STEP - A System for Teaching Experimental Psychology

STEP - 实验心理学教学系统

• 批准号: 9972437
• 负责人: Brian MacWhinney
• 金额: $ 27.55万
• 依托单位: Carnegie-Mellon University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-09-15 至 2003-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9972437&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: STEP; System; Teaching; Experimental; Psychology

In order to learn what it means to conduct empirical research in Psychology, students need to design and analyze their own experiments. However, students typically have few real interactions with the use of the microcomputer as a productive laboratory tool. The problem has been the lack of software that allows undergraduates to build experiments on their own. The shipping of the first version of the E-Prime system during the summer of 1999 opens up a fundamentally new way of addressing this problem. E-Prime is a robust, commercial experiment generation system. Because E-Prime is becoming recognized as the standard for building experiments in Psychology, it is now possible to construct a web-based resource that uses E-Prime as the delivery engine for a wide variety of instructional materials. We will call this system STEP (System for the Teaching of Experimental Psychology). There are seven specific goals in this project. 1. Building a package of classic experiments appropriate for introductory psychology classes. 2. Building 100 additional experiments as examples for the advanced undergraduate. 3. Building computer "wizards" and QuickTime videos to teach experiment creation. 4. Building tutorial materials to show students how to generate 30 classic experiments. 5. Writing instructor manuals with HTML links between sample E-Prime experiments and specific topics covered in current textbooks on experimental design and experimental psychology. 6. Working with the E-Prime development team to include new features that are important for the teaching of experimental psychology. In particular, these will include ability to display and control multimedia, administer surveys, and record ongoing observational behaviors. 7. Creating the social structures needed to support STEP. The project will be evaluated using a pretest-posttest design, item analysis, objective usage figures, and usability studies.

为了学习在心理学中进行实证研究意味着什么，学生需要设计和分析自己的实验。 然而，学生通常很少有真实的互动与使用微型计算机作为一个生产性的实验室工具。 问题是缺乏允许本科生自己建立实验的软件。 1999年夏天，第一个版本的E-Prime系统的推出为解决这一问题开辟了一条全新的途径。 E-Prime是一个强大的商业实验生成系统。 由于E-Prime被公认为心理学实验的标准，现在可以构建一个基于Web的资源，使用E-Prime作为各种教学材料的交付引擎。 我们将这个系统称为STEP（System for the Teaching of Experimental Psychology）。 该项目有七个具体目标。1.建立一个适合心理学入门课程的经典实验包。2.建立100个额外的实验作为高年级本科生的例子。3.建立计算机“向导”和QuickTime视频来教授实验创作。4.建立教学材料，向学生展示如何生成30个经典实验。5.编写教师手册，其中包含E-Prime实验样本与当前实验设计和实验心理学教科书中涵盖的特定主题之间的HTML链接。6.与E-Prime开发团队合作，加入对实验心理学教学很重要的新功能。 特别是，这些将包括显示和控制多媒体，管理调查，并记录正在进行的观察行为的能力。7.创建支持STEP所需的社会结构。 该项目将使用前测后测设计，项目分析，客观使用数字和可用性研究进行评估。