{"id":6705,"date":"2017-08-15T05:15:57","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T05:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibpsych.themantic-education.com\/?p=6705"},"modified":"2020-09-01T11:44:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T02:44:36","slug":"lesson-idea-understanding-conclusions-from-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/2017\/08\/15\/lesson-idea-understanding-conclusions-from-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson Idea: Understanding conclusions from studies"},"content":{"rendered":"

For years I underestimated just how complex psychology studies are at first glance for brand new IB Psychology students, so I’ve made a deliberate effort in my new course to have a real gradual introduction into studies. <\/strong>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

For this activity, I like to have students in groups of three to four. They are given<\/span> four studies from the criminology unit (summaries can be found below) and they have 15 minutes to be able to write a <\/span>one sentence<\/i><\/b> conclusion about each study. How they divide the work is completely up to them. They could work through them together as one group, take on each and figure it out and then explain it, it doesn’t matter.<\/span><\/p>\n

What I do tell students is that I will be randomly calling on students for their conclusion from the studies, so they need to make sure that they comprehend each study’s basic conclusion.<\/p>\n

For this activity it might pay to briefly explain that the conclusion from an experiment is how an IV is affecting a DV (I allow some space in my workbook for some scaffolding with this).\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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