psy121 - Psychological assessment and diagnostics (Course overview)

psy121 - Psychological assessment and diagnostics (Course overview)

Department of Psychology 12 KP
Module components Semester courses Wintersemester 2022/2023 Examination
Lecture
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In both terms, lectures and seminars will alternate to intermingle theoretical and applied contents.
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Seminar
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In both terms, lectures and seminars will alternate to intermingle theoretical and applied contents.
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  • No access 6.02.121_3_ a - The Assessment Process applied - part 1 Show lecturers
    • Dr. Andreas Hellmann
    • Nadine Schenke
    • Prof. Dr. Mandy Roheger

    Friday: 10:15 - 11:45, weekly (from 20/01/23)
    Dates on Friday, 25.11.2022, Friday, 09.12.2022 10:15 - 11:45
    Case conceptualization, single case testing and diagnosing and writing a psychological testing report. 20 students can take part in this seminar. In case more students will sign up, we will select students by lot who will be moved to the alternative seminar 6.02.121_2_b Test construction applied.
  • No access 6.02.121_3_ b - Test construction applied - part 1 Show lecturers
    • Prof. Dr. Andrea Hildebrandt

    Thursday: 12:15 - 13:45, weekly (from 19/01/23)
    Dates on Thursday, 24.11.2022, Thursday, 08.12.2022, Thursday, 22.12.2022 12:15 - 13:45
    Test construction, item analyses and scaling 25 students can take part in this seminar. In case more students will sign up, we will select students by lot who will be moved to the alternative seminar 6.02.121_2_a The assessment process applied.
Hinweise zum Modul
Prerequisites
Enrolment in Master's programme Neurocognitive Psychology.
Prüfungszeiten
Parts of the practical exercise need to be completed and handed in at specific dates during winter and summer term.
Module examination
The module will be tested by a practical exercise (test application and protocol / test construction).

Required active participation for gaining credits:
  • 1-2 presentations or test executions
  • handing in parts of the final report during the term
  • participation in discussions on other presentations
  • attendance of at least 70% in the seminars (will be checked in StudIP).
Skills to be acquired in this module
Goals of module:
Students will acquire specific knowledge about psychological assessment, test theory and test construction, and will be trained to utilize this knowledge within a research or test development context and in applied settings. With respect to research applications they will learn about traditional and modern test theories and about their usage in the domain of applied psychometrics and the systematic design of interviews and observational methods. From the perspective of applied assessment, students will reflect on the assessment process as a whole. They will learn how to analyze cases (“case conceptualization”), how to plan and conduct the information assessment phase, how to record and summarize collected data and how to integrate across the multitude of information in order to draw conclusions about the case given specific diagnostic strategies (status vs. process assessment and norm oriented vs. criterion oriented assessment, including classificatory decisions). Finally, students will learn about the requirements of test and assessment report generation in written an oral form given a specific applied context. Ethical guidelines and quality norms will be an implicit topic in all courses in the module.

Competencies:
+ Neuropsychological / neurophysiological knowledge
+ interdisciplinary kowledge & thinking
+ ethics / good scientific practice / professional behavior
+ critical & analytical thinking