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David A. M. Peterson – Cogent Education, 2023
Measurement in the social sciences involves assigning values to particular empirical cases and plays a vital role in the research process, but it can be tricky to teach. Unless an undergraduate social sciences research methods course includes the collection of original data, many of the issues of measurement can seem abstract and arcane to…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Lecture Method, Statistics, Social Sciences
Anthony Underwood; Aidan Sichel; Emily C. Marshall – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2024
Economics has become increasingly empirical and, alongside this shift, has come more demand for improved transparency and reproducibility in empirical economic research. In this article, we distribute a survey to almost 1500 economics faculty from the top 161 liberal arts colleges with an economics major (according to U.S. News & World Report)…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Economics Education, Undergraduate Students, Liberal Arts
Frazier, Brandy N.; Gelman, Susan A.; Wellman, Henry M. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2016
Research with preschool children has shown that explanations are important to them in that they actively seek explanations in their conversations with adults. But what sorts of explanations do they prefer, and what, if anything, do young children learn from the explanations they receive? Following a preliminary study with adults (N = 67) to…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Epistemology, Concept Formation, Knowledge Level
Hyytinen, Heidi; Holma, Katariina; Toom, Auli; Shavelson, Richard J.; Lindblom-Ylänne, Sari – Frontline Learning Research, 2014
The study utilized a multi-method approach to explore the connection between critical thinking and epistemological beliefs in a specific problem-solving situation. Data drawn from a sample of ten third-year bioscience students were collected using a combination of a cognitive lab and a performance task from the Collegiate Learning Assessment…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Biological Sciences, Student Attitudes
Brank, Eve M.; Fox, Kathleen A.; Youstin, Tasha J.; Boeppler, Lee C. – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2008
The current research employs the use of content analysis to teach research methods concepts among students enrolled in an upper division research methods course. Students coded and analyzed Jimmy Buffett song lyrics rather than using a downloadable database or collecting survey data. Students' knowledge of content analysis concepts increased after…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Teacher Education Curriculum, Singing, Research Methodology
Gonder, Jennifer, Ed.; Howell-Carter, Marya, Ed.; Anderson, Jessica, Ed. – Online Submission, 2013
Included herein is the conference proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference on the Teaching of Psychology: Ideas and Innovations, sponsored by the Psychology Department of the State University of New York at Farmingdale. The conference theme for 2013 was: The Science of Learning. The Conference featured a keynote address by Victor Benassi, Ph.D.…
Descriptors: Psychology, College Instruction, Conferences (Gatherings), Undergraduate Students