Two quizzes due by 5pm Monday at the start of weeks 4 and 10 will each open one week before they are closed and each account for 5% of the unit assessment. If a quiz cannot be undertaken for reasons that qualify under the special consideration rules, the value of the remaining quiz will be inflated proportionately to total 10%. No extensions will be granted beyond midnight of the Thursday prior to that week’s lecture, as we will be going through the answers to each quiz in the following lecture. Each quiz must be completed individually by each student. These tasks will assist with Learning Outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.

This will be a 2-stage exam, with a team-work component. The exam will be a mixture of multiple choice and “fill in the blank” short answer questions. The procedure is such that you will first sit the exam individually, and then immediately afterwards in the same time slot you will do the exam again in groups of four. The exams will then be graded such that 90% of the score comes from the individual attempt, and 10% from the group attempt, unless the individual attempt is better than the group attempt, in which case the student will get 100% of their score from the individual attempt.

I will be allocating all students to groups. I will post the group allocations to iLearn in the week of the exam. All allocations will be completely random and based on a random number generator.

If a student misses the exam due to illness or other unavoidable circumstances they can sit a supplementary exam which will contain only an individual component, with no group component (following University guidelines that the supplementary exam does not need to be the same format as the original exam). If a student has special circumstances such as the need for an individual testing room, or a longer testing time, they will sit the individual exam at the same time as the rest of the group, but in their own room. They may start the exam earlier to enable them to finish the individual component with enough time to make their way to the group exam room to complete the group component of the assessment.

This task will assist with Learning Outcomes 1, 2, 3 and 4.

This is a 2 hour closed book examination. The final examination may be based on any of the material covered in the unit. This will be held during the examination period, exact date will be advised closer to the time. This task will assist with Learning Outcomes 1, 2, 3 and 4.

This is a written report of 1000 words to be formatted like the aims/method/analysis section of a grant proposal. Students are required to outline briefly the background and aims / hypotheses of a proposed study, and the method to be employed. All constructs to be measured should be clearly operationalised. Students should then describe a plan of analysis including: 1) the statistical tests to be used and 2) the variables (independent, dependent, covariate, observed, latent etc., as appropriate) to be entered into the analyses. The project can either be one you are planning to carry out in the second year of your MRes, or can be another of your choosing, but should be feasible and based on real literature. The statistical tests used can be either techniques taught in PSYC718 or techniques learnt elsewhere, whichever is most appropriate to your design. No actual analysis is required. The report is due at 5p.m. Friday 29^th May through the turnitin portal on iLearn. You will receive feedback on Friday 12^th June. This task will assist with Learning Outcomes 3 and 4.

Penalties will be levied for late submission of the assignment: Late submission of the research proposal will attract a penalty of 5% of the maximum mark for every day late. In other words, the assignment is worth 20%, so a penalty of 5% x 20 = 1 will be applied. 1 mark is subtracted from whatever the student received for the report for each day late.

Requests for extensions for assignments are granted by the Student Centre.

Writing over the allocated word limit similarly attracts a penalty of 5% of the maximum mark, which will be deducted for every 100 words over the stated word limit. Therefore, for Research Proposal (worth 20% of the overall assessment) if the assignment is 100 words over the limit in total (i.e. 1100 words) then 5% x 20 = 1 mark will be subtracted from whatever the student received for the assignment.