Undergraduate Series

Level 1: Grassroots

Our first-year undergraduate course covers current state of psychological science and what Open Science is as well as its importance. It also aims to make students confident and competent at using RStudio as a tool to achieve good data management skills.

Authors: Emily Nordmann, Heather Woods
Contact: Emily Nordmann
Contributors: Jack Taylor, Shannon McNee

Level 2: Practical

Our second-year undergraduate course covers data skills such as R Markdown, data wrangling with tidyverse, and data visualisation with ggplot2. It also introduces statistical concepts such as permutation tests, NHST, alpha, power, effect size, and sample size. Semester 2 focusses on correlations and the general linear model.

Authors: Phil McAleer, Carolina Kuepper-Tetzel, Helena Paterson
Contact: Carolina Kuepper-Tetzel

Level 3: Statistical Models

This third-year undergraduate course teaches students how to specify, estimate, and interpret statistical models corresponding to various study designs, using a General Linear Models approach.

Author: Dale Barr

Postgraduate Books

MSc Conversion

This book contains materials for students on the MSc Conversion in Psychological Studies/Science, a one-year postgraduate degree for students with a non-psychology undergraduate degree. This research methods course covers core data skills that allow you to manipulate and analyse quantitative data.

Author: Emily Nordmann

Data Skills for Reproducible Research

This book provides an overview of skills needed for reproducible research and open science using the statistical programming language R and tidyverse packages. It covers data visualisation, data tidying and wrangling, archiving, iteration and functions, probability and data simulations, general linear models, and reproducible workflows. It assumes at least an undergraduate level of methods training, but no prior experience in R.

Authors: Lisa DeBruine, Dale Barr
Contact: Lisa DeBruine
Contributors: Rebecca Lai

Other Books

Glossary of Terms

PsyTeachR books (and external websites) can link to the glossary to define common terms. Anyone can contribute to the glossary through the github project.

Contact: Lisa DeBruine

PsyTeachR Book Template

Materials for educators looking to create their own version of PsyTeachR materials.

Contact: Lisa DeBruine