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Your Students' Participation in the
Psychology Research Subject Pool
Information and Brief Questionnaire for the Upcoming Term
The
department has a practice of asking instructors--especially for Psyc
101, but for other courses as well--to encourage their students to
participate in the subject
pool
either by:
(a)
providing extra credit for each 1/2 hour of participation, while
offering
alternative means of extra credit to students who do not wish to be
research
subjects, or
(b)
requiring students to complete a certain number of hours as a research
participant, with a penalty for non-participation rather than credit
for
participation (again, with an alternative option for students who do
not wish
to be research subjects).
Instructors
vary with respect to the number of hours students are asked to
contribute. Four hours seems to be typical. In addition, many instructors teaching
Psyc
courses other than Psyc 101 find it appropriate to have their students
participate in the subject
pool.
IMPORTANT.
If your students will participate in the
subject pool . . .
- This brief (two-slide) PowerPoint may be used as an in-class introduction and/or paper handout for your students.
- If you decide to put
an Experimetrix link on your Blackboard site, please configure it to
open in a new
window rather than as a frame within Blackboard. Experimetrix
won't work properly from within a frame.
- Ask your students to
register in Experimetrix by the end of the first week
of classes.
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Inform them that their
research credit may not
count unless they both
register and make a course selection in
Experimetrix (this is explained on the Experimetrix web site).
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On permiting researchers to come to your
class to arrange research
appointments:
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If you let researchers
come to your class to
sign-up research participants, rather than having participants go
through Experimetrix, there is a risk that some students' research
credits may not be
properly recorded.
This is becuase students who have
never had to make an appointment through Experimetrix may neglect to
register in Experimetrix. To ensure that your students
register, you might consider having an assignment (at the end of the
1st week) that requires them to hand in a printout of the Experimetrix
login page that shows their current accumulated credits.
- As the term comes to a close, remind
your students that the last
day to participate in research is Friday (5 pm) of the last day of
classes, and that they must assign all of their credits (to courses
they've selected) by the following Saturday at 11:59 pm.
Please Submit the
Following Form
if you
will teach Psychology
101 or another course during the upcoming
term in which students will participate in the
Psychology Subject Pool.
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