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Home   >  Master's & postgraduate courses  >  Education  >  Summer Course in Psychometric Validation Methods for Clinical Research
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    €300 discount for FME-UPC students

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    €250 discount for students from other UPC or UB schools, adjunct faculty from UPC or UB, and full-time faculty from UB not affiliated with the MESIO program

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    €200 discount for students from other universities

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    Free for full-time faculty at the UPC and MESIO UB or involved departments

Presentation

Edition
1st
Hours
15
Delivery method
Face-to-face or live online
You can take this programme in one of the two delivery methods.
These courses will be conducted 'face-to-face' and will also be streamed live.
Language of instruction
English
Fee
€400
Notes payment of enrolment fee and 0,7% campaign
Registration open until the beginning of the programme or until end of vacancies.
Start date
Start date: 30/06/2025
End date: 04/07/2025
Timetable
Monday: 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Tuesday: 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Wednesday: 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Thursday: 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Friday: 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Taught at
Facultat de Matemàtiques i Estadística (FME)
C/ Pau Gargallo, 14. Edifici U.
Barcelona
Why this programme?

This course is part of the XVIII Summer School of the Master's degree in Statistics and Operations Research (MESIO UPC-UB).

Psychometrics is a key field in clinical research, as it provides the statistical methods necessary to develop and validate measurement tools used in clinical trials, such as questionnaires or clinical outcome assessments (COAs). These instruments, essential for assessing patients' health status, depend on the quality of the data they generate. Psychometric validation, which includes the evaluation of reliability, construct validity, and sensitivity to change, plays a crucial role in ensuring the quality of the obtained results.

This course in Psychometric Validation Methods for Clinical Research provides comprehensive training in the techniques and principles necessary to conduct proper psychometric validation within the context of clinical research, with particular attention to regulatory standards.

Throughout the course, participants will explore both the theory of measurement and the analytical strategies used to assess the metric properties of COAs. Additionally, a detailed overview will be offered on the application of these methods in clinical research, allowing attendees to acquire the necessary skills to design, evaluate, and correctly interpret measurement instruments in this industry.

Primarily intended for students of the MESIO master’s program. The seminars can be recognized with 3 ECTS if 2 courses are completed and passed, and with 5 ECTS if 3 courses are completed and passed, subject to approval by the Faculty of Mathematics.

Aims
  • Understand the fundamental measurement principles required for psychometric validation.
  • Gain practical experience in evaluating measurement instruments within clinical research contexts.
  • Become familiar with the role of COAs (Clinical Outcome Assessments) in health evaluation.
Who is it for?
  • MESIO UPC-UB students.
  • PhD students in Statistics or Data Science.
  • Professionals interested in learning how to run regression models on functional data
Recommended: basic knowledge of statistical principles and R software/programming.

Software Requirements
Students must bring their own laptops with R, RStudio installed.

Training Content

The role of clinical outcome assessments and fundamentals of measurement theory
  • Healthcare evaluation and the regulatory landscape
  • Clinical outcome assessments (COAs) as a key tool in evaluating healthcare efficacy
  • COA development and ensuring alignment with the conceptual model of a measured construct
  • Introduction to classical test theory and modern latent variables theory
  • Concepts of measurement precision (reliability)
    The multi-faceted nature of validity
    Reliability and validity analyses

Reliability

  • Internal consistency
  • Test-retest reliability
  • Inter-rater reliability
  • Validity
  • Convergent/divergent validity
  • Known-groups validity

Structural validity and instrument scoring
  • Exploratory factor analysis
  • Confirmatory factor analysis
  • Measurement invariance

Item-response theory and Rasch models
  • Modern test theory & associated measurement models
  • The role of IRT in test development, refinement, and scoring
  • Differential item functioning

Score interpretability
  • Concepts of meaningfulness in COA interpretation
  • Estimating meaningful within-patient change
  • Estimating meaningful between-group difference
Degree
Certificate issued by the Fundació Politècnica de Catalunya.

Learning methodology

The teaching methodology of the programme facilitates the student's learning and the achievement of the necessary competences.

This course will combine seminars and hands-on workshop activities focusing on key aspects of analysis implementation and output interpretation.


Assessment criteria
Attendance
At least 80% attendance of teaching hours is required.
Solving exercises, questionnaires or exams
Individual tests aimed at assessing the degree of learning and the acquisition of competences.
Virtual campus
The students on this summer course will have access to the My_ Tech_Space virtual campus - an effective platform for work and communication between the programme's students, lecturers, directors and coordinators. My_Tech_Space provides the documentation for each training session before it starts, and enables students to work as a team, consult lecturers, check notes, etc.

Teaching team

Academic management
  • Langohr, Klaus
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    PhD in Statistics from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). Graduate in Statistical Sciences and Techniques from the University of Dortmund (Germany). Associate professor at the Department of Statistics and Operations Research of the UPC.
Teaching staff
  • O'Neill, Dara
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    PhD in Psychometrics (University of Surrey [Sur], UK).
    Graduate Certificate in Learning & Teaching (Sur).
    MA in Forensic Psychology (University College Cork [UCC], Ireland).
    BA in Applied Psychology (UCC).
    Dara is an Associate Director in Statistics and Psychometrics in the Patient Centered Solutions' team at IQVIA. Dara has over 15 years' experience in the application and teaching of psychometric and statistical methods. Dara's cross-disciplinary academic and professional research work has involved a particular focus on patient outcomes, treatment evaluation and population health.

  • Sjöström-Bujacz, Aleksandra
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    PhD in psychology with a focus on work and organizational psychology at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Germany. Master's degree in psychology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland. Senior Consultant at IQVIA's Statistics & Psychometric team, part of Patient Centered Solutions. Affiliated researcher at the Health Informatics Centre at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. With over 10 years of experience in scale development and psychometric validation of behavioral measurements.

Career opportunities

Students seeking to develop expertise in analytic methods for ensuring accurate and valid insight in clinical outcome assessments for healthcare evaluation, and those seeking to learn about psychometric measurement theories and methods more generally.

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    • If the notification takes place up to one month after the start of the programme, it will refund the amount actually paid, less 300 Euros as administrative expenses.
    • No refunds will be made after a month after the start of the programme. It will be only be possible to use the amount paid as a deposit for the registration fee of the next programme. This procedure entails no administrative fee for the student. The price difference between the new registration fee and the amount previously paid will be payable by the student under all circumstances.

Changes in registration. Any changes in registration, previously authorised by the Fundació Politècnica de Catalunya, will incur a 300 € administration fee.

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Barcelona, October 31, 2017


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