Overview
Provides new undergraduate or graduate instructors with a step-by-step guide on how to create a psychological research methods course, from textbook selection to grading final reports
Offers myriad examples of weekly labs to help aid in course instruction
Discusses hypothetical difficult topics or situations that may occur in the classroom and suggests strategies for how to address them
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- teaching psychological research methods
- college-level instruction
- designing psychological experiments
- research pedagogy
- research presentations
- research methods in psychology
- classroom research versus publishable research
- assessing student performance in a research methods class
- how to teach research methods online
- final evaluation in a research methods course
- basic versus applied pedagogy
- syllabus creation for research methods course
- assessing classroom materials for research methods course
- student motivation in the classroom
- handling student anxiety in classroom
- learning and instruction
About this book
How to Teach a Course in Research Methods for Psychology Students is a valuable resource for anyone teaching a quantitative research methods course at the college or university level.
Reviews
“The book is likely to be more useful for less advanced lecturers. … For beginner tutors … it can be a helpful guide. … For experienced lecturers, it can be a time-saving book in which they can look at a well-crafted instruction for the organization of a methodological course and thus be inspired to work with their PhD students in the role of tutor. Therefore, the book can be a tool for supervisors to guide future lecturers.” (Jana Dlouhá, ISCB News, iscb.info, June, 2022)
“The book How to Teach a Course in Research Methods for Psychology Students by Ross A. Seligman will be useful for new teachers. It will also be interesting for Research Methods professors to read this book as an exchange of experience. In addition, this book was interesting to me personally as a way of acquiring new information about higher education in the United States, which is different from my experience in the Ukraine.” (Maria Ivanchuk, ISCB News, iscb.info, Issue 70, December, 2020)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Ross A. Seligman has been teaching Psychology Classes for over 27 years. He currently teaches at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, CA. Professor Seligman earned his B.A. Degree in Psychology at Occidental College in Los Angeles. He earned his M.A. Degree in Clinical Psychology at California State Los Angeles. He also completed his Ph.D. Coursework at The Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, CA. Professor Seligman has taught 16 different Psychology Courses throughout his career at several different Colleges and Universities. He has also worked as a Department Chair and Dean.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: How to Teach a Course in Research Methods for Psychology Students
Authors: Ross A. Seligman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42878-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42877-8Published: 14 April 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42880-8Published: 14 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-42878-5Published: 13 April 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 117
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Psychological Methods/Evaluation, Research Methodology, Statistical Theory and Methods, Teaching and Teacher Education, Learning & Instruction