On Thu, 6 May 1999, Rick Froman wrote:
> To those of you who teach a Research Methods course:
>
> 1) What percentage of time during the term do you spend in class on
> demonstrations and lab-type data collection and analysis as opposed to
> covering content and principles underlying research methods? This
> does not include out-of-class time spent on projects.
this is a great question. I _ALWAYS_ run out of time to cover the
content because of the time devoted to lab-type activities. I'd way
at least 20% but I have never kept track--probably should next time
I teach it but I am getting a break for one semester this fall by
picking up some honors intro. I'd be willing to keep track next spring
if that would help anyone--well, maybe it would help me the most, OK
I've talked myself into it......
>
> 2) Have you ever taught the course with separate lecture and lab
> components (like the natural sciences do) with maybe one or two
> content-coverage classes during the week and then a lab period? What
> do you think of this schedule?
Yes, in the upper division level we have a lab and a content-linked
course. Each is a 3-unit class which meets 3 hours per week. the way
we got around the usual lab requirement of meeting extra hours per week is
that we call it our upper division writing course in research in
psychology. All of our students must take at least one of these courses
but we encourage those thinking of grad school to take more.
I like this very much and we consider it our (informal) capstone
experience in that it brings together content and research--it need
not be experimental, by the way, and indeed the developmental course
is minimally so, it is mostly non-experimental or quasi-experimental
in some small component.
annette
>
> I will collect all answers and summarize for the list.
>
> Rick
>
>
> Dr. Rick Froman
> Psychology Department
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> "The plural of anecdote is not data."
>
> - Roger Brinner, Economist, Data Resources International
>
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