Events and Activities in 2016-1017 academic year:
September 2016, Society Opening and Journal Paper Discussion
“Why Most Published Research Findings Are False” by John P.A. Ioannidis (2005)
October 2016, Journal Paper Discussion
“Understanding and Using Mediators and Moderators” by Amery D. Wu and Bruno D. Zumbo (2008)
November 2016, Research Presentations
Making Causal Inference: Studies Using Mediation Models or Randomized Controlled Trial Design
January 2017, Future of Hypothesis Testing, p values?
Time: 11am-12:30pm, January 26, 2017 (Thursday)
Location: Scarfe Library Block Room 278 (the block behind Education Library)
Moderator: Dr. Yan Liu (Assistant professor, MERM program, UBC)
Discussion Panel:
Dr. Mark Beauchamp (Professor, School of Kinesiology, UBC)
Dr. Ed Kroc (Postdoctoral Fellow, MERM program; Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Department of Statistics & Department of Botany, UBC)
Since Basic and Applied Social Psychology (BASP) journal banned p values and significance hypothesis testing from their published papers, there have been a lot of debates and discussions around the p-value. We will discuss the current practice and the future of hypothesis testing and specially p values. We will also have an opportunity to talk via Skype to, one of the editors of BASP, Dr. David Trafimow (Department of Psychology, New Mexico State University), about his 2015 editorial regarding the banning p values and about the influence of this policy on the submissions to this journal.
The editorial from BASP is attached here. Greenland and his colleagues’ paper “Statistical tests, p values, confidence intervals, and power: a guide to misinterpretations” is a good reference, which is attached here. Please join us for a fun and informative discussion. The PowerPoint from the talk can be found here.
February 2017, Navigating the choppy waters of hypothesis testing
Time: 11am-12pm, February 28, 2017 (Tuesday)
Location: Scarfe Library Block Room 278 (the block behind Education Library)
Moderator: Dr. Lee Gunderson (Professor, Language & Literacy Education, Faculty of Education)
Discussion Panel:
Dr. Ed Kroc (Postdoctoral Fellow, MERM program; Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Department of Statistics & Department of Botany)
Dr. Bruno Zumbo (Professor, MERM program, Faculty of Education)
A good reference paper “A manifesto for reproducible science” by Munafo al. et (2017) is attached here. The PowerPoint and the journal paper by Zumbo and Kroc (2016) are attached here.
March 2017, Research Presentations
Time: 11am-12pm, March 23, 2017 (Thursday)
Location: Scarfe Library Block Room 278 (the block behind Education Library)
Moderator: Michelle Chen (Ph.D. candidate, MERM)
Speakers:
Minjeong Park (M.A. student in MERM)
Oscar Olvera (Ph.D. in MERM)
Do the multiple choices of a test question mean the same to different people?
By Minjeong Park
Abstract: Multiple choice questions are widely used in both large scale and classroom assessments. However, educators rarely think about if students with the same ability or skills may have different probabilities to select the options, which may affect their academic performance. This study is to investigate this issue and will show you how Differential Options Functioning method provide useful information to researchers and educators.
Psychometric investigation of the Ages and Stages Questionnaire: Methodological challenges and potential solutions
By Oscar Olvera
Abstract: The Ages and Stages Questionnaire 3 (ASQ-3) is a widely-used screening tool to identify developmental delays in children aged from 2 to 66 months. In spite of this popularity, very little psychometric research has been done on it due to the intricacies of the data it generates. This study presents 3 methodological challenges prevalent in ASQ-3 data as well as solutions to address them.
Please sign up here before 5pm March15, 2017.
April 2017 (No event)