COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MEASUREMENT AND ASSESSMENT IN PSYCHIATRY (SCALES) II

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
SBI 6062 MEASUREMENT AND ASSESSMENT IN PSYCHIATRY (SCALES) II ELECTIVE 2 4 0 12

Offered By

Basic Neuroscience

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CEREN HIDIROĞLU ONGUN

Offered to

Basic Neuroscience

Course Objective

Getting advanced information about scales that are used for assessment of mood and their reliability and validity analysis and preparation for use.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Preparation of scale questions and items
2   Doing plot and area studies and their assessments
3   Doing reliability and validity analyses
4   Accessing scientific information and assessment
5   Having ability of oral and written presentation

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Preparation of scale questions: Literature and scale search, focus group interview, preparation of items and answer sheets, determination of question style, cognitive debriefing Scale proposal-application Planning,doing, resolving focus group interview (application) Preparation of answer sheet (appl) Determination of items (appl) Cognitive debriefing (appl)
2 Pilot study: general principles, selection of group, getting feedbacks Combination of professional and patient feedbacks Area study: determination of working group and other tools to be used, diagnostic systems and its properties Preparation of pilot study instructions (appl) Preparation of area study instructions (appl) Direction and of review area study (appl)
3 Reliability analyses: internal precision, item-point analyses Precision, item-total point analyses Reliability analyses: relation to time between interviewers, theory of item-answer, Rash analysis Validity analyses: first look and content, descriptive factor analysis, correction factor analysis, co-validity Reliability and Validity analyses (application)
4 Validity analyses: specificity and sensitivity Validity analyses: differential validity Validity analyses: overlapping validity Translation of psychometric analyses (application) Preparation of scales (application) Preparation of scale sheet (application) Application of scale (application) General discussion

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s): At the end of lectures, web addresses and handouts will be delivered.
Supplementary Book(s): Psikiyatride kullanılan Klinik Ölçekler (Prof. Dr. Ömer Aydemir, Prof. Dr. Ertuğrul Köroğlu)

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Oral presentation, literature search

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 PRF PERFORMANCE
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 +PRF * 0.30 + FIN* 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 +PRF * 0.30 +RST* 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

412 4190

Office Hours

Friday 16.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 30 1 30
Tutorials 60 1 60
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 30 5 150
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 1 16 16
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 300

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15PO.16PO.17
LO.1544
LO.2544
LO.35
LO.45
LO.55