Saturday 12 October 2013

Psychology

Project description
This is a lab report based on a questionnaire study on grit. The assignment will be uploaded. Please read p.12-19 of the document and follow the structure of it. Moreover, some of the data-set must be displayed in SPSS, please tell me if you dont have the software.
This is the link of the questionnaire: http://uqpsych.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3mGn4eklTyPG8FT
What this assignment is about
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Preamble
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Task overview
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SECTION 2

What you have to do
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What are the aims of this assignment?
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How do I establish the validity of my new scale?
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How do I determine the reliability of my new scale?
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How do I evaluate the quality of individual items in my new scale?
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Calculating Item Discrimination Indices in SPSS (this is not covered in the SPSS video
lecture but your tutor will demonstrate this in
the Week 7 tutorial):
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Your ‘to do’ list

follow these steps
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SECTION 3

How you should write the report
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Warning against plagiarism and collusion
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General information
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Abstract
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Introduction
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Method
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Results
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Discussion
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References
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What should the report actually look like?
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Frequently asked questions
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How many references should I read?
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How many marks do I lose
if I hand in my work late without an extension?
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How do I apply for an extension?
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What do I do if I think my assignment has been unfairly marked?
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Specific information ab
out Grit
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SECTION 1

What this assignment is about
Preamble
For this assignment, we want you to imagine that you are a human measurement consultant
and that you have been recruited to help develop a new human
personality
measure. Your
reputation is of such a bloated magnitude that your employers were wretchedly gra
teful that you
condescended to assist them, despite the huge fee that you insisted on.
Your employers have hired a large team of behavioural scientists (i.e.
,
everyone currently
enrolled in PSYC3020) to develop a database of human
personality
measures.
Yo
u will be
working as part of a group of other scientists (your tutorial group) to develop just one of these
measures.
Your task is to focus solely on measuring this one
personality
trait, while other
groups will develop measures for the other traits. Once
each group has finished preparing their
measures, all the measures will be combined into one large questionnaire. We will then
ask
everyone enrolled in PSYC3020
to complete this questionnaire so that you can coll
ect
data
for
your measure.
You are then r
equested to analyse the data from your measure.
You only need to look at the
results for your measure, not the entire questionnaire

the other scientists will take care of their
respective measures.
Finally, you will be required to write a report evaluat
ing whether your measure was effective. If
you determine that the measure is valid and reliable, then your employer will be able to use it in
future work and your job will have been completed successfully. If your measure turns out not
to be reliable or
valid, then it’s not a problem. In this case, you are required to provide your
expert and informed opinion as to why you think this happened, so that it can be addressed in
future iterations of your measure (for which you will be able to charge extra).
Best of luck on your task. Remember

each tutorial group has a facilitator (the tutor) to guide
them through this development process.
Please
ask them for
help if you need it
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Task overview

You are going to design a measure to test a human
personality
trait.

Each of the tutorial groups has been assigned one
personality
trait to test.

Each group will
devise a brief (1
0
-
12
item) self
-
report
scale
to measure their trait.

All
scales
will be compiled into one giant questionnaire that will be c
ompleted online by
everyone in the course.

Each tutorial group will also choose some established
personality
trait
scale
s and other
variables to use as
validating variables
which will also be compiled into the overall
questionnaire
(up to 15 items can be
used for this)
.

You will use SPSS to analyse the
performance
of your own
scale
in the tutorials. You will
then write up your findings as an empirical report.

We
wi
ll be providing some background information on the
personality
trait for your tutorial,
along
with some s
tarting
references, later in the handout.

Your new
scale
may be inspired by previous attempts in the literature but must contain all
original items and must have some sort of advantage over (or conceptual difference to) the
previous attempts.
Advantages could include that your
scale
is shorter, or longer
(potentially greater reliability), or is more appropriate for an Australian population
compared with previous
scales
.

Here’s a diagram of the process of designing a measure
(presented in Lectur
es 1 and 5)
:
2. Create the
materials
needed
1. Decide
what
you

re going to
measure,
why
you
want to measure it,
and
how
you

re
going to measure it
3. Design and run
studies to assess the
validity, reliability,
standardisation, and
item quality.
4. If it all works,
consider improving
your measure using
the data from your
item analyses.
5. Release your new
measure into the wild
and watch it run free,
improving the world
forever.
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