Course programme 2012
Designing experimental and field experimental research
Time and place: 20.3.-21.3.12, University of Turku (Faculty of Education)
Tuesday 20.3.2012 EDU2
Wednesday 21.3.2012 Pub 431 and Educarium Data Class 454
Organizers: Doctoral programme for multidisciplinary research on learning environments (OPMON) and the Doctoral programme for Psychology (DOPSY)
Description:
An important goal of educational and psychological research is to determine the causal effects of intervention programs, and practices on different types of outcomes. There are, however, multiple factors that should prevent researchers from making such causal inferences. It is problematic that these threats to validity go often unaddressed in both fields, leading potentially to false conclusions about effectiveness. While there is agreement that randomized experiments provide an invaluable tool for making causal inferences, it is often impossible or impractical to run them. Quasiexperimental designs represent an alternative approach. This course addresses validity and threats to validity in experimental and quasiexperimental research, in particular. The emphasis is on how threats to validity can be dealt with in research designs, for instance by as improving the random assignment process and by missing data analysis. Class sessions will focus on general discussion of the methods as well examples of how the methods have been used.
For whom:
Tuesday March 20, 2012: The lectures (on Tuesday) are open to everyone interested including faculty members.
Wednesday March 21, 2012: max 18 participants (mandatory for OPMON students)
Keynotes: Professor Manfred Prenzel
Teachers: Dr. Johanna Kaakinen and Antti Kärnä
Credits: 2 ETCS (participation to the lectures, completing required readings and course assingment before the course)
Registeration: closed
Instructions for required readings, course assingment and programme
Updated programme for Tuesday March 20
12:00-12:15 Introductory words
12:15-13:00 Dr. Johanna Kaakinen: Designing a true experiment: issues and practical challenges
13:00-13:45 Antti Kärnä: Designing field experiments: issues and practical challenges (Kiva antibullying program)
Keynote speech
14:00-16:00 Prof. Manfred Prenzel: Experimenting in an educational system - large scale designs (preliminary title)
Statistics Workshop
Credits: 1 ECTS
Time: 23.-24.5.2012, 10:00 -16:00
Place: University of Turku, Publicum, Pub 5
Language: English
Lecturer: Professor Todd Little, University of California at Riverside
Responsible Teacher: Senior researcher Timo Ruusuvirta
Organizer: Doctoral programme for Psychology (DOPSY)
Enrolment by 11.5.2012 to Tarja-Riitta Hurme (firstname.lastname@utu.fi)
Building and Testing Structural Equation Models In the Social Sciences
Credits: 2 ECTS
Time: 11.-13.6.2012 from 9 to noon and from 1 pm to 4 pm
Place: Helsinki, Fabianinkatu 24, 1 krs, collegium
Language: English
Responsible Teacher: Professor Katariina Salmela-Aro
Lecturer: Professor Amiram Vinokur, Institute for Social Reserach, University of Michigan
Organizer: Doctoral programme for Psychology (DOPSY)
Enrolment by 21.5.2012 to Tarja-Riitta Hurme (firstname.lastname@utu.fi)
OST'12: Open and Social Technologies for Networked Learning -conference
Time: 30.7.-3.8.2012
Place: Tallinn University, Estonia
Language: English
Enrolment: Please notice the deadline for conference submission, 27 February 2012
Applying multilevel analysis to experimental and field experimental studies
Credits: 1 ECTS
Time: September 27-28, 2012
Place: University of Turku, Publicum, seminar room 209
Language: English
Responsible Teacher: Timo Ruusuvirta
Lecturers: Rinus Voeten (University of Groeningen), Antti Kärnä (University of Turku)
Enrolment: via Dopsy registeration by September 6th
NB! Recommended reading: Hox, J.J.(2010). Multilevel analysis: Techniques and applications. 2nd Edition. New York: Routledge.
MLearn Conference
Time: October 16-18, 2012
Place: Helsinki Congress Paasitorni, Paasivuorenkatu 5A, Helsinki
ICO Fall School
Time: November 5 -10, 2012
Place: Girona, Spain
Enrolment: Please register no later than 30.4.2012 to Tarja-Riitta Hurme (firstname.lastname@utu.fi)