OToPS/Teaching resources
Purpose of this Page
editThis page is intended to help those who are teaching research based courses find resources to use in their course. This page consists of PowerPoints, videos, templates, web links and more to help instructors compile resources for their students in research based classes. The example syllabus below includes the resources and links to aid in teaching a research based course. The example syllabus is from a psychology course, so the intended focus is on psychological research.
Example Syllabus with links
editThis is an example syllabus for a course that teaches psychological research. In this syllabus you will find topics that are covered each class period, along with recommended readings/videos, and assignments. Links are embedded to different resources and videos including information about using R and Zotero.
| Topic | Reading/Video | Product/Notes | |
| Introduction, Tour of Syllabus | Baseline
Where are we starting? Here is where you should assess where students are in their level of expertise. | ||
| Getting set up - Software Treasure Hunt:
Download R & R Studio; Zotero and Zotero plugin Open Teaching of Psychological Science (OToPS) |
D5 presidential address
(82 min) Updated Slides from Keynote |
In class: Housekeeping,
Discuss Keynote (breakout) Show Zotero, OSF Projects (2019) Get software
EAY To Do over weekend: [] Set up teams (roster more stable) | |
| Codebooks and Lab Notebooks;
Intro to Korea/UNC Checking assumptions |
Baumer Ch. 2 & 3 | In class:
Data and Notebook tour | |
| Visualization I: Exploratory data analysis (EDA)
In EDA mode, we are looking for convenience and understanding, not worried about style or story (yet) |
Field Ch. 4 - exploring data with graphs
EDA slides - basic visualizations |
[] Korea-UNC Survey due Sunday Night (11:59 pm Eastern) (~75 min to complete) Last Day to drop class without a W on transcript |
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| The Old Big Data: Gapminder and Epidemiological Studies
Wide vs. Tall, Skinny; nesting Items vs. scales, Cronbach's alpha |
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| NHSR – making sure your idea is new, and registering it with IRB (and discuss Clinical Trials.gov) (exercise: identify target database, variables, hypotheses, analyses; register with IRB) | Field Ch. 5 - exploring assumptions | [] Make ORCID;
[] Make OSF account [] List Zotero email, ORCID, and OSF on To Do Table here | |
| Searching effectively: Cochrane and meta-analyses as “Sparknotes for research”; Reference management software; levels of evidence idea from EBM and TRIP; searching for data (Odum Institute, Murray Center, ICPSR U Michigan, CDC) (UNC Dataverse) | In class
-- walk through R notebook Introduced jamovi |
How to save syntax in Jamovi
(special thanks, Yunshu Yu and Colin Park) |
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| Literature Searching I
Zotero |
Field Ch. 6 - correlation (after this, you’ll pick the chapters for whichever statistics you use for your projects) | ||
| Checking assumptions - rule of thumb: +/-3 for skew or kurtosis | |||
| Matching levels of measurement with analyses, visualizations | Review AARF (template) | [] List of variables, descriptives for your main measure and demographics | |
| Making scales and components: Internal consistency, unit weighting, component and factor analyses | Baumer Ch. 4 & 5 (data wrangling and tidy data)
YouTube Video (from 2.25 - catching up) |
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| Models as pictures - Correlation and regression | Writing models in R ← 3 page sheet about notation | Link to Dr. De Los Reyes ‘Become Prolific’ Presentation (Pt. 1 w Pt. 2 Queued up | |
| And-But-Therefore
More with Zotero |
Olson chapter 7: Methods--The ABT Sentence (in Sakai) | Levels of Reading starts at 41:56 | |
| More models, starting abstract | YouTube Video | ||
| Variable names versus constructs;
walking through dummy coding; setting up analyses in R (setCorr example) New! get rstatix, and it will do everything you learned in 210, except for chi-squared. Examples here |
YouTube Video from 2021 | [] Planning update due–
Template here; submit by linking your Google Doc to the “Planning Canvas” column on our ToDo list sheet (link at top left of this table) Aims, Research Questions/Hypotheses + variables, descriptives (from earlier) + diagram or model (FYI: compare this to a one page canvas, or one for a real paper) | |
| Multiple regression output; comparing dummy coding to t-test and ANOVA | YouTube Video | [] Link to your draft abstracts in the column on our (Abstract template here) due in class
Link to view list of 2019 versions | |
| More about interpreting the analyses | Quinn & Rush article
(Note that the assumption is that you will be reading articles related to your projects for the rest of the semester…) |
[] First draft Abstracts due in class | |
| New patterns of reporting: Supplemental materials, COI, archiving of data and syntax, OSF, OSF Meetings | YouTube Video of 2021 class meeting - COI, changes in patterns of reporting | ||
| SPRING BREAK! (NO JINX!) | |||
| Poster review in class | In class: Poster Rating 1.0
(due by start of class Thurs) YouTube recording of lecture 2021 |
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| Alternate poster format
Video by the inventor Template (official) We could build our poster entirely inside R Markdown! (and notes about using it) |
YouTube recording of lecture
2021 In class: Pick poster to use as template, link it to ToDo sheet, start editing |
[Feedback on abstracts] | |
| Good presentation
II: Think about Ink:Data Ratio (Tufte, 1983; Yau, 2011) and the best format for the message (Kosslyn, 2006) |
YouTube Video of lecture
Basic graphics in R Output devices (and saving files) For those interested in more of Tufte’s ideas |
Keep working on abstracts;
Note that none of the above are “final” – this is making sure that all are started, and that you can upload! | |
| Breakout rooms --
look at posters, Notebooks (5 min per person), get files uploaded onto OSF and linked to Wikiversity |
Tips for presenting a poster (and 3 minute pitch):
Feldman, D. B., & Silvia, P. J. (2010). Public speaking for Psychologists: A lighthearted guide to research presentations, job talks, and other opportunities to embarrass yourself. American Psychological Assn. (chapter 8) |
Initial scoring of your poster and OSF (10% of score for poster based on completion) | |
| Effect sizes and Power | Slides
Free Power Software: YouTube recording of Power Lecture |
[] Abstract, syntax to OSF tonight
→ Power homework due 4,12 linked here https://flowingdata.com/2014/11/12/relationship-status/ — Resource if you want to use a map in your poster: Free custom maps (if you don’t want to build in R) | |
| Meta-analysis – effect sizes are connected; heterogeneity; quality | Slides
Converting Effect Sizes |
Key for Poster Rubric 2021 | |
| Publication and dissemination: Peer review, open access, Creative Commons, Wikipedia | YouTube of our retrenchment 2021 |
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| Review for final in class
POSTERS DUE!!!!!!!! by start of class |
Small group format, group score can count for 10% of your final exam grade – must be present synchronously! |
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| Poster session in class
More presentations |
Easter Egg: Future Directions Forum Abstract Submissions! Due June 10 to present in June!
Peer reviewed product added to your CV! |
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| Wrap up - Future Proofing | YouTube video 2021 | Post-test about research skills, how much we learned | |