New ToPIX Content: 8/22/13

This update includes additions to the Statistics in the News, Statistics Video, History Video, Learning Video, and Plagiarism in the Classroom pages. 


Need to sell the importance of statistics to your Stats or Methods students? Statisticians are being called in to determine whether public policy is ethical. Check out this update to the Statistics in the News page about PA's Voter ID Law. This update was posted by Assistant Editor, Jessica Hartnett, (Not Awful and Boring.Blogspot).

Also see the Statistics Video page (courtesy of Assistant Editor, Jessica Hartnett, via Not Awful and Boring.Blogspot) for problems that arise when the media misinterpret research findings. Gerd Gigernezer argues that these practices are unethical. 

A student-produced video on Phineas Gage was posted to the History Video page (courtesy of Amanda O'Bryan via the STP Facebook Group). 

Two videos that illustrate classical and operant conditioning (the viral Classical Conditioning at BGSU, and the Real Salsa Dancing Dog) were posted to the Learning Video page. Thanks Maya Sen and Sharon Richards, respectively, for contributing via the STP Facebook Group.

A new ToPIX page, Plagiarism in the Classroom, was created to accommodate Sue O'Donnell's recommendation of online plagiarism tutorials (via the STP Facebook Group).

Thanks Jessica, Amanda, Maya, Sharon, and Sue for your contributions to ToPIX!

If you have any ideas or resources to share with colleagues, please send them to TOPIX@TeachPsych.org.

New ToPIX Content: 8/8/13

This update includes additions to the Statistics in the News, I/O in the Classroom, Memory Video, and Neuroscience Video

Topics such as the link between suicide and coffee, health and where you live, and vaccines and autism can be used to spice up Stats and Methods lessons. These materials for lessons on the nature of correlational research can be found on the Statistics in the News page (courtesy of Sue Frantz via Twitter). 

Another look at the Hawthorne Effect was added to the I/O in the Classroom page (also courtesy of Sue Frantz via Twitter).

A TED Talk, "Feats of Memory Anyone Can Do" by Joshua Foer was posted to the Memory Video page (courtesy of Jaclyn Spivey via the STP Facebook Group). 

Video links were updated, and a teaching guide for "Pieces of Mind: The Man with Two Brains" was added to the Neuroscience Video page. 

Thanks Sue, and Jaclyn for your contributions to ToPIX!

If you have any ideas or resources to share with colleagues before the Fall, please send them to TOPIX@TeachPsych.org.