Development and Use of Open Educational Resources in Research Methods for Psychology

Research methods course(s), a standard in psychology programs, often use multiple textbooks to address conceptual and data-analytic information. This study involved transitioning from traditional textbooks to open educational resources in a research methods course. Two psychology instructors, each o...

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Autores principales:	Stephanie da Silva, Katherine White
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Georgia Southern University 2021
Materias:	open access research methods open educational resources subject guides inclusion Theory and practice of education LB5-3640
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/f795b6e1074e4444876b363da2782528
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:f795b6e1074e4444876b363da27825282021-12-02T18:48:35ZDevelopment and Use of Open Educational Resources in Research Methods for Psychology1931-474410.20429/ijsotl.2021.150209https://doaj.org/article/f795b6e1074e4444876b363da27825282021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/ij-sotl/vol15/iss2/9https://doaj.org/toc/1931-4744Research methods course(s), a standard in psychology programs, often use multiple textbooks to address conceptual and data-analytic information. This study involved transitioning from traditional textbooks to open educational resources in a research methods course. Two psychology instructors, each offering course sections, identified open-access textbooks that aligned with course learning objectives and developed instructional materials to accompany those textbooks. All materials were organized publicly in an institutional subject guide. We compared students’ grades, pretest-posttest scores, and survey reports of resource use and evaluation in a spring semester, when traditional/costly textbooks were used, to the following fall semester, when no-cost textbooks were used. Student grades and pretest-posttest growth, and reported use and ratings of course materials, were similar across semesters. Though the present findings are limited in scope, they suggest that no-cost resources can be used successfully for teaching research methods with minimal transition difficulties and without student learning deficits.Stephanie da SilvaKatherine WhiteGeorgia Southern Universityarticleopen accessresearch methodsopen educational resourcessubject guidesinclusionTheory and practice of educationLB5-3640ENInternational Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Vol 15, Iss 2 (2021)
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description	Research methods course(s), a standard in psychology programs, often use multiple textbooks to address conceptual and data-analytic information. This study involved transitioning from traditional textbooks to open educational resources in a research methods course. Two psychology instructors, each offering course sections, identified open-access textbooks that aligned with course learning objectives and developed instructional materials to accompany those textbooks. All materials were organized publicly in an institutional subject guide. We compared students’ grades, pretest-posttest scores, and survey reports of resource use and evaluation in a spring semester, when traditional/costly textbooks were used, to the following fall semester, when no-cost textbooks were used. Student grades and pretest-posttest growth, and reported use and ratings of course materials, were similar across semesters. Though the present findings are limited in scope, they suggest that no-cost resources can be used successfully for teaching research methods with minimal transition difficulties and without student learning deficits.
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Development and Use of Open Educational Resources in Research Methods for Psychology

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