Table of Contents. How to write a research question. Films for research methods. Writing a research proposal. The Seven Steps of the Research Process. The Research Process. Steps in the Research Process. Exercise_5. Aguado. JB.doc. Research Methods: Activities We Already Do. It has been my experience as a teacher that students often feel very distant from formal Social Research Methods...that is, these Methods seem very much apart from their lives and are quite imposing to them.
While undoubtedly there are some students who take to them immediately, the great majority of people feel quite intimidated by them and the prospect of learning them. By and large, social research is thought of as something “experts” do...social scientists with a great deal of education and experience, not something “ordinary” people do...especially not without specialized training. While there certainly is some truth to these ideas, if left at this level of understanding, students will tend to react to research with much doubt and angst. However, I don’t think this is the only option when approaching either a Research Methods component in an Introductory course, nor in an upper-level course in Social Research Methods (primarily for discipline majors).
Experiments Surveys Interviews. Teaching of Psych Idea Exchange: An OTRP Resource / Research Methods in the Classroom. Main -> In the Classroom: Research Methods Dogbert demonstrates how NOT to collect data via phone surveys (via notawfulandboring.blogspot.com) Using the free software at FreeIAT , you can create your own implicit association tests.
With faculty supervision, this could provide some interesting lessons for a Research Methods course. Instructor's Guide to Using Research Methods and Statistics Concept Maps (2013) from the Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology (OTRP): (Original content compiled by Mitchell Handelsman from suggestions collected via the PsychTeacher Listserv) Saville, B. Stanovich, K.E. (2010). Materials, activities and methods to help students differentiate between empirical methods (case study, naturalistic observation, survey, correlation, experiments) I use Stanovich's, How to think Straight... as my introduction to methods in the class and we usually run an assessment study in the class.
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