A two day Faculty Development Programme On Manuscript Peer Review Process  2022 was held online by the Psychology Research Unit on 19-20 January. 12 Faculties and PhD scholars joined and 5 distinguished Professors gave lecture through online system. Prof. Santoshi Halder gave lecture on 'Manuscript Style, Structure and Content'. Dr. Mrinal Mukherjee delivered a lecture on 'Reviewing the Manuscript'. Prof. Damodar Suar gave a lecture on 'Plagiarism and Ethics'. Dr. Debdulal Dutta Roy gave a lecture on 'Multivariate Statistics in Psychological Research'. Prof. Shah Alam delivered a lecture on 'Organization of Manuscript According to APA Format'. Dr. Sushmita Mukhopadhyay delivered a lecture on 'Ethical Committee Formation and Implementation'. The participants were trained through different research materials from the Google Classroom. Three dissertations were used for understanding how to review the manuscript. Ms. Irene Chattopadhyay, Project-linked person, performed as anchor and Dr. Debdulal Dutta Roy, Head & Associate Professor, coordinated the program. The program was successfully concluded with a vote of thanks.

 

 

Psychology Research Unit,

Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

announces

A National Level Workshop on

FACULTY DEVELOPMENT FOR MANUSCRIPT PEER REVIEW PROCESS

 

 

PROGRAMME SCHEDULE

DAY 1 - 19.01.2022
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM	Inauguration
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM	Technical Session 1 Manuscript Structure, Style and Content.	Prof. Santoshi Halder Professor, Dept of Education, University of Calcutta.
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM	Technical Session 2 Reviewing the manuscript.	Dr. Mrinal Mukherjee Assistant Professor, Dept of Teacher Education, WBUTTEPA.
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Lunch break
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Technical Session 3 Plagiarism and Ethics.	Prof. Damodar Suar Chairperson, Social Science Research, KIIT, Bhubaneshwar.
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Tea Break
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Technical Session 4 Multivariate Statistics in Psychological Research.	Dr. Debdulal Dutta Roy Associate Professor, Psychology Research Unit, ISI, Kolkata.
DAY 2 - 20.01.2022
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM	Technical Session 5 Organization of manuscript according to APA format.	Prof. Shah Alam Professor, Dept of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University.
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM	Technical Session 6 Ethical committee formation and implementation.	Dr. Sushmita Mukhopadhyay Associate Professor, VGSOM, IIT, Kharagpur.
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Lunch break
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM	Manuscript Review
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM	High Tea
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM	Valedictory & Certificate Distribution.

 

NAME OF THE SELECTED PARTICIPANTS

Full Name	What designation do you currently hold?	Affiliated Institute	Email Address
Prof(Dr) Roopali Sharma	Professor	Amity Institute of Psychology and Allied Sciences, Amity University, Noida, UP	roopalisharma56@yahoo.com
Dr Ankit Prakash	Assistant Professor	University of Delhi	ankitprakash@aryabhattacollege.ac.in
Naila Firdous	Research Scholar	Aligarh Muslim University	firdousnaila03@gmail.com
Umesh Shinde	Assistant Professor	K J Somaiya College of Arts & Commerce	ur.shinde0105@gmail.com
MRS. MONALISA PATTANAYAK	Research Scholar	KL UNIVERSITY (DEEMED TO BE UNIVERSITY), VIJAYAWADA, GUNTUR DISTRICT, ANDHRA PRADESH, INDIA, PIN-522502.	monalisapattanayak36@gmail.com
Manaswini Mishra	Research Scholar	National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar, Odisha	manaswini.mishra@niser.ac.in
Abhishek Kumar	Research Scholar	Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay	abhishek_psy@iitb.ac.in
Atika Srivastava	Research Scholar	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur	srivastavatika.02@gmail.com
Dr. Jerina Begum	Associate Professor	University of Science and Technology, Meghalaya	jerinaguw@gmail.com
Ankit Mishra	Research Scholar	IIT Bombay	ankitmishrajnp@gmail.com
Afreen Waseem	Research Scholar	Aligarh Muslim University	afreenwaseem800@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

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Eligibility : PG qualified, Research scholars, Assistant Professors, Associate Professors (preferebly having a Psychology and allied Science background)

Interested candidates may apply on or before 15th January, 2022, through email (psy@isical.ac.in)

ON LINE REGISTRATION CLICK HERE

 

Background:  The strength and vitality of publications in our profession and psychological science disciplines are centered on the premise of a high-quality manuscript peer review process. Peer review is the essential element in promoting quality and excellence in the papers published in our scientific, educational, and professional journals. Peer review provides authors with the opportunity to improve the quality and clarity of their manuscripts. It also guides the journal's editorial staff in making publication decisions and identifying substandard manuscripts that should not be published. Individuals who participate in the peer review process provide a valuable service to their colleagues and the journal's editorial staff members by improving the literature in their discipline. Serving as a manuscript peer reviewer is an important, critical professional activity and responsibility.

Psychology Research Unit of  the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, has been engaged in research internships during the Covid pandemic. Currently we have 12 research papers on educational, health and environmental psychology for manuscript peer review process. Research interns were trained on literature review, psychological test development procedure, multivariate statistical models before submission of the manuscript. Some research interns collected data on their own and some were provided the data for analysis.

Through the proposed Faculty Development Program our intention is to develop a good number of peer reviewers. The function of peer reviewers will be to improve the quality and clarity of the manuscripts. They will provide authors the knowledge in making publication decisions through lecture and training.

 

Eligibility : PG qualified, Research scholars, Assistant Professors, Associate Professors (preferebly having a Psychology and allied Science background)

Interested candidates may apply on or before 15th January, 2022, through email (psy@isical.ac.in)

Date : January 2022                                   No. of Seats : 20

 

1. Registration opens : 18th December, 2021.
   Registration closes : 15th January, 2022.
    

2. ON LINE REGISTRATION CLICK HERE
3. Registration fee : Rs. 2360 including 18% GST.
4. No spot registration.
5. Registration fee is to be made by NEFT or Demand Draft only in favour of  “ Indian Statistical Institute ” payable at Kolkata.
6. Please send your Registration to the Head, Psychology Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, 203, B.T. road, Kolkata, West Bengal, India - 700108.

Registration can be done through NEFT instead of bank draft.

Please produce (i) Name of Payees with his or her account number; (ii) Name of the registered person; (iii) Transaction document with phone number.
NEFT details are:

A. NAME OF THE BANK : PUNJAB NATIONAL BANK
B. ACCOUNT HOLDER(S) NAME : INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE
C. BANK ADDRESS : Dunlop Bridge, Kolkata, West Bengal
D. NEFT IFSE CODE : PUNB0397700
E. BANK ACCOUNT NUMBER : 0071050000118
F. ACCOUNT TYPE : CURRENT ACCOUNT
G. MICR CODE : 700024065

FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

ON MANUSCRIPT PEER REVIEW PROCESS

2 DAY WORKSHOP

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

 

 

Probable resource persons: 

1. Prof. P K Mishra -

Professor and Head, M.A., Ph.D (Psychology)Professor and Head, 

Department of Educational Psychology & Foundations of Education, NCERT.

Phone/EPABX No. 011-26560544 Email:head_depfe@rediffmail.com

2. Prof. Aradhana Shukla - aradhana.shukla5@gmail.com

Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Gorakhpur.

3. Prof. Jayanti Basu - basumjt@gmail.com jaybcu@rediffmail.com

Professor, Department of Applied Psychology, University of Calcutta.

4. Prof. Shah Alam - shahalam_captain@yahoo.com

Professor, Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University.

5. Prof. Tushar Singh - tusharsinghalld@gmail.com

Professor, Department of Psychology, BHU.

6. Navrattan Sharma - sharma_nr5@yahoo.com

Professor & Head, Department of Psychology, MDU.

 

 

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DETAILS OF RESEARCH INTERNS FOR THE COURSE FROM 2ND AUGUST TO 2ND OCTOBER, 2021

 

NAME	E-MAIL	Paper title	RESEARCH OBJECTIVES
Education group, Group leader: Sukhpreet Kaur
Somdatta Chattopadhyay	somdattachatterjee2807@gmail.com	Literature review on the correlates and tools used to measure reading motivation in primary school children	To review the correlates of reading motivation and tools used to measure reading motivation.
Sukhpreet Kaur	sukhpreet.0314@gmail.com	Literature review on writing motivation in primary school children	To determine the constructs of writing motivation defined in the existing research, identify and gather evidence on strategies to augment writing motivation among school children.
Aayushi Soral	aayushisoral@gmail.com	Reading And Writing Motivation in 11th and 12th graders.	To use analytical and logical reasoning to gain information from the data
Gargi	gargitiwary19@gmail.com	Reading Motivation Level Among B.Tech Students.	To assess the intrinsic, extrinsic and mixed of both motivation level of reading among B.Tech students.
*Raya Deb Sarkar	rayadebsarkar1997@gmail.com	Test-Retest reliability of Writing motivation of college students.	To examine test-retest reliability of writing motivation among college students.
Health group, Group leader: Mousumi Mayra
Mousumi Mayra	mousumi.mayra@gmail.com	Correlates of  resilience among   frontline health  care professionals	To explore the  correlates contributing  to resilience among frontline health professionals and strategies that foster resilience among health professionals during covid-19 through literature survey.
Payel Sarkar	payelpritha7@gmail.com	Complicated grief and resilience of frontline and nonfrontline workers.	1. To compare the complicated grief and resilience among the frontline health workers including doctors &nurses and non-frontline workers who are engaged in  work from home.2. To examine the interrelationship among above mentioned variables (complicated grief and resilience).
Purnima Pegu	purnimapegu2gmail.com	Impact of Covid-19 on mental health of health care providers.	To explore the impact of Covid-19 on mental health of health care providers through literature survey.
Sharmistha Chanda	csharmistha42@gmail.com	Pain perception, health efficacy and pain management of post COVID-19 patients.	To examine the relationship among pain perception, health efficacy and pain management efficiency of post  COVID-19 patients.
Environment group, Group leader:Umesh Sindhe
Vignesh Ramalingam	vgnshr@gmail.com	Determining Internal Consistency of Questionnaire measuring Green Buying and Waste Management	1. Construction of items measuring ProEnvironmental Behaviour towards Green Buying. 2. Construction of items measuring ProEnvironmental Behaviour towards Waste Management. 3. To find out the inter-item correlation coefficient and item total correlation of the questionnaire. 4. To determine the internal consistency of questionnaire measuring pro-environmental behaviour towards Green Buying and Waste Management. 5. To compare Pro-Environmental Behaviour between environmental science and nonenvironmental science students.
Umesh Shinde	ur.shinde0105@gmail.com	Determining Internal Consistency of Questionnaire measuring Energy Conservation behavior and Green Transport Use.	1. Construction of items measuring proenvironmental behaviour towards Energy Conservation. 2. Construction of items measuring proenvironmental behaviour towards Green Transport Use. 3. To find out the inter-item correlation coefficient and item total correlation of the questionnaire. 4. To determine the internal consistency of questionnaire measuring Pro-Environmental behaviour towards Energy Conservation and Green Transport Use. 5. To compare Pro-Environmental behaviour between environmental science and nonenvironmental science students.
Banani Basistha	bananibasistha6@gmail.com	Determining Internal Consistency of Questionnaire measuring Water Saving and Plant Conservation behavior.	1. Construction of items measuring proenvironmental behaviour towards water saving. 2. Construction of items measuring proenvironmental behaviour towards plant conservation. 3. To find out the inter-item correlation coefficient and item total correlation of the questionnaire. 4. To determine the internal consistency of questionnaire measuring pro-environmental behaviour towards water saving and plant conservation. 5. To compare pro-environmental behaviour between environmental science and nonenvironmental science students.

 

 

 

 

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Applications are invited by the Psychology Research Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata to be dissertation guide for two months (2^nd August to 2^nd October, 2021) research internship. This is the third phase research internship program during COVID-19 pandemic. Function of the dissertation guide is to supervise selected trainees to write the dissertation. The selected dissertation will be archived in the repository of the unit or the central library of the Institute as open access. Intern can present the paper in some conferences or publish in some research journals. Dissertation guide is requested to guide the interns for the above. Three areas are selected for research–Health Psychology, Educational and Environmental Psychology.

Qualifications: Ph.D in Environmental Science/Environmental Psychology / Educational psychology/ health psychology

*Certificate: One E-certificate will be given after the course. One token honorarium will be provided as per rules by account no.

*Experience: Teaching experience for 3-5 years in reputed Universities. Good knowledge in data analysis with R/SPSS/Stata. Publications of research papers in peer reviewed journals.

*Training mode: Online. High speed internet facilities are important.

*Application: Please send your application to the Head, Psychology Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata with full Curriculum-Vitae and at least 2 research papers published in peer reviewed journals.

E-mail: psy@isical.ac.in. Last date of application is 26th July,2021.

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Voluntary research supervisor

Selected Reviewers:

1. Dr Senthil Kumaran J
Head, Department of Psychology
Patrician College of Arts and Science
Chennai,
Tamilnadu, India.
E-mail: senthil.17777@gmail.com

 

2. Dr. Mrinal Mukherjee, Assistant Professor, Department of Teacher Education, Coordinator-PGDEPA (Adll. Charge), The West Bengal University of Teachers' Training, Education Planning and Administration (WBUTTEPA)
25/2 & 25/3 Ballygunge Circular Road, Kolkata 700019, West Bengal, India, Mobile: +919830954419/+918240751252. E-mail: dr.mmrinal@gmail.com

3. Dr. Sumona Datta, Assistant Professor & Head Department of Psychology, Adamas University, Mail Address: 1/A/1, Dakshinayan, Barasat Road, Sodepur, Kolkata-700110, Email id: sumonadatta.psych@gmail.com,Mobile Number: 9432175390

 

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(PSYCOUN2,2019)

TRAINING ON PSYCHOMETRIC COUNSELLING USING RATING SCALE

 

 

15-16, October 2019
Organized by
Psychology Research Unit,
INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE

 

SCOPE	Tentative Programme Schedule	ONLINE REGISTRATION	Status of Registration	Office bearers

BACKGROUND

The Psychology Research Unit: is a part of the Social Sciences Division of the Indian Statistical Institute. The major objectives of the Institute, as given in its Memorandum, are (a) to promote the study and dissemination of knowledge of statistics, to develop statistical theory and methods, and their use in research and practical applications generally, with special reference to problems of planning of national development and social welfare; (b) to undertake research in various fields of natural and social sciences with a view to the mutual development of statistics and these sciences; (c) to provide for, and undertake, the collection of information, investigation, projects and operational research for purposes of planning and the improvement of efficiency of management and production. The Institute has its headquarters in Kolkata and three major centres at Delhi, Bangalore and Chennai and a branch at Giridih. In addition, the Institute has a network of units of Statistical Quality Control and Operations Research at Baroda, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Pune. Psychology research Unit came into being from 1996, in place of Psychometric Research and Service Unit established in 1954, following a recommendation of second review committee in 1982. Scientists of this unit conduct research on application of Statistics and Mathematics in explaining different psychological phenomena and psychological test development through different internal and external funding projects, sometimes in collaboration with scientists of other units of ISI/ or other organizations. Besides, the faculties of the unit are involved in teaching and training activities and are providing Ph.D. guidance to the research fellows selected through All India Examinations of the Institute. Scientistis are also providing services in statistical or psychometric analysis of Psychological data Rating scale

Rating scale is useful objective measurement of knowledge, skills, aptitudes, attitudes, and personality.Psychometric practitioners are engaged in construction of items following several heuristic and statistical assumptions, administration of Psychological test, scoring, assessment of Reliability and Validity of Psychological tests. Generally it is assumed that psychometric approach to Psychological counselling involves designing counselling procedure based on Psychometric test scores. Therefore, Psychology Counsellors are limited to. But in the actual situation, counselor controls test items based on Psychometric test item statistics so that response will be reliable and useful for counselling. Psychology Research Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute has developed some methodologies that can help counselor to control both test item statement and the ratings. Aim of this training is to disseminate knowledge about Psychometric approach to Psychological counselling.The unit has conducted one training on Psychometric counselling ====================================== Psychometric approach to Psychological counselling helps client breaking down perception of self and the surroundings into 'grades' so that perception can be scaled. Scaling helps the client and counselor to understand extent of success and failure of the counselling across different target areas for intervention. This approach is non-clinical and non-labeling. Client becomes able to construct and reconstruct the environment. Client more readily takes ownership of their treatment goals and progress when asked to rate them on a scale.

This approach has some assumptions :
(a) Individuals are healthy and competent.
(b) They have the innate capacity to construct solutions and meanings that can enhance their lives.
(c) Individual is able to scale own abilities, self-concept and treatment goal.
(d) Individuals do not resist change; they in fact want to change.
(e) Scaling the change helps both counselor and the client to reduce counseling time.

 

FINAL PROGRAM SCHEDULE,(October 15-16, 2019)

Venue: Seminar room, Psychology Research Unit,7th floor, P.J.Auditorium,Indian Statistical Institute, 203,B.T.Road, Kolkata-700108.

15.10.19 (Tuesday)	Event
11-11:30	Inauguration-Invocation,Speech,Self-introduction.
11:30-1:30	Measurement in Psychological counselling - Dr. Rama Manna, Head, Department of Guidance and counselling, Indian Institute of Psychometry, Kolkata.
1:30-2	Lunch time(self-arranged)
2-4	Solution focused brief therapy - Ms. Sabornee Karmakar, M. Phil in Clinical Psychology, Sr. Research fellow, Psychology Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
16.10.19(Wednesday)	Event
11-1:30	Psychological scales and scaling - Dr. Rita Karmakar, Assistant professor, Amity Institute of Psychology and Allied Sciences. Amity University Kolkata.
1:30-2	Lunch time(self-arranged)
2-4	Case studies on Psychometric counseling. - Dr. Debdulal Dutta Roy, Head, Psychology Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.

Status of Registration

Name/s	Institute	Present status and Confirmation
1.Soumitri Bag	Banaras Hindu University	Confirmed
2.Debasmita Basu	University of Calcutta	Confirmed
3.ADITYA CHAKRABORTY	BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY	Confirmed
4.PIYUSHA GHOSH	Gujarat Forensic Sciences University, Gandhinagar	Confirmed
5.Payel Sarkar	University of Calcutta	Confirmed
6.Susama Dam	University of Calcutta	Confirmed
7.Sayanti Bose	University of Calcutta	Confirmed
8.soumya pandey	BBD University Lucknow	Confirmed
9.Ria Roy	West Bengal State University	confirmed
10. Dr.Janak Kumari Shrivastava	TNB College,TMBU Bhagalpur,Bihar	confirmed
11. Pallavi Majumder	Calcutta University	confirmed
12. IVAN DAS	Tripura University	confirmed
13. Anisha Karmakar	University of Calcutta	confirmed
14. Amrita Basu	Women's College, Calcutta University	confirmed
15. Priyani Nandy	Jayprakash institute of social change	Yet to be confirmed

 

Coordinator

Convener

Dr.Debdulal Dutta Roy,Head,Associate Professor, Psychology Research Unit,Indian Statistical Institute,203,BT Road,Kolkata-700108.

Student Convener

Ms. Sabornee Karmakar

Administration

1. Mr.Dipak Sarkar,Section officer,Psychology Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, 203, B.T. Road, Kolkata 700108.Ph:033-2575-3450
2. Mr.Swarup Ghara,Office Assistant(Grade- B),Psychology Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, 203, B.T. Road, Kolkata.Ph:033-2575-3450
3. Mr.Arup Sarkar,Office Assistant B,Psychology Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, 203, B.T. Road, Kolkata.Ph:033-2575-3450
4. Mr.Sanjoy Kumar, Scientific ASSISTANT 'C',Psychology Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, 203, B.T. Road, Kolkata.Ph:033-2575-3450 ------------------------------------------------>