Hi Carol:
We are in the process of developing lab classes also. Many of
our classes are too large to embed the lab within the course. So
our labs will be stand-alone courses. We plan to offer a lab
paired with every major course and then allow students to select
from a subset. For example, we will offer a lab in Learning,
Perception, Cognitive, and Physio but the student will only need
to take 2 labs from that set of four. There are lots of practical
and pedagogical reasons why we went with a "sampling" strategy in
lab experiences.
In addition, we are offering internship or other field
experiences as another kind of "lab" experience. They are another
column in our menu. The whole package of lab and field
experiences is treated as "experience in doing psychology."
One reason that we purchased a network version of E-Prime was to
allow people to develop simple lab experiments as opposed to
using canned demos. The network version allows e-prime program
development on all computers that are on a specified network.
There is a limit of how many E-Studio program development
sessions can be in operation simultaneously but we have never
reached that limit. We have more than a dozen faculty using E-Prime.
Ken
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Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. [email protected]
Professor & Assistant Chairperson
Department of Psychology http://www.psych.appstate.edu
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608
USA
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On 2/23/2011 5:05 PM, Carol DeVolder wrote:
Hi,
Annette's question about lab software reminded me of some
questions I've been meaning to ask. My department is in the
process of developing lab experiences for some of our courses.
The courses we have in mind are Learning and Memory, Sensation
and Perception, and Social Psych; however, this is all very
formative at this time. My questions are for those of you who do
have labs: What courses are the part of? Are they embedded within
the course or as a separate experience (a la chemistry lab)? What
kinds of activities do your students complete? Anything else you
can tell me would be greatly appreciated, including sample
syllabi. I teach the S & P course, and last time I used a lab
manual and had students complete exercises as part of the course.
I'd love to turn it into a more rigorous lab experience though.
Thanks,
Carol
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Carol DeVolder, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology
St. Ambrose University
518 West Locust Street
Davenport, Iowa 52803
563-333-6482
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