6 ECTS credits
180 h study time

Offer 2 with catalog number 1000358ANR for all students in the 1st semester at a (A) Bachelor - preliminary level.

Semester
1st semester
Enrollment based on exam contract
Impossible
Grading method
Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
Can retake in second session
Yes
Taught in
Dutch
Faculty
Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Department
Experimental and Applied Psychology
Educational team
Peter Theuns (course titular)
Alain Isaac
Jennifer De Cremer
Joyce Van Den Meersschaut
Tom Bylemans
Activities and contact hours
26 contact hours Lecture
26 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
30 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
Course Content

This course offers an overview of descriptive statistics.
Descriptive statistics aims to express the characteristic information which is included in data describing (a sample of) of a population.
Apart from that, relations between data can be discovered and estimations (estimations or predictions) can be made.
Everyone knows graphical representations of data and parameters such as the average. This course elaborates on the different properties data can have and the different methods which can be used to synthetise and interpret their most important characteristics (measurement scales, graphical representations, parameters of location, spread, symmetry and kurtosis, parameters for bidimensional distributions (like covariance and Pearson-, Spearman and Kendall coefficients of correlation), bivariate regression analysis and descriptive methods for time series).

Additional info

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Learning Outcomes

Algemene competenties

In the framework of statistics to:

1 bring a large knowledge of the bases of human sciences in the framework of a general education
2 lead to a critical attitude
3 initiate to be confident with new scientific knowledge
4 initiate to independent scientific research
5 learn to use recent informatic tools in collecting and treating information
6 learn to understand  mechanisms and  relations

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 100% of the final mark.

Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • Written exam with a relative weight of 100 which comprises 100% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

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Allowed unsatisfactory mark
The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context

This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Psychology: Profile Profile Work and Organisational Psychology (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Psychology: Initial track (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Psychology: Profile Profile Clinical psychology (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Adult Education: Profile Social Studies (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Adult Education: Profile Cultural Studies (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Adult Education: Abridged Profile Social Studies (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Adult Education: Initial track (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Adult Education: Abridged Profile Cultural Studies (only offered in Dutch)
Bridging Programme for Master of Science in Educational Sciences: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)
Schakelprogramma Master of Science in Educational Sciences: Exchange Ma Economics/Manageme (only offered in Dutch)