Yes, I should also note that my Gen. Psych students generally enjoy their research participation and I integrate their experience with the research/science theme that I stress as integral to psychology. No one is coerced and they have many more options to earn extra credit. Gary Peterson
>>> "Bourgeois, Dr. Martin" <[email protected]> 5/6/2009 8:28 pm >>> Disclaimer: I was once accused of being a fox in charge of the henhouse when I chaired our subject pool committee at my previous institution. But I'm convinced that participating in research does provide a valuable educational experience to students taking intro psych courses. The responsibility is on the researchers to use the debriefing to make it a learning experience, explaining the hypotheses and the methods in detail. Our students report almost uniformly positive reactions to participating. Of course, we provide them an alternative assignment if they don't want to participate. ________________________________________ From: Joan Warmbold [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 8:05 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] educating participants in research Boy am I going to provoke reactions here but to me it seems unethical to require psychology students to be participants in research studies. And is it any surprise that forced participants sometimes don't take the research seriously? They might be irritated and/or feel they are being taken advantage of, and rightly so. There has to be a better way to obtain participants for research studies other than literally coercing students to do so if they wish to get credit in a course. Joan [email protected] > We try....to various levels of success. We try to emphasize the ethics > involved and have decided as as department to incorporate a discussion of > honest participation during the teaching of research ethics. Also, we > encourage students to do the alternate assignment if they really don't > want to do the studies. > > That's the best we can do. I'm anxious to hear better solutions to this > problem. I just ran a study where I am sure about 15% of my sample was > just blowing off a requirement because they performed so poorly :( I'm not > sure how to handle the data. > > Annette > > Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. > Professor of Psychology > University of San Diego > 5998 Alcala Park > San Diego, CA 92110 > 619-260-4006 > [email protected] > > > ---- Original message ---- >>Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 13:47:51 -0500 >>From: "Blaine Peden" <[email protected]> >>Subject: [tips] educating participants in research >>To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" >> <[email protected]> >> >> Our students and faculty conduct research with >> participants from introductory psychology and other >> courses. Some participants seem to do the studies in >> great haste and with little sincerity and thereby >> raise concerns about the quality of their data. Have >> you developed strategies or instructional materials >> that explain the process and purpose of >> psychological research to future participants and >> also promotes their involvement and integrity? I >> welcome any comments, suggestions, or resources. >> >> thanks so much, blaine >> >> --- >> To make changes to your subscription contact: >> >> Bill Southerly ([email protected]) > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly ([email protected]) > > --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
