Source : Laboratoires de Gary Lewandowski, Dave Strohmetz et Natalie Ciarocco — Université de Monmouth
Comme le Président département de psychologie à l’Université de Monmouth, j’enseigne principalement haut niveau étudiants de premier cycle qui s’intéressent aux méthodes expérimentales. Ces classes n’est pas le même appel inhérent aux étudiants. Cette collection de JoVE psychologie aidera les élèves regarder du fait d’autrui les expériences en cours de bout en bout, permettant leur accès aux plus une douzaine sujets auxquels ils peuvent être confrontés pas autrement. Ce qui est important, les vidéos fournissent un contexte pour voir les expériences incorporés dans leur état naturel, dans le processus de recherche proprement dite.
Quelques projets dans cette collection de sciences de l’éducation se démarquent. Tout d’abord, je considère l’éthique dans la vidéo de recherche psychologique d’une grande utilité dans l’enseignement, car il montre des sujets sensibles, tels que la violence interpersonnelle, peuvent être étudiés de façon créative. En outre, les élèves apprennent mieux avec les sujets qu’ils se soucient et peuvent conceptualiser dans leur vie personnelle. Par exemple, recherche d’observation se penche sur les facteurs qui entrent dans la nostalgie, allant au-delà des questionnaires et en examinant la relation quels individus réellement partir vers dans leurs chambres. Cette conception permet au chercheur de découvrir curieusement les conclusions que les élèves ne peuvent pas être pleinement conscients d’eux-mêmes.
Étant un instructeur et auteur de méthodes de recherche, je suis très conscient de l’absence relative de ressources de qualité qui sont disponibles pour bien enseigner la psychologie expérimentale. Ces vidéos de JoVE aidera à faire vivre de la matière pour les instructeurs et en particulier pour les élèves qui ne reçoivent pas nécessairement la possibilité de compléter leurs propres projets de recherche.
So my name is Dr. Gary Lewandowski. I’m the department chair of psychology at Monmouth University. So my typical students are upper-level psychology majors, generally juniors and seniors. Many of the courses they’ve taken have been a couple of research classes.
They’ll take our experimental methods course, which I teach, which focuses on experimental design, writing, all in preparation for their senior thesis, where every one of my seniors will take their very own research idea, and sort of take it from start to finish over the course of a semester.
So one of the biggest challenges I face with teaching upper-level research is that psychology students don’t generally come into psychology thinking that they wanna do research. Rather, they wanna help people, they wanna go into counseling, more of the applied areas.
It’s only through being a psychology major that they really realize that much of what we do in psychology focuses tremendously on research. So, the research courses just don’t have the same intuitive appeal as something like abnormal psychology, child psychology, or social psychology. So one of the real challenges you face with that is keeping students interested, or actually, really getting them interested in a topic that they’re just not inherently interested in, in the first place.
So the JoVE Science Education videos are really gonna be helpful for students because it’s not every student that gets to do his or her own research, and so there are certain things in life that are just most useful to learn by doing, and research is one of those things.
There’s only so much you can learn by reading a textbook and learning how to do a research study or having someone describe it to you. Really, the absolute best, the gold standard would be to do your own study, but logistically, that’s just not practical for every student. The next best thing is to vicariously watch somebody else do a study from start to finish, which is really the next best thing. You can read about a study in a textbook, or even a journal, there’s something that is really beneficial about seeing it in action, and particularly seeing a study from start to finish. So this gives the students the opportunity to see over a dozen different experiments, and gain some exposure that they may not otherwise get.
So what I think is most useful about these JoVE Science Education Videos is that, rather than focusing on an isolated concept, for example, just focusing a video on what is an independent variable, everything with research is best understood in context, and ideally in the context of a study that’s actually taking place. And so what you’re getting with these videos is seeing the concepts embedded in their natural state as a person is going through the research process. So rather than taking concepts out in a way that’s artificial, you’re really seeing them embedded where they belong, which is in the research process.
So the video that I think is probably the most useful of all the videos is probably the ethics video. Because I think it’s really important for students, particularly early in a course, to really understand how ethics guides all of our decisions throughout the research process. Often students, or those who are new to ethics, tend to think that, because we have to sort of weigh the cost and the benefits, and we can’t do harm, that it’s really tough to study sensitive topics, but that’s really not the case. When you learn a little bit about research methods, your creativity in the design of the study will allow you to study things like interpersonal violence in really creative ways, as you’ll see in this video.
So really, the best way to learn anything is to put it in the context of your real life, and though that may seem difficult with research methods, really the best research focuses on things and topics that students care about. For example, one of the videos in this series focuses on homesickness, so rather than just simply giving somebody a questionnaire that says, how homesick are you, this video shows a way that research can really delve into how homesick somebody is through some of the things they leave around their room. And this is the interesting part of research, right? I mean you get to delve into people’s lives, you get to be a little bit curious to see really what’s going on in ways that they may not fully understand themselves.
As a research methods instructor myself, and author of a research methods textbook, I’m keenly aware of the relative lack of quality resources that are out there to teach this course, which is sad because this is one of the most important courses that students will take, but it’s also one of the most difficult to teach, and to teach well. So having these videos at the disposal of the instructor will really help bring the material to life, particularly for those students who don’t get the chance to do their own in-depth research project, or just for any instructor who’s looking to bring a little bit more life to their classroom, or to have students look at things online as part of a flipped classroom environment.
