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Benjamin L. Lloyd-Lewis; Dan J. Miller; Amanda E. Krause – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2024
Although research literacy is necessary for the competent delivery of psychological services, many psychology students hold negative attitudes toward research subjects. The current study explored undergraduate students' perceptions of research subjects relative to nonresearch subjects. A sample of 249 Australian (45.4%) and Singaporean (54.6%)…
Descriptors: Student Interests, Psychology, Majors (Students), Student Attitudes
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Sarafoglou, Alexandra; Hoogeveen, Suzanne; Matzke, Dora; Wagenmakers, Eric-Jan – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2020
The current crisis of confidence in psychological science has spurred on field-wide reforms to enhance transparency, reproducibility, and replicability. To solidify these reforms within the scientific community, student courses on open science practices are essential. Here we describe the content of our Research Master course "Good Research…
Descriptors: Psychology, Research Skills, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
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Button, Katherine S.; Chambers, Christopher D.; Lawrence, Natalia; Munafò, Marcus R. – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2020
There is a widely acknowledged need to improve the reliability and efficiency of scientific research to increase the credibility of the published scientific literature and accelerate discovery. Widespread improvement requires a cultural shift in both thinking and practice, and better education will be instrumental to achieve this. Here we argue…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, 21st Century Skills, Scientific Research, Teamwork
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Anglin, Stephanie M.; Edlund, John E. – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2020
Despite discussion and institution of new reforms in psychology research, little is known about how much reform psychologists believe is still needed across various research practices and whether instructors are teaching students about replication and reform in their courses. To investigate these questions, we distributed questionnaires assessing…
Descriptors: Psychological Studies, Research Methodology, Replication (Evaluation), College Faculty
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Jekel, Marc; Fiedler, Susann; Allstadt Torras, Ramona; Mischkowski, Dorothee; Dorrough, Angela Rachael; Glöckner, Andreas – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2020
The "Hagen Cumulative Science Project" is a large-scale replication project based on students' thesis work. In the project, we aim to (a) teach students to conduct the entire research process for conducting a replication according to open science standards and (b) contribute to cumulative science by increasing the number of direct…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Study, Student Research
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Grant, Janie Busby; Grace, Tim – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2019
Psychology graduates are employed in a wide variety of workplace roles. The broad nature of these future workplace requirements can make it difficult for students to learn and apply classroom knowledge and challenging for educators to develop authentic and engaging materials. In research methods and statistics courses in particular it can be…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Psychology, Research Methodology, Statistics