ICPS

2021 APS Virtual Convention · 2021

Implementing a Utility-Value Intervention in Multiple Sections of an Undergraduate Research Methods Course

Virtual · May 2021

Posters · Teaching Institute

  • Paul Price
    California State University, Fresno
  • Kiana Crisosto
    California State University, Fresno
  • Anthony Carvalho
    California State University, Fresno
  • Constance Jones
    California State University, Fresno
  • Meaghan McCready
    California State University, Fresno
  • Amber Shaver
    California State University, Fresno
  • Andrea Wiemann
    California State University, Fresno

Abstract

We show how we successfully implemented a utility-value intervention across several sections of an online research methods course at Fresno State. Challenges included creating an intervention that was consistent with best practices, worked across multiple sections, and successfully encouraged students to related research methods concepts to their own lives.