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PSY-40107 - Module Specification
School of Psychology
Faculty of Natural Sciences

For academic year: 2024/25 Last Updated: 29 June 2024

PSY-40107 - Enhancing Reproducibility in Research
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Level: Level 7
Credits: 15
Study Hours: 150
School Office: 01782 733736

Programme/Approved Electives for 2024/25

None

Available as a Free Standing Elective

No

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2024/25


Aims
This module will introduce students to various issues related to enhancing reproducibility in research. The module will be a combination of content-based material (outlining current issues around reproducibility, delivered via synchronous and asynchronous material) together with hands-on experience with tools to aid reproducibility (such as analysis in R and reproducible report-writing using markdown).

Intended Learning Outcomes

describe and explain a range of threats to reproducibility in research and a range of proposed solutions to these threats: 1
identify and evaluate the key issues relating to reproducibility relevant to the students' primary area of research: 1
conduct data processing and simple analyses / visualisations using an open-source statistical programming language: 1
use open-source software tools to produce a reproducible report of data analysis: 1

Study hours

- 24 hours of scheduled teaching (interactive, discussion-based etc.)
- 24 hours of guided asynchronous learning (roughly 1 hour per week for content preparation, and 1 hour per week on learning and practicing with R and R markdown)
- 102 hours preparing the Reproducible analysis report

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment

The University undertakes a continuous review of its teaching and research provision to ensure programmes are of a high quality and changes may be made to modules where it is necessary and reasonable to do so. Please be aware that minor changes to modules, such as a change to an individual assessment, can occur up until enrolment, although we endeavour to give you as much notice as possible of any changes. Details about the circumstance in which changes are made to programmes can be found in the Student Agreement, available at: https://www.keele.ac.uk/legalgovernancecompliance/governance/actcharterstatutesordinancesandregulations/studenttermsconditions/

Last Updated: 29 June 2024