Hi Ken. This is a neat idea, and one that I think students could
feasibly do. Thanks. This gives me some good ideas.
Mark
At 04:52 PM 8/22/2009, Ken Steele wrote:
Mark A. Casteel wrote:
I've often wondered if anyone has had students try to research
topics like (1) the negative effects of texting while performing
other activities or (2) the influence of the presence/absence of a
gun on memory for a simulated crime, without requiring working with
experimental software like E-prime or PsyScope. In other words, has
anyone thought of a fairly easy way that students could research a
topic like this, and collect data that would be both meaningful and
(to their way of thinking) more interesting? If I could provide
guidance with something like this, so the students don't waste the
entire semester simply coming up with a workable protocol, that
would be fabulous.
Hi Mark:
Since most of the arguments on TIPS has been about students texting
in class then why don't you do a study on that situation.
You could present information on ppt slides while the students are
texting back and forth. They are responsible for information that
is being presented on the ppt slides and responding in a quick
fashion to the text mesages. You could manipulate the rate of text
messages sent and received and the rate at which ppt slides are
presented. The ppt slide show could be modeled after a typical
class, with names, theories, dates, and experimental results
presented across slides.
Good luck,
Ken
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