Activity: APA Research Reports — What Goes Where?
This activity asks students to reconstruct an APA style research report by logically organizing individual paragraphs from a published research article. Click here for a link to the assignment.
Empirical Article
Is One Study as Good as Three? College Graduates Seem to Think So, Even if They Took Statistics Classes
Abstract When people interpret the outcome of a research study, do they consider other relevant information such as prior research? In the current study, 251 college graduates read a single brief fictitious news article. The article summarized the findings of a study that found positive results for a new drug. Three versions of the article …
Empirical Article: Is It Worth Updating Your Methods Course?
This paper describes the approach we took when revamping our methods course. These are the features that we have highlighted on this site and in our textbook. Please click here to read the full article. Ciarocco, N., Lewandowski, G. W., Jr., & Van Volkom, M. (2013). The impact of a multifaceted approach to teaching research …
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