We had 2 groups this year with mixed credit and non-credit earning students. They started the year with an overview of my colleague's and my project and read the relevant research and picked out variables they wanted to explore on their own. They ended the year with a poster presentation at a small local conference (CSUSM Psychology Research Fair) for undergrad research presentations. Yes, I felt that the noncredit students maybe did a bit less, but the credit students didn't seem to mind picking up the slack.
These types of courses are pass/fail for us, so it was a no-brainer for a pass for all the credit students. It did not seem to get in the way of any administrative problems. One student was an ROTC scholarship student but with in his 17 unit cap. We do treat these as independent study units so maybe that's why it's not a problem. Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Professor, Psychological Sciences University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ________________________________ From: Claudia Stanny [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 9:21 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Research groups for credit? Does anyone structure their ongoing lab/research group as a credit-earning course (e.g., 1-hr credit per term with some sort of cap)? I'm looking for examples of syllabi for such an arrangement, including formal methods for evaluating student work (versus the less formal arrangement of treating these as Directed Studies). A related question is how instructors who use this system manage conflicts that might arise when some students are earning credit and others are not enrolled for credit. What happens when a credit-earning student must depend on a pure volunteer student who is insufficiently engaged with the ongoing project? Does the existence of courses earning fewer than 3 hours of credit create any administrative problems with financial aid, degree program accounability, and other "bookkeeping" aspects of formal course work? Claudia J. Stanny, Ph.D. Director, Center for University Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Associate Professor, Psychology University of West Florida 11000 University Parkway Pensacola, FL 32514 – 5751 Phone: (850) 857-6355 or 473-7435 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> CUTLA Web Site: http://uwf.edu/cutla/ Personal Web Pages: http://uwf.edu/cstanny/website/index.htm --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13534.4204dc3a11678c6b1d0be57cfe0a21b0&n=T&l=tips&o=2510 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-2510-13534.4204dc3a11678c6b1d0be57cfe0a2...@fsulist.frostburg.edu<mailto:leave-2510-13534.4204dc3a11678c6b1d0be57cfe0a2...@fsulist.frostburg.edu> --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=2517 or send a blank email to leave-2517-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
