ID:
27007
Duration (hours):
64
CFU:
8
SSD:
PSICOMETRIA
Located in:
CHIETI
Url:
PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES/CORSO GENERICO Year: 1
Year:
2025
Course Catalogue:
Overview
Date/time interval
Secondo Semestre (09/02/2026 - 30/05/2026)
Syllabus
Course Objectives
The program provides the students with an introduction to the themes related to the measurement in psychology and basic concepts to deal with problems of quantification and quantitative data processing. Regarding the learning expectations, the student is required to demonstrate acquisition of the following objectives:
1. Knowledge of the theoretical foundations of psychometrics;
2. Understanding of the psychometric concepts associated with scientific research;
3. Skills in the application of fundamental elements of statistical analysis of psychological data, as well as the use in the field of prevention;
4. The capacity to deal in a critical way with problems related to psychometrics and to communicate efficiently one’s own reflections on it.
Course Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites.
Teaching Methods
Classes in the lecture hall; exercises; simulations.
The classes are organized in 64 hours of frontal teaching, subdivided in 2 classes of 3 hours a week, based on the academic schedule.
During the classes, the professor will teach the themes both at the theoretical and at the practical level with exercises that foresee a strong interactive component between teacher and students.
Moreover, the course will make use of CONNECT, an online platform for individual exercising at theoretical and practical levels. The personal access code of the platform will be provided to the students together with the text book (Elementi di Psicometria, McGraw-Hill Education).
The E-Learning platform offered by UdA (https://elearning.unich.it ) will be regularly used to stimulate interactive teaching, to share teaching materials, and to support the exercises.
Assessment Methods
Type of exam:
written exam
The modality of the examination:
The exam consists of two tests.
The partial written test (around mid-May) consists of exercises (10 questions for a maximum of 10 points) to be completed with the aid of the form and the calculator (under no circumstances is the use of electronic devices permitted). Participation in the partial midterm is optional and not tied to attendance. Those who do not participate in the partial must recover the part of the exercises together with the theory in the official exam session.
It then concludes with a second multiple-choice written exam during the official exam session with 20 theoretical questions (max. 20 points). Each question has four alternative answers, only one of which is the correct one. The correct answer results in the attribution of one point, the incorrect answer (or more answers given or no answer given) results in the attribution of zero points. There is no oral exam.
The topics of the exam reflect those discussed during the classes and present in the course program.
The final vote (max. 30) will consist of the sum of the points attributed to the 20 multiple choice questions (20 points) and to those assigned to the 5 steps of the 2 exercises (10 points).
Evaluation:
final vote
Texts
Balsamo, M. (2017). Elementi di Psicometria, McGraw-Hill Education. – The book is sold in combination with an access code to Connect, an online platform for exercises.
Chapters 12 e 13 are excluded from this course, but will be treated during the EPG of Psychometrics II.
Contents
The specific topics of the course are the following:
1. Measurement in psychology: reliability and validity, the classic model of reliability (educational objectives 1 and 2);
2. Variables (educational objectives 2 and 3)
3. Scales of measurement;
4. Frequencies and their distributions (educational objectives 2 and 3);
5. Tables and graphs (educational objectives 2 and 3);
6. Measures of central tendency: mean, mode and median (educational objectives 2 and 3);
7. Measures of dispersion: standard deviation and variance (educational objectives 2 and 3);
8. Measures of position: quartiles, deciles and percentiles (educational objectives 2 and 3);
9. Standardization (educational objectives 2 and 3);
10. Relationships between variables: measures of correlation and simple regression (educational objectives 2 and 3).
Teaching concerns the theoretical understanding (educational objective 1 and 2), the practical ability to apply the acquired knowledge in executing exercises (educational objectives 2 and 3), and the interactive discussion of the exercises in the classes (educational objective 4).
Course Language
Italian
More information
E-mail of the teacher: s.ebisch@unich.it
In addition to the consulting hours (Tuesday, 9:00-11:00), the teacher is available to answer to questions during the lessons. The students are encouraged to consult regularly the e-learning platform of the course where the teacher will post communications concerning the course content as well as eventual preparations for the lessons.
Web page teacher: https://www.dnisc.unich.it/home-ebisch-sjoerd-johannes-hendrikus-4237
Degrees
Degrees
PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Bachelor’s Degree
3 years
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