning outcomes
classified as knowledge, skills and competence:
Knowledge
The student
- can discuss experimental logic
- can discuss reliability
- can discuss the term generality
- can discuss validity, threats to inference, and different types of validity
- can explain the role of replications when employing experimental designs
- can discuss variability related to single subject designs and group-designs
- can describe and discuss advantages and disadvantages of various experimental designs
- can explain repeated measurements and when to conduct such measurements
- can describe how to conduct a component analysis to decide the effective components in treatments
- can consider how to conduct a parametric analysis to determine which values of consequences, like size and duration, are effective
- can describe fundamental elements of inferential statistics
- can describe and discuss functional analysis of behavior and describe how to conduct such analysis
- can describe the basic principles for hypothesis testing using the binominal and normal distributions
- can describe typical developmental milestones in children
Skills
The student
- can arrange simple experiments
- can interpret graphical displays of behavioral data and to present data in graphical form
Competence
The student
- can analyze data in a behavior change project
Content
Reliability; validity; generality; single subject designs; group designs; component analysis; descriptive and inferential statistics; functional analysis; developmental milestones in children.
Teaching and learning methods
The course will include lectures, exercises, and discussions of literature. The lectures will partly be based on interteaching sequences using literature from the curriculum. Students analyze the data collected in the self-management experiment in MALKA 211. Practical training in the execution and interpretation of functional analysis are included.
Course requirements
Students submit 2 written assignments according to the deadlines in the course schedule.
Assignment: describing an experiment from a case description, max 10 pages including references
Assignment: deliverables with different statistical calculations
Assessment
Individual written examination with invigilation, 4 hours.
Exam questions are in English. Students may submit their exams in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or English.
Permitted exam materials and equipment
None
Grading scale
A grading scale of A (highest) to F (lowest) where A to E is a pass grade and F is a fail grade
Examiners
One internal and one external examiner