Certificate Course on Applied Psychometrics (l1)

2- MONTH ONLINE CERTIFICATE COURSE ON APPLIED PSYCHOMETRICS (L1)

About the Trust: Rabindrik Psychotherapy Research Institute Trust is non-profit oriented Academic trust aiming at dissemination of research based course curriculum for the welfare of nation. The trust offers educational course on Applied statistics, R-script, Psychological data collection and psychometrics through sort term courses. 

Course Background:   As defined by the US National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), psychometrics refers to psychological measurement. Generally, it refers to the specialist fields within psychology and education devoted to testing, measurement, assessment, and related activities. Psychometricians usually possess a specific qualification, and most are psychologists with advanced graduate training in test interpretation, psychometrics, and measurement theory. In addition to traditional academic institutions, many psychometricians work for the government or in human resources departments. In social science research, this is important for assessing attitude, abilities, aptitudes, knowledge, Personality, temperament, motivation etc.  Psychometric skills are essential for psychological test construction, assessing reliability, validity and test standardization. Completion of the course will help to join research internship of the trust. Trust provides research internship on literature review and questionnaire construction. Psychometric tests are important for Psychological counselling, selection, training and placement. This course will focus on Psychometrics only. Successful candidates will be offered knowledge about descriptions of different Psychological test at the next level. 

Scope: This two-month online course offers comprehensive knowledge about Psychometric theories and applications at the basic level. It includes practicum of different disciplines of Psychology that helps in understanding both theory and applications.After completion of the couse, students will understand advanced psychometric methods. 

Admission procedure: Applicant first pay the non-refundable amount and register using registration link. 

Link for registration:  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScTBWRESTMSrWuc_ep6j8AHqvuCtZz_6lwsnyE89ZnDK43okg/viewform

Course design: Course provides both theoretical knowledge and application using 5 practicums related to item anlaysis, test-retest reliability, validity, norm estimation etc.

Eligibility: PG qualified  or currently pursuing PG in Social sciences (Psychology, Education, Sociology, Human resource Management, Finance). Basic knowledge about statistics  is important but not mandatory.

Seats: 10

Period:2 month (November and December, November is for learning theories and December is for practicum).

Class hours: The course will follow blended learning in which both offline and online training will be provided. Each online class will be one hour - Monday and Friday from 8 to 9 PM. Online classes will be held in zoom or Google meet. Google classroom will be used for note sharing and evaluation. 

Syllabus: 

Paper 1: Introduction to Psychometrics and applications - Historical foundations, Measurement scales, Key words, Characteristics of Good Psychological test, Applications in different disciplines. 

Practicum 1: Describing Reading motivation questionnaire and case interpretation. 

Paper 2: Construct, concept, theory and Items - Direct and Indirect observation. Item difficulty, item discrimination, item validity, item characteristics curve.  

Practicum2: Item statistics of environmental attitude questionnaire and case interpretation. 

Practicum3: Assessing test-retest reliability of Rabindrik value questionnaire.

Paper 3: Reliability techniques and assessment - Theories, Test-retest, Alternative, Internal consistency, factors affecting reliability.

Practicum3: Assessing test-retest reliability of Rabindrik value questionnaire.

Paper 4: Validity techniques and assessment :Content, Predictive, Construct and Differential validity. 

Practicum4: Assessing differential validity of Psychological test.

Paper 5: Test standardization - Subjectivity-Objectivity, Norm. 

Practicum5: Classification of cases by norm estimation.

Each paper carries 16 marks. Total marks is (5 papers X  16 marks )=80.  First month will be theory and next month will be practicum. 

Practicum includes assignment and viva-voce.  It carries 20 marks. Assignments are case analysis with given questionnaire on five topics in education, organizational behavior, health, forensic and environmental issues. So total marks will be 100.

Registration: Rs. 2800 for payment before  25th October. Rs.3000 for payment after 25th October. Payment is Non-refundable. Amount will be used for infrastructure development of the trust. 

Account number:  920020072908427, UTIB0000236, in favor of Rabindrik Psychotherapy Research Institute Trust. Please write payee name or you can pay by QR code. Click here

Certificate: Course completion certificate will be given with mark sheet by the Rabindrik Psychotherapy Research Institute trust.

Resource persons: Internal and external faculties of the Institute.

Contact Academic assistants: 

• Aayushi Soral, 7688812527
• Rupali Rawat, +91 98119 20838