Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• Understand the theoretical and methodological fundamentals in psychology and educational sciences to analyse a situation involving these disciplines
• Describe the principles of methodological approaches (objectives, methods, techniques and tools) to understand and explain the functioning of individuals, groups and organisations
• Understand the fundamentals of intervention
• Identify the type of intervention, with reference to a theoretical framework, including the choice of appropriate tools to be implemented based on the analysis of a well-defined situation
• Provide clear, accurate, and reasoned information
• Summarise the contributions of different sources to justify an opinion or decision
• Write bibliographic references and results of statistical analysis in a standardised way (according to APA standards)
• Structure data gathered during the analysis of an intervention request
• Provide information (both orally and in writing) regarding the fields of psychology and educational sciences in an intelligible manner, with a good command of the language communication techniques.
• Collaborate, work in a team
• Interact effectively with other students to carry out collaborative projects.
• Demonstrate active listening and empathy in the context of an interpersonal situation
• Identify and appropriately implement the different ways of working in a group
• 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 different steps to carry out research
• Identify and explain the main methods (including limitations) specific to the scientific process
• Give a critique and argue a point of view as part of a scientific approach

Learning Outcomes of UE

The student will be able to manipulate the basic concepts of the field of the measure / evaluation / testing :  (1) to be capable of judging methodological choices, of identifying instruments / procedures of value, of adopting an attitude of constructive criticism, of approaching the courses connected to this one.
(2) to be capable of building a measuring instrument presenting all the quality criteria inherent to this type of tool.

UE Content: description and pedagogical relevance

 Brief history of the measure of the human mind / Basic principle of the measure of the human mind/Notion of variability of the behaviors / scales of measure: nominal scales, ordinales scales, scales of interval and scales of ratio / Notion of "test": Criteria of qualification of a test: technical, methodological criteria and epistemological / The theory of the True Scores / Test Reliability and Validity / Items analysis : Difficulty, Discriminativity, Reliability, validity / Introduction to Strong True-score Theories and to Latent-Trait Models.

Prior Experience

Basis in statistics