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Peer reviewedHuck, Schuyler W.; And Others – Teaching of Psychology, 1992
Presents a classroom demonstration illustrating the connection between spread and Pearson's r. Discusses different factors that may result in an increase, decrease, or no change in r. Describes an exercise using decks of playing cards to generate hypothetical data on variables of intelligence quotient (IQ) and grade point average (GPA). (DK)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Demonstrations (Educational), Higher Education, Predictor Variables
Direct linkGoolkasian, Paula; Van Wallendael, Lori; Gaultney, Jane F. – Teaching of Psychology, 2003
A public Web site (Goolkasian & Van Wallendael, 2001), established to provide educational materials in cognitive science, served as the primary text for an interdisciplinary course. We tracked student use of the Web site online and with self-report questionnaires. A majority (74%) of the students rated the Web site to be as useful or more useful…
Descriptors: Science Curriculum, Student Reaction, Internet, Questionnaires
Peer reviewedOsberg, Timothy M. – Teaching of Psychology, 1992
Describes a classroom demonstration that simulates a verbal encounter with a person experiencing symptoms of schizophrenia. Suggests that the instructor deliver an unannounced monologue that illustrates the disordered thought and speech of a person with schizophrenia. Discusses student evaluation of the demonstration. Concludes that students in…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Demonstrations (Educational), Higher Education, Introductory Courses
Peer reviewedCarr, James E.; Austin, John – Teaching of Psychology, 1997
Provides a brief overview of single-subject research designs. This method exercises its power by examining changes in single subjects' responses over time across experimental conditions. Describes a classroom project in which students collect repeated measures of their own behavior and graph the data. (MJP)
Descriptors: Causal Models, Data Collection, Data Interpretation, Demonstrations (Educational)
