Using the Power Balance Wristband to Improve Students' Research-Design Skills

Autor/inn/en	Lawson, Timothy J.; Blackhart, Ginette C.; Gialopsos, Brooke M.
Titel	Using the Power Balance Wristband to Improve Students' Research-Design Skills
Quelle	In: Teaching of Psychology, 43 (2016) 4, S.318-322 (5 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0098-6283
DOI	10.1177/0098628316662763
Schlagwörter	Research Design; Research Methodology; Critical Thinking; Control Groups; Pretests Posttests; Exercise; Scientific Methodology; Muscular Strength; Handheld Devices; Measurement Equipment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Forschungsdesign; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Kritisches Denken; Übung; Muskelkraft; Messinstrument
Abstract	We describe an exercise involving the power balance wristband (PBW) designed to enhance students' ability to design scientific tests. An instructor demonstrated that the PBW improved a student's balance, strength, and flexibility and invited students to design and conduct a brief scientific test of the PBW. Research methods students who participated in the exercise significantly improved their ability to design scientific tests of the PBW and another pseudoscientific practice (i.e., Healing Touch); students enrolled in the control sections of the course showed no improvement. Incorporating this single-class exercise into research methods courses has the potential to not only improve students' critical thinking about pseudoscience but also improve their research-design skills. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01