Research Methods for Everyday Life

Section I. Statistics --
1. Generating Data Sets --
Making data analysis realistic : incorporating research into statistics courses / W. Burt Thompson --
Crafting questionnaire-style data : an SAS implementation / John F. Walsh --
A BASIC program for generating integer means and variances / Bernard C. Beins --
A simple procedure for generating nonnormal data sets : a FORTRAN program / John F. Walsh --
Publication bias : a computer-assisted demonstration of excluding nonsignificant results from research interpretations / Todd C. Riniolo --
2. Illustrating Statistical Concepts --
Teaching students about graphs / David J. Pittenger --
Elaborating selected statistical concepts with common experience / Kenneth A. Weaver --
A "bag of tricks" for teaching about sampling distributions / Dominic J. Zerbolio Jr. --
Demonstrating the influence of sample size and reliability on study outcome / Michael J. Strube --
3. Examining Statistical Tests --
An intuitive approach to teaching analysis of variance / David E. Johnson --
ANOVA MultiMedia : a program for teaching ANOVA designs / Jeffrey Lee Rasmussen --
One-way between subjects design : simulated data and analysis using SAS / John F. Walsh --
ANOVAGEN : a data generation and analysis of variance program for use in statistics courses / Leslie J. Cake and Roy C. Hostetter --
Using summary statistics as data in ANOVA : a SYSTAT macro / John F. Walsh --
A computer program that demonstrates the difference between main effects and interactions / Michael J. Strube and Miriam D. Goldstein --
On testing for variance effects / Jane L. Buck --
Demonstrating the consequences of violations of assumptions in between-subjects analysis of variance / Roberto Refinetti --
Understanding correlations : two computer exercises / Miriam D. Goldstein and Michael J. Strube --
Pearson's r and spread : a classroom demonstration / Schuyler W. Huck, S. Paul Wright, and Soohee Park --
4. Developing Students' Skills --
Computer-assisted statistical analysis : a teaching innovation? / Mark E. Ware and Jeffrey D. Chastain --
Developing selection skills in introductory statistics / Mark E. Ware and Jeffrey D. Chastain --
A microcomputer-based statistics course with individualized assignments / Richard L. Rogers --
Classroom use of the personal computer to teach statistics / Patricia A. Oswald --
Standard errors of statistics students / Kenneth B. Melvin and Kristi R. Huff --
Writing assignments in statistics classes encourage students to learn interpretation / Bernard C. Beins --
Assessing writing and statistical competence in probability and statistics / Paul C. Smith --
How often are our statistics wrong? : a statistics class exercise / Joseph S. Rossi --
Teaching statistics with the Internet / Connie K. Varnhagen, Sean M. Drake, and Gary Finley --
Stimulating statistical thinking through situated simulations / Sharon Derry, Joel R. Levin, and Leona Schauble --
5. Evaluating Success in Statistics --
Teaching basic statistical concepts through continuous data collection and feedback / Jean M. Low --
Repeat examinations in introductory statistics courses / Herbert Friedman --
Formal operations and learning style predict success in statistics and computer science courses / Mary A. Hudak and David E. Anderson --
Strategies and resources for teaching statistics to visually impaired students / Anita M. Meehan, Derrie Hoffert, and Laurence C. Hoffert --
Section II. Research Methods --
1. Reducing Students' Fears --
Taking the fear out of research : a gentle approach to teaching an appreciation for research / Christiane Brems --
A "handy" way to introduce research methods / David E. Johnson --
Reducing fear of the laboratory rat : a participant modeling approach / Nigel Barber --
2. Evaluating Ethical Issues --
Students' roles, rights, and responsibilities as research participants / James H. Korn --
Effect of incentives and aversiveness of treatment on willingness to participate in research / James H. Korn and Kathleen Hogan --
The subject-experimenter contract : a reexamination of subject pool contamination / Kitty Klein and Brian Cheuvront --
Effects of subject pool policy on student attitudes toward psychology and psychological research / James G. Nimmer and Mitchell M. Handelsman --
3. Teaching Ethics --
Ethics case-study simulation : a generic tool for psychology teachers / Mark R. McMinn --
Using the Barnum effect to teach about ethics and deception in research / Bernard C. Beins --
Teaching research ethics through role-play and discussion / Robert L. Rosnow --
The use of role-play in teaching research ethics : a validation study / David B. Strohmetz and Anne A. Skleder --
Undergraduate research and the institutional review board : a mismatch or happy marriage? / Carl A. Kallgren and Robert T. Tauber --
Discussing animal rights and animal research in the classroom / Harold A. Herzog --
4. Reviewing the Literature --
Library instruction for psychology majors : minimum training guidelines / Joyce Merriam, Ross T. LaBaugh, and Nancy E. Butterfield --
Assessment of PsycLIT competence, attitudes, and instructional methods / Lynn Cameron and James Hart --
Getting the most from PsycLIT : recommendations for searching / Kathleen E. Joswick --
A strategy for improving literature reviews in psychology courses / Retta E. Poe. 5. Using Computers --
A microcomputer-based lab for psychology instruction / Paula Goolkasian --
Learning about microcomputers and research / Blaine F. Peden --
Computer literacy in the psychology curriculum : teaching a database language for control of experiments / Robert H. Rittle --
6. Implementing Teaching Strategies --
Defying intuition : demonstrating the importance of the empirical technique / Art Kohn --
Teaching hypothesis testing by debunking a demonstration of telepathy / John A. Bates --
Basketball game as psychology experiment / James A. Polyson and Kenneth A. Blick --
Devising relevant and topical undergraduate laboratory projects : the core article approach / Kerry Chamberlain --
Use of the jigsaw technique in laboratory and discussion classes / David W. Carroll --
The problem method of teaching research methods / Donald H. McBurney --
The research methods script / Thomas L. Wilson and Douglas A. Hershey --
Using an everyday memory task to introduce the method and results sections of a scientific paper / William R. Marmie --
Interpreting students' interpretations of research / Richard B. May and Michael A. Hunter --
Research methods Jeopardy : a tool for involving students and organizing the study session / Bryan Gibson --
7. Demonstrating Systematic Observation and Research Design --
An observational emphasis in undergraduate psychology laboratories / Dwight Krehbiel and Paul T. Lewis --
Naturalistic observation of behavior : a model system using mice in a colony / Harold A. Herzog Jr. --
Simulating Clever Hans in the classroom / Michael J. Marshall and David R. Linden --
"The eye of the beholder" : a classroom demonstration of observer bias / Miriam D. Goldstein, J. Roy Hopkins, and Michael J. Strube --
A classroom demonstration of single-subject research designs / James E. Carr and John Austin --
Factorial design : binocular and monocular depth perception in vertical and horizontal stimuli / Dominic J. Zerbolio Jr. and James T. Walker --
Return to our roots : raising radishes to teach experimental design / William M. Stallings --
A computerized Stroop experiment that demonstrates the interaction in a 2 x 3 factorial design / Mark W. Vernoy --
8. Teaching Writing and Critical Thinking --
Student research proposals in the experimental psychology course / William E. Addison --
What goes where? : an activity to teach the organization of journal articles / Ruth L. Ault --
Collaborative writing in a statistics and research methods course / Dana S. Dunn --
Formatting APA pages in WordPerfect : an update / Timothy J. Lawson and Randolph A. Smith --
The human subjects review procedure : an exercise in critical thinking for undergraduate experimental psychology students / Richard W. Hubbard and Kathy L. Ritchie --
Using riddles to introduce the process and experience of scientific thinking / Joe W. Hatcher Jr. --
From the laboratory to the headlines : teaching critical evaluation of press reports of research / Patricia A. Connor-Greene --
Taking a course in research methods improves reasoning about real-life events / Scott W. VanderStoep and John J. Shaughnessy --
A course to develop competence in critical reading of empirical research in psychology / Moshe Anisfeld --
9. Emphasizing Accuracy in Research --
Teaching students the importance of accuracy in research / Terry Cronan-Hillix --
Teaching commitment to accuracy in research : comment on Cronan-Hillix (1988) / Catherine S. McDonald and Keith A. Peterson --
Teaching students the importance of accuracy in research : a reply to McDonald and Peterson / Terry Cronan-Hillix --
Teaching the importance of accuracy in preparing references / Blaine F. Peden --
10. Fostering Students' Research and Presentations --
Undergraduate research groups : two models / Pamela Reed Gibson, Arnold S. Kahn, and Virginia Andreoli Mathie --
A summer internship in psychological research : preparation of minority undergraduates for graduate study / Steven Prentice-Dunn and Michael C. Roberts --
A research practicum : undergraduates as assistants in psychological research / Mary C. Starke --
Collaborative learning in an Introduction to Psychological Science laboratory : undergraduate teaching fellows teach to learn / Andrew F. Newcomb and Catherine L. Bagwell --
A radical poster session / Paul A. Gore Jr. and Cameron J. Camp --
Poster sessions revisited : a student research convocation / Jerome Rosenberg and Ronald L. Blount --
In-class poster sessions / Brian N. Baird --
Preferences about APA poster presentations / Andrea A. Welch and Charles A. Waehler.