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PSY305 Fall 2007 SCHEDULE  - This is a sample schedule so you can see the workload involved. Please be cautious about choosing other courses during the term in which you take this course. It is the foundation course for the discipline and is critical for graduate school admission.

Schedule/Due Dates Information
All assignments are officially due by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time (either EST or Daylight Savings) on the date indicated.  It is essential that you have adequate internet and computer access. You cannot be away from email for more than a day or two. You should plan on spending at least 12-15 hours per week on this course.

Note that there is a GREAT deal of work to accomplish this semester. While I have eliminated a couple of the assignments that I used during past semesters, I am not changing the fundamental work of this course. Summer is a shortened semester so please be sure you have sufficient time to devote to this course. To do so would be to shortchange you. Thus some weeks, there may be more than one assignment due. I strongly recommend that you buy a calendar with a monthly view and mark ALL due dates on it. Lateness is not an option for most items.

       

 
1

9/4 - 9/9

Beins,  Chapter 1: Psychology, Science and Life

Appendix B – Statistics Review

Submit Introductions (extra credit)

Week One Work
Statistics Review Quiz

VAIL plagiarism tutorial
Demographics Questionnaire
Work Habits Questionnaire
Read 305 to 305 (in  Week 1 Conference)

9/9
2

9/10 - 9/16

Beins, Chapter 2: Ethics in Research: Following the Golden Rule

Beins, Chapter 3: Planning Research, Generating a Question

1. Activity 1, Part A - Scientific Literacy
2. Activity 1, Part B Ethics Activity
3.Introductions to group
 

9/16
3

9/17 - 9/23

Beins, Chapter 4: Practical Issues in Planning Your Research

APA Manual, Chapter 4

Beins, Chapter 5: Conducting an Experiment: General Principles

 

1. Quiz 1

2. Library Activity

3. Hypothesis for Lab 1
 

 

 9/23
4

9/24 -/9/30

Beins, Chapter 6: Design of Simple and Complex Experiments
 

1.  List of sources in APA style

2.  Begin work on /introduction/literature review

3. Activity 2

9/30
5

10/1 -10/7

Beins, Chapter 7 Repeated Measures and Quasi- Experiments

1. Introduction and Literature Review for Lab 1 (minimum 8 sources)

2. Simulation data for lab one

3. Quiz 2

10/7
6

10/8 - 10/14

Beins, Chapter 8: Survey Research

Beins, Chapter 9 Correlational Research

1. Methodology for Lab 1

2. Review Board Form for Lab 1

10/14
7

10/15 -10/21

Beins Chapters 10 & 11: Observational and Longitudinal Research
Beins, Chapter 12: Cultural and Individual Differences

1. Results for Lab 1

2. Conclusions for Lab 1

 

I will assign RT groups and articles this week. Summaries are due 11/1

10/21
8

10/22- 10/28

Beins, Appendix A: Writing a Research Report

1.      Lab 1 Poster

2.      Lab 1 Final Lab Report

3.      Group Evaluation for Lab 1

10/28
9

10/29 - 11/4

 

1. Individual Roundtable Summaries 11/1 

2. Lab 2 Choices

3. Poster Reviews

4.  Activity 3 (Cross Cultural Issues)

5. Quiz 3

11/1, 11/4
10

11/5 - 11/11

 

1. Data for Lab 2

2. Review Board Form for Lab 2

11/11
11

11/12 - 11/18

 Roundtable Week

Note that the Roundtable MUST be up by 11/11 11 pm EST to allow others to begin to discuss your topic on the first day of this week)

2. Manage RT and respond to others

11/18
12

11/19 - 11/25

 

 Work on Lab 2

 11/24
13       11/26 - 12/2  

1. Activity 4 - Careers

2. Quiz 4

 12/1
14       12/3 - 12/9  

1. Lab 2 Poster and Report

2. Group Evaluation

 12/9
15        12/10 - 12/19   Parting Thoughts/305-305 extra credit due 12/12
Take Final Exam		 12/12, 12/19