Research Methods in Cognitive Development and Education
PSYC 206
Fall 2010
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| Course Cluster: Service-Learning |
This course introduces students to translational research in psychology: research that draws on psychological science to inform practice. The course is built around a central case study, the acquisition of numerical concepts in deaf children. We will cover existing research on cognitive and language development, deaf education, and teaching strategies as a means to learn about research methods and practices in these areas.
The service-learning component of the course, in which students will spend two hours per week in a preschool, provides a hands-on opportunity to interact with preschool children and learn firsthand about their learning environment and styles. Although the service-learning component will generally entail work in hearing preschools, opportunities will be available for observation and volunteering in schools for deaf children.
This year (2010-11), students will complete a final project of creating a single mathematics activity for a deaf preschool, drawing on research and on models of curricular design. (In subsequent years, students will pilot test and refine these activities at an actual school.) |
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Essential Capabilities:
Designing, Creating, and Realizing, Logical Reasoning
Designing: Students will design materials for a single mathematics activity that draws on research on cognition and language and on models of deaf education and curriculum development.
Logical Reasoning: Student will read and critique primary source research articles and learn basic tenets of experimental logic.
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| Credit: 1.25 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS PSYC |
| Course Format: Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: PSYC101 OR PSYC105 OR PSYC110 |
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Fulfills a Major Requirement for: (CIVI-MN)(EDST-MN)(EDST)(PSYC)(STS) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Primary source articles and book chapters on cognitive development and education by authors such as (numerical cognition & development) Dehaene, Carey, Siegler, (deaf cognition) Marschark, (deaf development & education) Nunes, (research-based curriculum design in mathematics) Case, Griffiths, (principles of curriculum design) Bruner.
Cozby, P. (2009). Methods in Behavioral Research, Tenth Edition. McGraw Hill.
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Examinations and Assignments:
Ten short assignments and/or quizzes; Final project to design an empirically-motivated math activity for deaf preschoolers. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Only one course can be taken as non-graded towards the psychology major. |
| Instructor(s): Shusterman,Anna Times: .M.W... 02:40PM-04:00PM; Location: JUDDB6; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: 0 | JR major: 5 | | |
| Seats Available: 1 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 0 | JR non-major: 0 | SO: 10 | FR: X |
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