It's now a two-year tradition that the annual mid-year meeting of the Div. 5 Executive Committee includes a mini-conference devoted to topics in quantitative and qualitative methods. In 2016, then-President Scott Hofer hosted the first mini-conference at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. This year, on March 24, 2017, in between the Thursday and Saturday Div. 5 business meetings, President Joe Rodgers hosted a one-day mini-conference at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, “Teaching Statistics and Quantitative Methods into the 21st Century.” Funding for travel by presenters, conference food and IT support was obtained from Div. 5 from the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology, and from Peabody College of Education and Human Development of Vanderbilt, which also provided the beautiful Wyatt Center Rotunda and a rousing welcome by Dean Camilla Benbow.
The talks were organized into six sessions:
- Introductory Presentation
- Classroom Teaching Innovations I
- Teaching Strategies and Philosophy
- Teaching Qualitative Methods
- Classroom Teaching Innovations II
- Keynote Addresses
Presenters and their titles are listed below. All presentations – including PowerPoint/pdf slides – can be viewed onlineopens in new window.
The Div. 5 APA program in early August has the same focus, “Teaching Statistics and Quantitative Methods into the 21st Century.” Many of the same presenters, and several additional teaching scholars, will be presenting in the Div. 5 programopens in new window (PDF, 94KB) at the August APA meetings in Washington D.C. Amy Schmidt, the Div. 5 president for 2017-18, plans to continue the mini-conference tradition in spring 2018. Details of that event will be announced sometime in the future.
2017 Conference Presenters and Titles
Introductory Presentation
Joe Rodgers, Vanderbilt University, “Teaching Undergraduate Statistics As Though It Really Matters: Resolving Inconsistencies between Quantitative Methods Teaching at the Undergraduate and Graduate Levelopens in new window ”
Classroom Teaching Innovations I
- Charles S. Reichardt, University of Denver, “Web-based Analysis of Real Data for Teaching Substantive Psychologyopens in new window”
- Pascal R. Deboeck, University of Utah, “Generating ‘Hands-On' Experience in the Classroom: A Reverse Classroom Retrospectiveopens in new window”
- William Revelle, Northwestern University, “Using Simulations to Teach Undergraduate Research Methodsopens in new window”
Teaching Strategies and Philosophy
- Rachel Fouladi, Simon Fraser University, “When Statistical Assumptions are Interesting Outcomes Instead of Nuisancesopens in new window”
- Michael C. Edwards, Arizona State University, “Considering the Relevance of Philosophy of Science to the Teaching of Statisticsopens in new window”
- Jessica K. Flake, Ian J. Davidson, & Jolynn Pek, York University, “Improving Psychological Science through Teaching Quantitative Methodologyopens in new window”
- Eric A. Youngstrom & Mian-Li Ong, UNC Chapel Hill, “Helping Give Away Psychological Science to Improve Teaching Assessment and Statistics: What You Can Use, What You Can Addopens in new window”
Teaching Qualitative Methods
- Scott D. Churchill, University of Dallas, “Reconsidering Questions of Validity and Reliability for Qualitative Research: A Reflection on Lessons Learned from Quantitative Methodologiesopens in new window”
- Linda M. McMullen, University of Saskatchewan, “Teaching Qualitative Inquiry in Undergraduate Psychology Programs: Enhancing Students' Methodological Literacyopens in new window”
- Heidi Levitt, University of Massachusetts Boston, “Teaching Methodological Integrity in Qualitative Methods: Incorporating Functionalist Pedagogyopens in new window”
Classroom Teaching Innovations II
- Shane Hutton, Vanderbilt University, “Using BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) Student Response Systems to Teach Statisticsopens in new window”
- David Rindskopf, CUNY Graduate Center, “The Use of Low- and Medium-Tech Instead of High-Tech in Teaching Statisticsopens in new window”
- Robert Terry, University of Oklahoma, “The Eyes have it: Emphasizing Data Visualization When Teaching Students Meeting a Quantitative Literacy Requirementopens in new window”
Keynote Addresses
- Stephen G. West, Arizona State University, “Instruction in Causal Inference/Research Methods: The Forgotten Stepchild of Quantitative Research Methods in Psychologyopens in new window”
- Leona S. Aiken, Arizona State University, “Not the ‘What' of Quantitative Training but the ‘Who'opens in new window”