The Utilization of Collaborative, Peer-Assisted, and Web-Enhanced Learning Approaches in an Introductory Psychology Research and Learning Enhancement Laboratory

研究与学习增强实验室（R&amp；LE）项目旨在提高初级水平的本科生对心理科学研究和统计方法的理解。为了实现这一目标，该项目以罗德岛大学开发的LEARN项目为基础，创建研究和学习增强实验室，为心理学入门学生提供协作、同伴辅助和网络增强教学法。学生们将在R&amp；LE实验室的三小时心理学导论课程中花一小时。另外两个小时的课程是在以讲座为基础的课堂上进行的。在实验的R&amp；LE实验课程中，学生的表现与只由课堂组成的对照课程中的学生进行了比较。绩效指标包括提高学生的定量技能、基本心理学概念的知识、研究和统计自我效能感、动机、认知学习策略和归属感。该项目的结果和方法正在向几个机构的STEM教师传播。通过论文、手册和研讨会，教师们正在学习如何将这些方法纳入他们的课程，以及如何在他们的教育培训中尽早让学生参与合作研究活动。

Psychology - Biological (71), Psychology - Cognitive (73)The Research and Learning Enhancement Laboratory (R&LE) project is designed to enhance introductory-level undergraduate students' comprehension of research and statistical methods in the psychological sciences. To achieve this goal, the project is building on the LEARN program, developed at the University of Rhode Island, to create research and learning enhancement laboratories that incorporate collaborative, peer-assisted, and web-enhanced pedagogies for introductory psychology students. Students spend one hour of a three hour Introduction to Psychology course in an R&LE lab; the other two hours of the course are spent in a lecture-based classroom. Performance of students in the experimental R&LE lab course is being compared to students in a control course that consists only of lecture classes. Performance measures include increases in students' quantitative skills, knowledge of basic psychological concepts, research and statistics self-efficacy, motivation, cognitive learning strategies, and sense of belonging. The results and methods of the project are being disseminated to STEM faculty at several institutions. Through papers, manuals and workshops, faculty are learning how to incorporate these methods in their courses, and how to engage students in collaborative research activities very early in their educational training.