Inclusion of Audio and Video Analysis System in Teaching Observational Methods in Developmental Psychology

通过该项目，提高了观察研究方法在心理学本科高年级班的教学效果。 具体目标是提高学生对经验数据与心理学理论之间关系的理解。 大学生在心理学研究方面的三个薄弱环节正在得到解决。 首先，学生们开始理解心理学如何在模糊的、现实世界的研究条件下保持方法论的严谨性。 其次，学生将观察到的现象视为数据，而不是个人经验。 第三，学生们了解到心理测量并不适用于真实的事物，而是被构建的。 通过要求学生积极参与并充分支持学生活动的教学方法，可以最好地实现学生的预期变化。 儿童与文化研讨会为学生提供了在教师指导下进行观察研究的机会。 本课程的学生小组负责规划和开展一个研究项目，其中包括一个简短的调查，两个半结构化的采访与成人和儿童，和四个会议的系统观察成人儿童和儿童在正式和非正式的背景下互动。 该项目包括录音和录像以及录音和录像数据的计算机编码和分析。 这种方法的好处包括提高学生研究的效率;通过观察员软件开发代码方案的坚固支架;在课堂上使用材料进行纵向说明，当学生无法直接观察时;以及重复和共享相同的记录材料。 *

Through this project, the teaching of observational research methods in an upper-level undergraduate psychology class are being improved. The specific goals pertain to the improvement of the students' understanding of the relationship `etween empirical data and psychological theory. Three areas of weakness in the thinking of undergraduates about psychological research are being addressed. First, students come to understand how psychology maintains methodological rigor in spite of fuzzy, real-world conditions of research. Second, students perceive observed phenomena as data, not personal experience. Third, students learn that psychological measurement does not apply to real things, but is constructed. The desired change in students can be best achieved through instructional methods that require students' active involvement and that adequately scaffold student activity. Seminar on Childhood and Culture provides students with the opportunity to engage in observational research with an instructor's guidance. Groups of students in this course are responsible for planning and carrying out a research project, which involves a brief survey, two semi-structured interviews with an adult and a child, and four sessions of systematic observation of adult child and child child interaction in formal and informal contexts. The project includes audio and video recording and computerized coding and analysis of audio and video data. The benefits of this approach include increased efficiency of student research; firm scaffolding of code scheme development by The Observer software; use of materials in class for longitudinal illustrative purposes, when direct student observation is inaccessible; and the repetition and sharing of the same recorded material as many times as necessary. *