Description
Book SynopsisThis book offers original, classroom-tested activities to teach high school and undergraduate students essential concepts in research methods and statistics.
Table of Contents Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Jeffrey R. Stowell and William E. Addison
Part I: Statistics
Chapter 1: Reducing Anxiety in the Statistics Classroom
Tamarah Smith
Chapter 2: How to Lie With the Y-Axis
Thomas E. Heinzen
Chapter 3: Summarizing Data Using Measures of Central Tendency: A Group Activity
Thomson J. Ling
Chapter 4: How Fast Is Your Internet? An Activity for Teaching Variance and Standard Deviation
Bonnie A. Green and Jeffrey R. Stowell
Chapter 5: Getting Dicey: Thinking About Normal Distributions and Descriptive Statistics
Robert McEntarffer and Maria Vita
Chapter 6: A Low-Anxiety Introduction to the Standard Normal Distribution and Measures of Relative Standing
Laura Brandt and William E. Addison
Chapter 7: Using the Heat Hypothesis to Explore the Statistical Methods of Correlation and Regression
George Y. Bizer
Chapter 8: Active Learning for Understanding Sampling Distributions
David S. Kreiner
Chapter 9: Testing Students for ESP: Demonstrating the Role of Probability in Hypothesis Testing
William E. Addison
Chapter 10: Using a TV Game Show Format to Demonstrate Confidence Intervals
Alexis Grosofsky
Chapter 11: Real-Life Application of Type I and Type II Decision Errors
Bernard C. Beins
Chapter 12: Factors That Influence Statistical Power
Michael J. Tagler and Christopher L. Thomas
Chapter 13: An Interdisciplinary Activity for p Values, Effect Sizes, and the Law of Small Numbers
Andrew N. Christopher
Part II: Research Methods
Chapter 14: An Activity for Teaching the Scientific Method
R. Eric Landrum
Chapter 15: Linking Identification of Independent and Dependent Variables to the Goals of Science
Mary E. Kite
Chapter 16: Everything Is Awesome: Building Operational Definitions With Play-Doh and LEGOs
Stephanie E. Afful and Karen Wilson
Chapter 17: A Demonstration of Random Assignment That Is Guaranteed to Work (95% of the Time)
Thomas P. Pusateri
Chapter 18: Identifying Confounding Factors in Psychology Research
Chris Jones-Cage
Chapter 19: Demonstrating Experimenter and Participant Bias
Caridad F. Brito
Chapter 20: The Most Unethical Researcher: An Activity for Demonstrating Research Ethics in Psychology
Sue Frantz
Chapter 21: The Ethics of Behavioral Research Using Animals: A Classroom Exercise (PDF, 909KB)
Harold Herzog
Chapter 22: Demonstrating Interobserver Reliability in Naturalistic Settings
Janie H. Wilson and Shauna W. Joye
Chapter 23: Using a Classic Model of Stress to Teach Survey Construction and Analysis
Joseph A. Wister
Chapter 24: Using Childhood Memories to Demonstrate Principles of Qualitative Research
Steven A. Meyers
Chapter 25: Using a Peer-Writing Workshop to Help Students Learn American Psychological Association Style
Dana S. Dunn
Index
About the Editors
