Activities thatEngage Students inResearch Methods
Workshop presented
at the 37th Annual National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology
St. Petersburg Beach, Florida
January 3, 2015
William M. Trochim
Resources
- Presentation (Powerpoint)
- Activity 1: Engagement Activity or "Teachable Tidbit"
- Facebook and "Emotional Contagion" Example
- Kramer, A.D.I., Guillory, J.E., & Hancock, J.T. 2014. Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks. PNAS, 111, 8788-8790. Available at: http://www.pnas.org/content/111/24/8788.full
- Teachable Tidbits Resources
- Teachable Tidbits General Categories
- Forms for Standardizing Teachable Tidbits
- Active Learning Resources
- Ciaccia, L., Tsang, T. and Handelsman, J. Summary of Key Papers on Efficacy of Active Learning, accessed from http://cst.yale.edu/sites/default/files/active%20learning%20bibliography.pdf
- Facebook and "Emotional Contagion" Example
- Activity 2: Role Play Simulations
- Research Methods Role Play Manual (MIcrosoft Word)
- Research Methods Role Play Manual (PDF)
- Activity 3: Dice Rolling Simulations
- Simulations for Research Design (Original Web Version)
- Simulations for Research Design 2015 (Microsoft Word)
- Simulations for Research Design 2015 (PDF)
- Dice Rolling Handout for Generating Data (Microsoft Word)
- Activity 4: Validity Thinking
- Campbell, D.T. and Ross, L.H. (1968). The Connecticut Crackdown on Speeding: Time-Series Data in Quasi-Experimental Analysis. Law & Society Review, 3, 1, 33-54. (PDF)
Research Methods Role Play Manual
A complete semester-long role play of a research study of the effects of the the comparative efficacy of two prevalent forms of treatment, inpatient and outpatient, for persons with dependence on cocaine
Simulations for Research Design
A comprehensive manual of both dice rolling and computer-based (Minitab) simulations that address five major topics in research methods. The manual is available in both Microsoft Word and PDF formats:
- Data Generation (using true score theory)
- The ranomized experimental design
- The nonequivalent groups design
- The regression-discontinuity design
- Regression artifacts (regression to the mean)