Behind the Facts: Helping Students Evaluate Media Reports of Psychological Research

Autor/inn/en	Hall, Scott S.; Seery, Brenda L.
Titel	Behind the Facts: Helping Students Evaluate Media Reports of Psychological Research
Quelle	In: Teaching of Psychology, 33 (2006) 2, S.101-104 (4 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0098-6283
DOI	10.1207/s15328023top3302_4
Schlagwörter	Educational Media; Psychological Studies; Research Methodology; Learning Activities; Research Reports; Electronic Journals; Newspapers; Electronic Publishing; Comparative Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsmittel; Unterrichtsmedien; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Lernaktivität; Research report; Forschungsbericht; E-Journal; Newspaper; Zeitung; Elektronisches Publizieren
Abstract	This article describes an activity that can help students (a) understand how the research process influences the outcomes of that research and (b) appreciate the media's limitations of reporting research findings. Students read about research reported in an online newspaper and in a scholarly journal and responded to questions that guided their critique of the research methods and their comparison of the 2 sources. Quantitative and qualitative evaluations suggested that this activity can help students understand the impact of research procedures on a study's findings and to appreciate the limitations in the reporting of such findings from mainstream media sources. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10