How to do your own experiments in psychology and education
Read me first: What will you do in this course?
This course is all about doing research, not just reading about it.
Together with another student from the class (your partner), you will
The main idea is that you need to do real research yourself, with plenty of support and supervision, so that you can:
We'll be organized very much like a professional research lab: different groups working on different, related problems, with similar difficulties and demanding deadlines. There's lots of support and supervision so that you have everything that you need to produce a professional-looking research work that will make you proud.
Now, read the second "read me" : Read me second
Together with another student from the class (your partner), you will
- plan an experiment,
- collect your own data with real people,
- analyze your data with statistics, and
- report your results both in writing (an APA-formatted research paper manuscript) and orally (a PowerPoint presentation in front of the class).
The main idea is that you need to do real research yourself, with plenty of support and supervision, so that you can:
- understand better how professional researchers work,
- decide whether you'd like to do more research, for example, in graduate school,
- show everyone what your very best work looks like,
- get used to working on complex projects with other people
We'll be organized very much like a professional research lab: different groups working on different, related problems, with similar difficulties and demanding deadlines. There's lots of support and supervision so that you have everything that you need to produce a professional-looking research work that will make you proud.
Now, read the second "read me" : Read me second
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