Advanced statistics in movement sciences

3 ECTS credits
78 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 4018677ENR for all students in the 1st semester at a (E) Master - advanced level.

Semester

1st semester

Enrollment based on exam contract

Impossible

Grading method

Grading (scale from 0 to 20)

Can retake in second session

Yes

Enrollment Requirements

For this course you have to meet certain enrolment requirements. For an overview of the enrolment requirements check https://www.vub.be/en/studying-vub/practical-info-for-students/study-guidance/study-path/individual-study-path#paragraph--id--71647

Taught in

Dutch

Faculty

Faculty of Physical Education and Physiotherapy

Department

Bewegings- en Sportwetenschappen

Educational team

Eva D'Hondt (course titular)

Activities and contact hours

13 contact hours Lecture
26 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals

Course Content

This course follows up on ‘Introductional statistics in movement sciences’ (3 BALO) and aims to further develop students’ general research skills in preparation for the independent analysis, interpretation and reporting of collected data (a.o. in the context of the subsequent Master's thesis). Through a combination of lectures (HOCs) and immediately following practical exercises (WPOs), this course includes a further in depth study of more advanced quantitative statistical techniques with special attention for multifactorial and multivariate analysis methods (a.o., numerous extenstions to ANOVA, logistic regression, factor analysis, etc.). The students learn to independently execute both previously acquired techniques and these more complex statistical analyses on more extensive fictitious data sets using SPSS as statistical processing program, including a brief explanation of the use of syntax. All examples and practical exercises in this course are applied to the field of physical education, movement and sport sciences.

Course material

Digital course material (Required) : PowerPoint slides (complemented with own notes), Canvas
Practical course material (Required) : SPSS Software, Shared ICT Services Centre (SISC)
Handbook (Recommended) : Statistiek in de praktijk, Theorieboek, Moore D.S., McCabe G.P., 5de, Academic Service, 9789039523605, 2006
Handbook (Recommended) : Discovering statistics using IBM SPSS Statistics, Field A., 5de, Sage Publications Ltd, 9781526419521, 2017
Handbook (Recommended) : Inductieve statistiek voor de gedragswetenschappen, Toegepaste hypothesetoetsing met SPSS, Vanhoomissen T., Valkeneers G., Acco, 9789463791540, 2019

Additional info

Presence in the lectures (HOCs) and practical exercises (WPOs) is highly recommended in view of understanding and processing the subject matter, but not a requirement to be admitted to the exam.

Learning Outcomes

General learning outcomes

- The student is able to understand and critically analyze the methodology and more advanced statistics being used in a research report within the field of physical education, movement and sport sciences.

- The student has insight in the basic concepts of more advanced statistical analysis techniques

- The student can understand, explain and apply (the use of) more complex quantitative statistical methods and significance tests.

- The student is able to independently formulate research questions within the field of physical education, movement and sport sciences based on a more extensive and complex dataset.

- The student is able to select and execute the appropriate more advanced statistical technique / significance test using statistical software (SPSS, linked to ICT-literacy) for answering a complex research question within the field of physical education, movement and sport sciences.

- The student is able to interpret, evaluate and report the results of more advanced statistical analyses in order to answer complex research questions within the field of physical education, movement and sport sciences.

- Passing 'Advanced statistics in movement sciences' does not imply that the student has acquired the unique learning outcomes of 'Introductional statistics in movement sciences'.

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:

Toegepast Examen with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 100% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

The Applied Exam (HOCs & WPOs) concerns an exam where research questions are formulated on the basis of a more extensive and complex data file that need to be resolved using statistical SPSS software. Both the process and results of the statistical analyses as well as the associated interpretations need to be reported in writing.

There is no possibility of a further oral examination.

[ATTENTION:] Absence from this mandatory part of the evaluation leads to an ‘absent’ as a result code.

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