This 60-minute lesson is intended to be used for a class meeting after students have read about sampling. It is geared towards students in Experimental Psychology but part of it was adapted from an Introductory Statistics lesson about sample…
Mini Lesson on Evaluating Measures and Validity
Mini Lesson on Evaluating Measures and Validity
Mini Lesson on Variables
This is a mini lesson on independent and dependent variables. It includes an activity involving extroversion and the number of Facebook friends for students to practice identifying variables, discuss the validity, reliability, and confounds of the study. This resource…
Mini Lesson on Variables – Extroversion and FB Friendship Scatter Plot
Mini Lesson on Variables – Extroversion and FB Friendship Scatter Plot
Mini Lesson on Validity
This mini lesson on validity discusses different types of validity, and provides activities for students to design a Likert scale, and generate alternative measures to assess the quality of relationships. This mini lesson may be used in a Research…
Mini Lesson on Quasi-Experimental Design
This mini lesson on quasi-experimental design is aimed to teach students how to identify the difference between experimental and quasi-experimental design. It also includes an activity to practice generating ways to control for confounds in an quasi-experimental design. This resource…
Sampling Techniques
This is an approximately 5 minute lesson on Sampling Methods. It contains information on probability (including random, stratified, systematic, and random cluster sampling) and nonprobability (including convenience, purposive, expert, and snowball sampling) sampling and examples of each. One set…
Intelligence testing — lesson plan
Here is the lesson plan for a double period Lesson plan for Intelligence and IQ Testing Here is the powerpoint that I have used for the Smarties and DumDums mini-lesson Activity_SmartiesnDumDums_short adapted from Lewandowski (2003). Lewandowski, G. W., Jr. (2003, March).…
