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This enlightening book provides evidence-informed approaches, insights, and practical solutions for teaching psychological research methods effectively. Experienced and award-winning teachers explore strategies to revitalize the course, foster scientific thinking, promote student engagement, and address and use statistics and various research methodologies.
Recognising the diverse contexts in higher education, leading experts have created a comprehensive guide to teaching research methods in psychology. Providing pragmatic assignments and rubrics, the book is a valuable resource for building confidence in the classroom and alleviating student confusion on this essential yet challenging course. The book details ways to modernize and redesign a psychological research methods course, such as incorporating AI and improving equity. Chapters explore how to engage students in scientific thinking across the curriculum, including combatting misinformation, alternative teaching methods, fostering collaboration and culturally responsive teaching.
Teaching Research Methods in Psychology is an invaluable guide for educators teaching psychology at the college and university level. Its recommendations for best pedagogical practice are also beneficial to students, academics, and researchers across social sciences.
Contents
Contents
Preface x
Supplementary material xiii
1 The case for teaching research methods in psychology: An
introduction 1
Regan A. R. Gurung and Stephanie M. Byers
PART I Modernizing and redesigning psychological research methods
2 From content to application: Reinventing research methods
for today's psychology students 7
David B. Strohmetz,Natalie J. Ciarocco and Gary W. Lewandowski Jr.
3 Considerations for structuring (or restructuring) your research
methods course 19
Andrew N. Christopher,W. Robert Batsell Jr., Autumn B.
Hostetter and Eric Hill
4 Teaching psychological research methods at community
colleges: Enhancing diversity in psychology through inclusive
practices 36
Todd Allen Joseph and Heather Schoenherr
PART II Fostering scientific thinking in psychological research methods
5 Teaching research methods in content courses 52
Celeste Pilegard and Rian E. Drexler
6 "I've done my research": Teaching research methods to
combat false information 65
Holly Zell
7 Choose your words wisely: Recognizing and resolving lexical
ambiguity when teaching research methods 78
Victoria L. Cross
8 Learning how to read primary literature: A "Focus Article"
activity for research methods in psychology 95
Nicole Alea Albada and Vanessa E. Woods
9 Engaging students in real and open science 112
Jordan R. Wagge
PART III Promoting and sustaining class engagement in
psychological research methods
10 Using alternative teaching methods to promote student
engagement in research methods courses 131
Bryan K. Saville
11 The "Students as Partners" framework in teaching research
methods 145
Sangeeta Gupta, Ethan Fireside and Alyssa Peters
12 Redirecting the focus of an online research methods course:
Engaging the disengaged 159
Jisook Park and Darin Challacombe
13 Bridging the gap between research and civic engagement
through a case study of a culturally responsive research
methods course 172
Lauren Mathieu-Frasier and Reiko Habuto-Ileleji
PART IV Teaching about statistics and research tools in
psychological research methods
14 "It is impossible to run a full experiment in one term!" Using
secondary datasets to create effective short-term research
projects 188
Jacqueline A. Goldman
15 Measure once: Covering measurement in a research methods
course 202
Rosalyn Stoa
16 Talking about numbers: Essential statistics for research
methods 219
Andrew Olstad, Jacqueline Goldman and Regan A. R. Gurung
17 Facilitating research: NVivo lab manual for undergraduate
students 231
Marcie Coulter-Kern and Hannah Marie
