At the end of the course, participants will have acquired a number of practical skills that are essential in advising. Since the course is pointed at an individual style of consulting, each participant will be able to better handle his or her strengths and weaknesses. Throughout, the following book will be used:

(In the sequel we refer to it as ‘the ARM book’).

The present course is developed to meet requests of a broader audience from The Netherlands and abroad. The course is now only offered as an in-house course to semi-governmental and non-governmental institutions. Prices are dependent on the number of participants (The maximum number of participants for the five day course is 15).
For more information, please contact us per email at: Courses@jvank.nl or call Johannes van Kessel Courses: +31-35-5337923.
For a price table, click here.

Herman Adèr
has been a statistical consultant for many years, both at the department of Psychology and the department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics of the Free University, Amsterdam.
Don Mellenbergh
is emeritus professor of Psychological Methods at the Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam. He has a long-standing experience in methodological consultancy in different fields, such as clinical and health psychology, industrial and organizational psychology, educational research, social dentistry, and psychiatry. He (co)supervised more than ninety PhD theses.

From 2003 onwards, Herman and Don have given courses using (drafts of) the ARM book. The last five years they use to give a six week course in the Research Master’s curriculum of the Department of Psychological Methods at the University of Amsterdam.

Starting this year in october, a five-day course similar to one described here, will be given for PhD students of the Interuniversity Graduate School of Psychometrics and Sociometrics (IOPS). A limited number of places is still available for outside participants.

To make the most of this course,

(a) Participants should have sufficient mastering of the English language (TOEFL score 500–600).

(b) Participants should have working knowledge of statistics at the level of one of the following books: Altman (1991); Hays (1994) or Wilcox (2003);

(c) participants should have some feeling for and understanding of the way quantitative research methods can be applied to solve scientific problems. (Having personal experience with advising on research methods or statistics is an advantage.)

On each day, one part of the book is discussed. A course day typically consists in one daily period in which lectures are given and consultation role-plays take place and another daily period which is reserved for individual study and preparation of course member contributions. During the individual study period Herman Adèr is available to answer questions.

COURSE SCHEME

Day 1
 
09.00-09.30 Introduction and assignments
09.30-10.00 Presentation: Functional notation and Bootstrapping (HJA)
10.00-10.15 Tea and Coffee break
10.15-11.00 Video Demonstration of a consultation interview
11.00-12.00 Publishing
12.00-13.00 Question hour. Don and Herman are available for questioning

Day 2
 
13.00-13.45 Presentation on Sampling by one of the participants
13.45-14.00 Tea and Coffee break
14.00-14.45 Presentation on research design (GJM)
14.45-15.30 Discussion of the rest of part II
15.30-15.45 Tea and Coffee break
15.45-17.00 Consultation role-plays

Day 3
 
13.00-13.45 Presentation on Surveys by one of the participants
13.45-14.00 Tea and Coffee break
14.00-14.45 Presentation on Test and questionnaires (GJM)
14.45-16.00 Consultation role-plays
16.00-17.00 Question hour. Don and Herman are available for questioning

Day 4
 
13.00-13.45 Presentation Data analysis by one of the participants
13.45-14.00 Tea and Coffee break
14.00-14.45 Presentation on Modelling (HJA)
14.45-15.30 Discussion of the rest of part IV
15.30-15.45 Tea and Coffee break
16.45-17.00 Consultation role-plays

Day 5
 
13.00-13.45 Presentation on Regression analysis by one of the participants
13.45-14.00 Tea and Coffee break
14.00-14.45 Factor analysis and structural equation modelling (HJA)
14.45-15.30 Discussion of the rest of part V
15.30-15.45 Tea and Coffee break
16.45-17.00 Consultation role-plays
 
18.00-19.30 Dinner.

References