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300177 UE Direct behavior observation, digitization and analysis (2015W)
Continuous assessment of course work
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If possible, please bring your own laptop. The Observer is a Windows-based program for which we will provide guidelines for installation and the student version of the program.
Registration/Deregistration
Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Mo 07.09.2015 08:00 to Th 24.09.2015 18:00
- Deregistration possible until Fr 30.10.2015 18:00
Details
max. 28 participants
Language: German
Lecturers
Classes
On Tuesdays 13:00-18:00 on the following dates:
Oct 6, Oct 13, Oct 20, Oct 27, Nov 3, Large seminar room at the Dept. of Anthropology
Attendance compulsory!
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
The course gives an introduction into the fundamentals of behavioral observation and its statistical analysis as an interactive training course. The topics include observation and categorization, time-structured data collection techniques, empirical and statistical behavior analysis. Using film material of sea gulls, chimpanzees and human children together with predefined sampling and recording schemes, the students will learn to record behavior systematically via paper-and-pencil as well as with The Observer®. The latter is professional software for collection, analysis, presentation and management of observational data. This way, an understanding of the basic sampling and recording rules will be built up.
Assessment and permitted materials
The following criteria have to be met in order to pass this course:
Regular attendance + oral (discussions, answering questions in class) + short written exams + practical final project (with a positive grade).
Regular attendance + oral (discussions, answering questions in class) + short written exams + practical final project (with a positive grade).
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
The aim is to teach the skills to choose among the basic sampling and recording rules as well as analyses the best fitting ones for a given research question and to design one’s own configuration for data collection and analyses using the Observer.
Examination topics
Short lectures, demonstrations, practical exercises, video training, and small individual tasks.
Reading list
Further reading material will be available as handouts and on the learning-platform Moodle.
Association in the course directory
MAN 2
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