IIRF Online > Teaching & Academics > Other Teaching & Academics > Research Methods > APA: Quantitative Research Methods
APA: Quantitative Research Methods by Edx
Principles of research design important for obtaining reliable, valid results in psychological research are introduced, including practices for definition and measurement of variables, sampling of individuals from populations of interest, and myriad other factors. Ethical issues related to research are also explored, with thorough coverage of the rules, regulations, and expectations researchers must follow with the individuals they study and in analyzing and reporting their results.
Course Highlights
- Describe the steps of the scientific method.
- Explain how to judge the quality of a source for a literature review.
- Compare and contrast the kinds of research questions scientists ask.
- Specify how variables are defined.
- Explain what it means for an observation to be reliable.
- Compare and contrast the major research designs.
- Compare and contrast forms of validity as they apply to the major research designs.
- Illustrate the history of ethical concerns about scientific research using specific examples.
- Describe purposes served by codes of research ethics.
- Explain the five general Ethical Principles of the APA Ethics Code.
- Describe the issues addressed by the APA Ethical Standards that apply to researchers.
- Explain how IRBs and IACUCs operate.
- Outline the major ethical considerations in planning a research study using nonhuman animals.
- Explain the importance of the three Rs in animal research.
- Explain the protections ethics codes offer for human participants in research.
- Describe the implications of WEIRD participants being overrepresented in psychological research.
- Identify the consequences of the different types of fraud in research.
- Explain how replication and preregistration address the problems of p-hacking and HARKing.
- Apply your knowledge of ethical violations and propose solutions for real-life research.
Skills you will learn!
APA: Quantitative Research Methods
Related Research Methods Courses
Thank You!
Your review has been submitted successfully.