NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 3 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Aruguete, Mara S.; Huynh, Ho; Browne, Blaine L.; Jurs, Bethany; Flint, Emilia; McCutcheon, Lynn E. – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2019
This study compared the quality of survey data collected from Mechanical Turk (MTurk) workers and college students. Three groups of participants completed the same survey. "MTurk" respondents completed the survey as paid workers using the Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing platform. "Student Online" respondents also completed the…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Research Methodology, Sampling, College Students
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Jorgensen, Terrence D.; Marek, Pam – Teaching of Psychology, 2013
To determine the effectiveness of 20- to 30-min workshops on recognition of errors in American Psychological Association-style writing, 58 introductory psychology students attended one of the three workshops (on grammar, mechanics, or references) and completed error recognition tests (pretest, initial posttest, and three follow-up tests). As a…
Descriptors: Workshops, Program Effectiveness, Error Patterns, Writing (Composition)
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Caballero, Marcos D.; Kohlmyer, Matthew A.; Schatz, Michael F. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2012
Students taking introductory physics are rarely exposed to computational modeling. In a one-semester large lecture introductory calculus-based mechanics course at Georgia Tech, students learned to solve physics problems using the VPython programming environment. During the term, 1357 students in this course solved a suite of 14 computational…
Descriptors: Mechanics (Physics), Introductory Courses, College Science, Problem Solving