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Activities for teaching statistics and research methods : a guide for psychology instructors /
"This book was designed to address the need for a comprehensive collection of classroom-tested activities that would engage students, teach correct principles, and inspire instructors. Each chapter describes one or more activities that are pedagogically sound, practical, easily implemented, and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, DC :
American Psychological Association,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Jeffrey R. Stowell and William E. Addison
- I. Statistics. Reducing anxiety in the statistics classroom / Tamarah Smith
- How to lie with the y-axis / Thomas E. Heinzen
- Summarizing data using measures of central tendency : a group activity / Thomson J. Ling
- How fast is your internet? an activity for teaching variance and standard deviation / Bonnie A. Green and Jeffrey R. Stowell
- Getting dicey : thinking about normal distributions and descriptive statistics / Robert McEntarffer and Maria Vita
- A low-anxiety introduction to the standard normal distribution and measures of relative standing / Laura Brandt and William E. Addison
- Using the heat hypothesis to explore the statistical methods of correlation and regression / George Y. Bizer
- Active learning for understanding sampling distributions / David S. Kreiner
- Testing students for ESP: demonstrating the role of probability in hypothesis testing / William E. Addison
- Using a TV game show format to demonstrate confidence intervals / Alexis Grosofsky
- Real-life application of type I and type II decision errors / Bernard C. Beins
- Factors that influence statistical power / Michael J. Tagler and Christopher L. Thomas
- An interdisciplinary activity for p values, effect sizes, and the law of small numbers / Andrew N. Christopher
- II. Research methods. An activity for teaching the scientific method / R. Eric Landrum
- Linking identification of independent and dependent variables to the goals of science / Mary E. Kite
- Everything is awesome : building operational definitions with play-doh and Legos / Stephanie E. Afful and Karen Wilson
- A demonstration of random assignment that is guaranteed to work (95% of the time) / Thomas P. Pusateri
- Identifying confounding factors in psychology research / Chris Jones-Cage
- Demonstrating experimenter and participant bias / Caridad F. Brito
- The most unethical researcher : an activity for demonstrating research ethics in psychology / Sue Frantz
- The ethics of behavioral research using animals : a classroom exercise / Harold Herzog
- Demonstrating interobserver reliability in naturalistic settings / Janie H. Wilson and Shauna W. Joye
- Using a classic model of stress to teach survey construction and analysis / Joseph A. Wister
- Using childhood memories to demonstrate principles of qualitative research / Steven A. Meyers
- Using a peer-writing workshop to help students learn American Psychological Association style / Dana S. Dunn.