Applied and Research

Three courses on testing, research and digital mental health. Suits UG Year 3 onwards and PG.

Three ELEVATE Foundations courses on the applied and research side of psychology. You learn the basics of psychological testing, how to plan research and analyse data, and how digital tools are used in mental health. Best suited to UG students from Year 3 onwards and PG students. Take the courses in the order listed.

Courses included

1
ELEVATE Foundations: Psychological Testing in Practice: Administering, Scoring and Report Writing
Best for: Best for: UG Year 2 and 3, after the psychological testing or psychometrics paper, and PG Year 1. For psychology students preparing for internships and placements in schools, colleges, clinics, NGOs and assessment centres, where they will help with testing under supervision. It assumes you have met reliability, validity and the normal curve in class; Module 4 refreshes the arithmetic.
2
ELEVATE Foundations: Research and Data Analysis for Psychology Dissertations (jamovi and JASP)
Best for: Best for: UG Year 3 and 4 (honours with research) and PG Year 2, the semester before the dissertation starts. For psychology students in India who will collect and analyse their own data for a dissertation or research project and want a clear, step-by-step route through the analysis in free software. No prior experience of jamovi or JASP is needed; a first statistics course (mean, standard deviation, what a p value is) helps.
3
ELEVATE Foundations: Digital Mental Health: Tele-counselling, Ethics and Data Privacy
Best for: Best for: UG Year 3 and 4 and PG Year 1 and 2, ahead of helpline or platform internships. For psychology students heading into online counselling platforms, helplines or mental health startups as interns or volunteers, working under supervision. No prior tele-counselling experience needed.