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Apply to have your study listed for 1st year students' consideration

Please read all the relevant information
BEFORE FILLING OUT THE FORM!

Information you need to provide to participants

Research participation point (RPP) system

Multiple-choice questiionnaire (MCQ) for participants

Research participation labs (RPLs)

General Comments

Advantages of this program

The form!

Information you need to provide to participants

You will need to give your participants a research participation lab (RPL) Information Sheet (not the information sheet required by the HREC) at some stage after their participation in your study. This sheet needs to be attached with this application. This is to be no more than two pages. Students are to receive this information sheet prior to their multiple choice assessment (see below) based on your study as soon as possible after they complete your study.

Research participation point (RPP) system

Students now need to have two research participation points (RPP) to complete the research participation lab (RPL) requirements. This means that you need to specify in the form above how many RPP your study is worth. Generally if your study takes 1 hour or more to complete then you should specify 2 RPP but if it is less than 1 hour then you should specify 1 RPP.

Multiple-choice questionnaire (MCQ) for participants

Attach a set of 10 multiple-choice questions concerning conceptual and methodological points of the study. Each question is to have four alternative responses. The number of questions remains the same for 1 and 2 RPP studies. These questions must reflect a clear extrapolation from the information gained via participation and the RPL Information Sheet. These questions may be subject to review by the first year co-ordinator to ensure a common level of difficulty. Keep records of student marks on the MCQ and send electronic copies of these to the first year co-ordinator WITHIN 7 DAYS in an alphabetised list! You need to provide the marks in an Excel spreadsheet or a table in MS Word with columns for surname, first name, student id, date of completion, and mark out of 10.

    Checklist for a MCQ:
    • 10 questions.
    • 4 answers options for each question.
    • M ake sure that there is a line towards the top for students to put their name and students number.
    • Please put your name and the title of your study towards the top of the MCQ.
    • Please put the year the study is run towards the top.
    • Please make it clear where students can return the MCQ to you (please do not ask the students to return the MCQ to the superviosor without the supervisor's permission).

Please send the multiple choice questions and answers to the first year co-ordinator before your study is listed.

Research participation labs (RPLs)

It is up to the students to contact the researcher in whose study they wish to participate in. Each student is required to participate in one study, or to gain 2 RPPs or to write an assignment on Issues in Empirical Design (outlined in the students' Assignment & Laboratory Booklet). The researcher will need to organise study participation with the student (e.g., questionnaires by mail or Web site, experimental studies by on-site or Web site). Immediately after participation researchers are to send/give students their RPL Information Sheet plus the multiple-choice questions. Students then have two weeks to submit their answers to the multiple-choice questions back to the researcher (e.g., hard-copy, email or Web site). Please make sure that students are aware of this requirement. The reason for take-home type of assessment is due to the practical impossibility of on-site assessment in the case of most external students. If answers are not forthcoming within two weeks then the student automatically forfeits that study for meeting unit requirements.

Make sure that students do not submit their multiple-choice questions with any research material (e.g., questionnaires) if anonymity is to be retained according to your ethics approval, a sealed envelope containing students' multiple-choice questions and submitted with other research material might be acceptable by the ethics committee but you would have to get an 'ok' from the ethics committee first.

All marks have to be sent to the first year co-ordinator ASAP; instructions in the form above.

Any complaints or concerns about any of the research participation laboratories should be made, in the first instance, to the co-ordinator of first year. If complaints are not resolved to the satisfaction of the student, they are then to contact the Head of School. Complaints can also be made to UNE's Human Research Ethics Committee. But note that in terms of the ethics committee, a complaint would constitute feedback on a decision they had already made in terms of granting approval for each study.

General Comments

Researchers have to meet these obligations to the satisfaction of the first year co-ordinator if they are to be part of this scheme. Once involved, they must then notify the co-ordinator if they plan to withdraw their study, so that withdrawal can be undertaken in an appropriate manner. The primary benefits are that students that opt to participate in studies derive a more intimate introduction to research culture, on top of their more general introduction to psychology as an empirical science through their set labs, while researchers gain participants for their studies

Advantages of this program

A survey of other psychology departments across Australia discovered a fairly even three-way split between no research participation, incentive participation, and obligatory participation. So why should we favour this option of voluntary participation?

  • In an otherwise tightly structured 1st year program, this learning flexibility enables students to attain their learning objectives in a way that favours their learning style (i.e., learn about research via actual participation or writing an assignment).
  • It is preferable to incentive-based schemes, as it does not confound marks awarded for academic performance with those awarded for pure research participation.
  • An obligatory participation may also be considered in the future. Why should we not force students to participate in research projects, whilst at the same time requiring students to fulfil all requirements of the units in which they are enrolled, including set lab work. Is there any difference between a lab run in Lab 1 (set lab), and a lab run by individual members of staff (research studies), providing that the latter meets the same educational standards as the former?

To see current projects on offer to students you need to login to the 101 or 102 LMS site at https://login.une.edu.au/index.jsp for a guest account contact the first year co-ordinator

Information here in the orange box is only for processing purposes

Your name:

Your email address:

Your contact phone number(s):

Format of research exercise:
Experimental
Quasi-Experimental
Questionnaire (paper & pencil)
Questionnaire (online)

Location of study:
Residential school venues
Psychology venues
Home (e.g., mail-out and online)
Field setting
Other. Please specify

Please tick to acknowledge that:
I have read all the instructions below and I will be submitting a multiple choice questionnaire (and answers) and a research participation information sheet (normally two A4 pages or less), separately to the first year co-ordinator ASAP. Please note that if you fill in this form without this information your project will be "On hold" until you have submitted the questionnaire and information sheet.

and that:
I will keep record of student marks on the multiple choice questionnaires and send electronic copies of these to the first year co-ordinator WITHIN 7 DAYS in an alphabetised list! You need to provide the marks in an Excel spreadsheet or a table in MS Word with columns for surname, first name, student id, date of completion, and mark out of 10 - thank you.

Please note that the information you make available below, items 1 to 10 inclusive,
will all be made available to students on a separate Web page.

1. Do participants need to be able to get to UNE to participate in this study (on campus vs. off campus type study): Yes No

2. Participants should be: Male and Female Female only Male only
3. Other participant criteria (e.g., smoker)

4. Number of participants required

5. Research participation points (RPPs) (Please specify 1 or 2 only)

6. Contacts, how can students enquire about and register for your study.
Please provide more than one option if possible.
(Please provide only contact details that you are comfortable with giving out).

Phone number(s):

Email(s):

Postal address:

 

7. Name of researcher followed by the name of supervisor if student
(e.g., Iam Student under the supervision of Dr U. Academic).

8. Your position (Please tick one)
Academic Staff Postgraduate Researcher Fourth Year Student
Other. Please specify

9. UNE ethics clearance (studies will not be listed without a valid HREC number)
(HREC approval number and expire date, e.g., HEO1/009 - valid until 16 Dec 08)

10. Project title (Less than 15 words, please)

11. Project aims (One paragraph summary)

12. Research methodology (What will participants have to do? Please note again that these information WILL be made available to students)

13. Any other research related comments for participants

Please note that these information get submitted to the first year co-ordinator for processing, once you've clicked the SUBMIT button below, the co-ordinator will then made the study available to the first year students via the first year LMS site.


 

Please remember to email the:
(1) multiple choice questionnaire plus answers and
(2) RPL Information Sheet
to the first year co-ordinator