This assignment helps students practice scientific literacy and literature searches. Students find a media posting that makes a psychology-related scientific claim and a peer-reviewed research article that speaks to that claim. Students then write an essay evaluating the media claim based on the scientific conclusions. Please click here for the file.
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This resource provides a guide for how to take notes on research, as well as a template for taking notes on empirical articles and review articles/chapters. It also provides an example set of notes for an empirical article. It can be used as the basis for a note-taking assignment given to prepare student to write
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This activity has students take notes on a short research article by completing a template. An answer key, notes template, and note taking guide are provided. Please click here for the file.
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This assignment will help guide students through doing a literature search on a research topic (determined by you) by going through your campus library website and searching PsycINFO. Please click here for the file.
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This assignment/activity has students practice finding research articles by using adages as research hypotheses. The assignment requires students to search for research articles that support or refutes the hypotheses. Please click here for the file.
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Video (4:34) In this TED Talk Melissa Marshall discusses the importance of scientists being able to communicate their studies to the general public and provides some tips for doing so effectively.
A clip (5:30) from the The Daily Show with Jon Stewart that demonstrates how sampling bias and demand characteristics can lead to misleading conclusions. “Poll Bearers: Cable news polls might not reflect public opinion so much as the ability of viewers to repeat the ideas they just heard.” View the episode here.
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Establishing a rapport with students is connected to students’ success, interest, and pro-academic behaviors. Rapport can be particularly hard to establish in an online learning environment. One way to help establish rapport is by starting the semester with a survey that helps you get to know the students and their needs. Teachers who do this
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