Empirical Practicum (=Empra; Modules 5-6, Blocks 5-7; Summer Term 2022)
Professors: Sabine Koch & Liesbet Manders
Week
Session
Readings
M05: Research Design and Statistics (Block 5)
04.04.2022
Introduction; Topic Selection
Read Weeler / Murphey: Introduction to
Formation of Project Groups
Music Therapy Research (Electronic source)
Woche 2
Designs (Koch) &
Methods slides (Stats 1: Manders)
Statistics I (Manders)
Woche 3
Experimental Designs
Chapter 6 of Weeler Stats 2 (Manders)
Woche 4
Materials + Instruments
Observation slides
Stats 3 (Manders)
Woche 5
Protocol + Informed Consent
Revision of Literatur Stats 4 (Manders)
M05: Data Collection (Block 6)
Woche 1
Data Collection
Woche 2
Data Collection
Woche 3
Data Collection
Woche 4
Data Collection
Woche 5
Data Collection + 1UE Data Entry
M06: Data Analysis & Interpretation (Block 7)
Please bring your own Laptop (1 per group)
Woche 1
Data Entry and Organization
Woche 2
Data Analysis I
1 Laptop per group; support Manders
Woche 3
Data Analysis II
1 Laptop per group; support Manders
Woche 4
Short Presentations
9 Slides (see folder „session 4“)
Woche 4-5
Workshop Scientific Writing
Materials in Folder “Scientific Writing”
(Prep. for Seminar Paper)
*Dates are approximate; some groups work faster, some slower, also some research questions may
require more work in one or the other phase; plan flexible
Recommended Book: Creswell & Creswell (2018). Research Design. Thousand Oaks: Sage.
Possible Topics/Themes:
1. Self-chosen experimental/empirical topics, you can define for yourself
(Examples: with/without mood-congruent music; with/without shoes; with/without mask;
online vs life; with/without physical handicap, in the morning/evening...effects on well-being;
self-efficacy; sleep quality, etc.); Context dependency: space, floor, light
2. Rinat Feniger-Schaal: Mirroring & Attachment; Tal Shafir: Personality in Motion; Idea: Irony in
Motion
3. Comparative study: cultural comparisons, gender, age, etc.... Independent/interdependent c.
4. Secondary analysis: Therapeutic factors analyses (mediation analysis) (Examples: movement
with/without bouncing, tension, music, partner, ...)
5. Patients in clinic not feasible (ethics statement/IRB procedures take much paperwork –more
than the Seminar Paper- and long times; no guarantee; physicians tired of persons coming
from outside who want to test their patients);  maybe possible: Evaluation of Tango for
Parkinson Group; observational measures in refugee camp (PHV; to be asked).