PHVIT9300 Kvantitative metoder Emneplan

The course covers key theoretical and ethical issues in behavior analysis research. Key strategies and tactics of behavior analysis and single case research. Topics such as measurement, design, internal and external validity, and interpretation will be emphasized. The alignment of single-case research methods with empirically supported treatments will be covered.

General admission requirements for the Ph.D. Degree in Health Sciences.

The course can also be offered to students who have been admitted to the "Health Science Research Programme, 60 ECTS", by prior approval from the supervisor and based on given guidelines for the research programme.

On completion of the course, the PhD candidate has achieved the following learning outcomes, defined in terms of knowledge, skills, and general competence:

Knowledge

The PhD candidate can

• critically assess methods relevant to collecting and interpreting data
• assess of data collection methods’ appropriateness for answering research questions
• give examples and explain the difference between withdrawal and reversal designs
• give examples of the use of multiple baseline designs and alternating treatment designs
• give examples of direct, systematic, and clinical replication procedures

Skills

The PhD candidate can

• discuss basic principles for selecting an appropriate baseline
• discuss the rationale for single-case research designs
• discuss different recording techniques and their application criteria
• discuss different strategies for dealing with variability in data
• discuss criteria for validity and reliability and methods of assessing them
• discuss criteria for using different types of withdrawal designs
• conduct visual and statistical analysis of the effect of independent variables in single-case research designs

General competence

The PhD candidate can

• describe and discuss criteria for empirically supported treatment
• briefly outline the history of basic and applied single-case research
• discuss criteria for selecting behavior to assess (social, clinical, organizational, and personal significance)

• All papers approved
• attendance in at least 80 % of the seminars, and
• approved paper presentation in final seminar.

This course is primarily aimed at PhD candidates admitted to the PhD Programme in Health Sciences but is also open to other applicants. Admission requirements are a completed major, master's degree (120 credits) or equivalent qualification.

The course can also be offered to students who have been admitted to the "Health Science Research Programme, 60 ECTS", by prior approval from the supervisor and based on given guidelines for the research programme.

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The entrepreneurship project: The student will carry out an IT project in collaboration with a relevant start-up company, individually or in groups of maximum five students. Completion of the course requires a placement in an IT start-up company corresponding to two days a week over a 12-week period. If the project is carried out during the summer, the work must correspond to four days a week over a six-week period.

OsloMet will help individual or groups of students to get in touch with a start-up company that has a suitable project. The company must provide an approved IT entrepreneurship project and a competent supervisor. Furthermore, OsloMet will provide an internal supervisor at OsloMet. The students will develop a prototype for a product that is relevant for the start-up company, or develop and implement new functionality in the technology of the start-up company.

In addition to the projects on offer, students can find their own projects within a relevant company, public organization or nonprofit. In this case, it is the student's responsibility to find a supervisor for the project within the external organization. All student-initiated projects must be approved by the course coordinator before the start of the project.

The course will only run if there is a sufficient number of students registered.

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and competence:

Knowledge

The student:

• has become familiar with key issues relating to innovation and entrepreneurship
• understands business processes and organisational structures in a start-up company
• has acquired a basic overview of financing and support possibilities for start-up companies
• has acquired insight into innovation processes and technological development from idea to prototype
• understand the role and importance of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals in the development of new technological solutions.

Skills

The student is capable of:

• developing a product or service from the idea, design and development stages through to implementation and evaluation of a prototype
• independently completing an IT project within the framework of a start-up company and mastering basic issues that characterise entrepreneurship processes
• communicating, in written and oral form, the technical and business-related issues of relevance to the theme of the project, including the project plan, project activities and results, to an audience that may or may not be technologically proficient
• developing new solutions that explicitly address one or several of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals

General competence

The student is capable of:

• using technical principles to solve one or more problems of relevance to the business sector
• defining a problem and proposing possible innovative solutions
• evaluating the importance of organisational dynamics and work relations in start-up companies