Objectives of general skills

• Understand the theoretical and methodological fundamentals in psychology and educational sciences to analyse a situation involving these disciplines
• Identify and explain the concepts, principles and models of fundamental theoretical trends in psychology and educational sciences and their applications
• Identify and describe the specific characteristics of psychology and educational sciences and their relationship to other contributory disciplines
• Describe the principles of methodological approaches (objectives, methods, techniques and tools) to understand and explain the functioning of individuals, groups and organisations
• Collaborate, work in a team
• Interact effectively with other students to carry out collaborative projects.
• Act ethically and professionally
• Name, and be familiar with, legal frameworks and ethical principles that govern research and practice in psychology and educational sciences, and implement them in studies in a reflexive manner (exams, work, etc.)
• Grow personally and professionally
• Develop their scientific curiosity and open-mindedness
• Understand the various means available for documentation, to promote self-learning and lifelong learning
• Understand the fundamentals related to the scientific approach in psychology or educational sciences
• Identify and describe the specific characteristics of scientific processes
• Identify and describe the different steps to carry out research
• Identify and explain the main methods (including limitations) specific to the scientific process
• Conduct relevant research from scientific literature, from both Francophone and Anglophone references, and select appropriate elements with respect to a particular research topic.
• Give a critique and argue a point of view as part of a scientific approach

UE's Learning outcomes

The course aims at giving to the student the opportunity to be integrated into the process of experiments. He/she is him/herself an actor of experiments as subject, as experimenter or still as observer. The intention is to give to the student, by this integration in real experimental devices, a better appropriation of the concepts and the methods presented in the course. In the longer term, the course aims at giving to the student the methodological rudiments of the scientific method which, in fine, will be to be implement in his final report of the end of studies.

UE Content

The origins of the notion of experiment in human sciences
The scientific information: distribution, location and collection
The phases of the experiment
The determination of the hypotheses 
The selection of the subjects: elementary notions of sampling
Variables
The validity of an experiment and biases
The classic and factorial experimental devices

Prior experience

Not applicable

Term 1 for Integrated Assessment - type

• N/A

Term 2 for Integrated Assessment - type

• Written examination
• Practical test

Term 3 for Integrated Assessment - type

• Written examination
• Practical Test

Resit Assessment for IT - Term 1 (B1BA1) - type

• N/A