Магистратура 2021/2022

Научно-исследовательский семинар "Экономическая и организационная психология"

Статус: Курс по выбору (Прикладная социальная психология)

Направление: 37.04.01. Психология

Кто читает: Департамент психологии

Где читается: Факультет социальных наук

Когда читается: 1-й курс, 1-4 модуль

Формат изучения: без онлайн-курса

Охват аудитории: для своего кампуса

Преподаватели: Дубров Дмитрий Игоревич, Ефремова Мария Викторовна, Титов Александр Сергеевич

Прогр. обучения: Прикладная социальная психология

Язык: английский

Кредиты: 8

Контактные часы: 116

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course is designed for master students, and is based on the previously learned courses (“Social psychology”, “Cross-cultural psychology”, “Research Methods in Psychology” and “Experimental psychology”). The research seminar of the 1st year is aimed to facilitate students' work during first several stages of planning and conducting the research. During the 1st year students will learn about the standards of contemporary scientific research, will know how to plan and organize their own research in the area of economic and organizational psychology, will develop their own project proposals, will train to create convincing presentations of their studies in order to participate in the scientific discussion. During the second year, students consistently prepare their master's theses and discuss with teacher and group parts of their work: plan of empirical research, research tools, results of preliminary mathematical processing, final results of mathematical processing, text of the dissertation. Novelty of this two-years course lies in the facts that (1) the course is aimed to integrate international and Russian standards of scientific work, which is a new practice in the training of master students in the field of psychology in Russia; (2) the integration is achieved through the adjustment of APA standards for conducting and presenting psychological study to the requirements of Higher School of Economics for master’s thesis; (3) course format is usual for master students training in Higher School of Economics, however it does not have analogues for master students training in “Economic and Organizational Psychology” area in Russia. Methodical novelty of the course may be explained in terms of (1) use of reviews as an instrument for understanding and differentiating a good quality research; (2) group discussions at all stages of the development of students’ research projects (this gives students a unique opportunity to receive feedback not only from teachers, but also from the group, which helps to understand the weaknesses of the project, and improve it); (3) all work is organized in a way that students can always connect the tasks with their own research interest, which increases students’ motivation significantly.

Learning Objectives

• To introduce to students the international standarts of good quolity research in the field of economic and organizational psychology;
• To develop students' abilities to participate in the scientific discussion;
• To help students to develop their own research projects;
• To teach students how to plan and organize their own research.
• To develop skills for theoretical analysis in the field of economic and organizational psychology;
• The 2nd year research seminar is aimed to introduce the international standards of good quality research in the field of economic and organizational psychology to students. During the seminar students will learn how to develop their own research projects, how to plan and organize their own research in the area of economic and organizational psychology. They also will obtain the skills of participation in scientific discussions. Specific topics addressed are: (1) Relevance of methods and data processing to hypotheses of the study; (2) Development a questionnaire or design of experiment for main study; (3) Development of the project proposal: revised structure and content; (4) Development of a timetable with the description on stages and timing of main research; (5) Data collection and analysis; (6) Finalizing of master theses; (7) Development of the skills of presentation of master theses.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Students are able to understand whether the selected design is adequate to test the proposed hypotheses
• Students are able to use in their research the latest methods of mathematical- statistical data (SEM, multilevel analysis).
• Students possess techniques of group discussions, brainstorming to discuss novelty of master dissertation, formulation of research problem, and research hypotheses.
• Are able to critically analyze existing theories and articles in order to generate own text Are able to structure scientific text in a coherent way
• Are able to formulate problem statement, research questions, and hypotheses of the proposed study. Know how to develop their own research projects
• Are able to participate in the scientific discussion; Are able to present effectively the results of the study.
• Know how to plan and organize their own research Are able to describe and justify chosen research design and methodology.
• Know the international standards of high quality research in the fields of economic and organizational psychology Are able to assess critically perspectives, scientific and societal relevance of particular research directions
• Students are able to critically analyse their preliminary obtained results
• Students are able to critically analyze and discuss empirical methods of each student’ thesis
• Students are able to describe of methods, sample and time frames of the empirical study
• Students begin to collect empirical data after approval of the study plan at the workshop.
• Successful preliminary defense of students' theses
• Sudents are able to assess the correctness of applying the selected processing methods to the data, which were obtained

Course Contents

• Topic 1. Introduction: Standards and evaluation criteria of academic work
• First year, topic 1. Writing an introduction
• First year, topic 2. Writing a theoretical overview: information search and quality standards
• First year, topic 3. Research design and methods in social psychology
• First year, topic 4. Finalizing a year essay
• Second year, topic 1. Introduction. Presentation of the theoretical bases of master study. Formulation of hypotheses
• Second year, topic 2. Writing and discussing the plan-prospect of the research in the master thesis
• Second year, topic 3. Measurement instruments
• Second year, topic 4. Methodological part of dissertation.
• Second year, topic 5. Discussing research design of the master thesis
• Second year, topic 6. Discussing final plan of empirical study of master thesis
• Second year, topic 7. Presentation of first results of mathematical-statistical analysis from empirical study
• Second year, topic 8. Presentation of final results of mathematical-statistical analysis from empirical study
• Second year, topic 9. Preliminary defense of the master thesis

Assessment Elements

• Preliminary defence
  Students defend their thesis
• Homework 1
• Homework 2
• Homework3
• Homework 1
• Homework 2
• Paticiparion in class activity
  Students may get detailed feedback from the tutors on particular parts of their term paper during the relevant class activities or during the consultations. However, tutors will not give any feedback just in a written form via e-mail except for some special cases related with students absence due to some valid reason.
• Homework 1
  No detailed feedback is provided after the task - only grades. However, students have the possibility to get comments from tutors during the class activities dedicated to the discussion of relevant parts of term paper drafts or during the consultations. If a student fails the deadline for this home task, his final grade for the relevant test will be lowered following the rule 1 day equals 1 point (out of 10). The same rule works with each retake of the relevant home task. One retake minus 1 point.
• Homework 2
  No detailed feedback is provided after the task - only grades. However, students have the possibility to get comments from tutors during the class activities dedicated to the discussion of relevant parts of term paper drafts or during the consultations. If a student fails the deadline for this home task, his final grade for the relevant test will be lowered following the rule 1 day equals 1 point (out of 10). No detailed feedback is provided after the task - only grades. However, students have the possibility to get comments from tutors during the class activities dedicated to the discussion of relevant parts of term paper drafts or during the consultations. If a student fails the deadline for this home task, his final grade for the relevant test will be lowered following the rule 1 day equals 1 point (out of 10). The same rule works with each retake of the relevant home task. One retake minus 1 point.
• Homework 3
  No detailed feedback is provided after the task - only grades. However, students have the possibility to get comments from tutors during the class activities dedicated to the discussion of relevant parts of term paper drafts or during the consultations. If a student fails the deadline for this home task, his final grade for the relevant test will be lowered following the rule 1 day equals 1 point (out of 10). No detailed feedback is provided after the task - only grades. However, students have the possibility to get comments from tutors during the class activities dedicated to the discussion of relevant parts of term paper drafts or during the consultations. If a student fails the deadline for this home task, his final grade for the relevant test will be lowered following the rule 1 day equals 1 point (out of 10). The same rule works with each retake of the relevant home task. One retake minus 1 point.
• Homework 4
  No detailed feedback is provided after the task - only grades. However, students have the possibility to get comments from tutors during the class activities dedicated to the discussion of relevant parts of term paper drafts or during the consultations. If a student fails the deadline for this home task, his final grade for the relevant test will be lowered following the rule 1 day equals 1 point (out of 10). No detailed feedback is provided after the task - only grades. However, students have the possibility to get comments from tutors during the class activities dedicated to the discussion of relevant parts of term paper drafts or during the consultations. If a student fails the deadline for this home task, his final grade for the relevant test will be lowered following the rule 1 day equals 1 point (out of 10). The same rule works with each retake of the relevant home task. One retake minus 1 point.
• Predefence of term paper
  In the period of pandemic pre-defense is conducted on the MS Teams platform. Students must connect to the pre-defense according to the schedule of presentations created beforehand. The student's computer must meet the following requirements: a working camera and microphone, and MS Teams support. To participate in the pre-defense, the student must: appear for the pre-defense according to the exact schedule, and turn on the camera and microphone when answering. During the pre-defense, students can turn off the camera only if its use worsen the connection, and can use notes. A short-term connection failure is considered to be any connection failure during the pre-defense which gives student a possibility to continue showing the presentation of the term paper during the scheduled time. A long-term connection failure is considered to be a connection failure which doesn’t give student any possibility to continue showing the presentation of the term paper during the scheduled time. If there is a long-term connection failure, the student cannot continue to participate in the pre-defense. The retake procedure involves the use of the same task and procedure.
• Homework 1
  Only students who have passed the first home task are allowed to take the first test.
• Homework 2
• Homework 3
• Test on the 4th topic
  Only students who have passed the 4th home task are allowed to take the 4th test.

Interim Assessment

• 2021/2022 4th module
  Students are required to pass 1-4 hometasks in order to get possibility to write the 1-4 tests. The grades for the 1-4 hometasks can be either 0 or 1. The formula of the final grade for the course is 0.15*grade for the 1st test*grade for the 1st home task + 0.15*grade for the 2nd test*grade for the 2nd home task + 0.15*grade for the 3rd test*grade for the 3rd home task + 0.15*grade for the 4th test*grade for the 4th home task+ 0.20*grade for class activity + 0.20*grade for pre-defense.
• 2022/2023 2nd module
  0.3 * Homework 3 + 0.1 * Homework 2 + 0.3 * Homework 2 + 0.1 * Homework 1 + 0.1 * Homework 1 + 0.1 * Homework3
• 2022/2023 3rd module
  0.4 * Preliminary defence + 0.3 * Homework 1 + 0.3 * Homework 2

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

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Recommended Additional Bibliography

• CRĂCIUN, A. (2014). Fundamental Statistics for Behavioral Sciences. Romanian Journal of Experimental Applied Psychology, 5(2), 61–62. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=asn&AN=118569304
• Gavin, H. (2008). Understanding Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology. Los Angeles: SAGE Publications Ltd. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=518813
• Green, B. N., Johnson, C. D., & Adams, A. (2006). Writing narrative literature reviews for peer-reviewed journals: secrets of the trade. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.86A0B01A
• Hastings, C., & Herbert, B. E. (2016). Effective Strategies in Writing and Research: Workshop Presentations. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.29A7997F
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