Resources for Teaching Psych Methods and Stats
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This collection of resources was identified during discipline conversations conducted in April 2020 during the COVID 19 pandemic. The identified resources are generally free to use but should not be presumed to be openly licensed or accessible. Direct access to this page is available via: tinyurl.com/OERI-PSY2020
APA Corona Virus Response - Free Access to the Publication Manual and Other Resources During the Coronavirus Pandemic Links to an external site.
Experiments and Demonstrations
Teach Psych Science Links to an external site. has posted a large number of peer reviewed activities to demonstrate a variety of research methods and statistics concepts.
The Mind Project Links to an external site. offers interactive virtual neuroscience and psychology labs.
APA Online Psychology Laboratory Links to an external site. - "Go beyond classroom discussions of psychology to immerse your students in psychological research. Login below to access demonstrations, assign experiments to your students to participate in, and download datasets for students to analyze."
The Barnum Effect Links to an external site. - An overview of what this effect is - and a "personality test" to demonstrate it.
Face Research Demonstration Links to an external site. - A sampling demonstration that shows how if you combine enough faces, you get the same result. This demonstration is part of faceresearch.org Links to an external site.that also "...allows you to participate in short online psychology experiments, most of which are about how we perceive faces and voices". "In addition to participating in face perception experiments Links to an external site., you can also complete lifestyle and personality questionnaires Links to an external site. about characteristics that may be associated with face and voice perception and see how you compare to others."
Rossman/Chance Applet Collection Links to an external site. - Data analysis, sampling, probability, etc. One colleague's reaction? "demos and simulations; ohhhhh the simulations"
Statistical Tools - Online or Free Download Available
VassarStats: Website for Statistical Computation
Links to an external site. - "Welcome to the VassarStats website, which I hope you will find to be a useful and user-friendly tool for performing statistical computation. " "All materials on this site are subject to applicable US and international copyright laws and conventions. © Richard Lowry 1998-2020 All rights reserved"
QuickCalcs Links to an external site. - "Run statistical analyses quickly and directly in your browser." This site does offer some functionality for free, but is associated with products that have a cost.
JASP - A fresh way to do statistics Links to an external site. - JASP is an open-source project supported by the University of Amsterdam. JASP offers standard analysis procedures in both their classical and Bayesian form.
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https://www.socialpsychology.org/methods.htm#generalstats Links to an external site.
Edit your auto captions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45cgMqrd7qc Good Question
Access assessment PPT - https://asccc.org/events/2020-04-13-160000-2020-04-24-220000/asccc-small-group-discussions