The Use of a Digital Pedagogical Tool to Support Writing Instruction in the Social Sciences

2020 ◽  
pp. 009862832097990
Author(s):  
Teresa M. Ober
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Writing Instruction ◽  
Treatment Control ◽  
Digital Tool ◽  
Pedagogical Tool ◽  
The Social ◽  
Undergraduate Psychology ◽  
Psychology Course ◽  
Support Students ◽  
Word Document

This study describes the pedagogical use of an online digital tool designed to support students’ writing of research reports. The tool, Manuscript Builder, provides a structure and a set of prompts to support students’ writing. Participants included students enrolled in an undergraduate psychology course ( N = 22) who were randomly assigned to one of three conditions (Manuscript Builder, word document outline, and no-treatment control) across three different times throughout one semester. Results suggest the use of Manuscript Builder was associated with higher quality written reports compared with not using an outline and using a word document outline, most notably at Time 3. Further research may improve the use of supplemental resources such as Manuscript Builder for written instruction, particularly in the planning and revising stages.

When Natural Experiments Are Neither Natural nor Experiments

2012 ◽  
Vol 106 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
JASJEET S. SEKHON ◽  
ROCÍO TITIUNIK
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Unbiased Estimate ◽  
Causal Effect ◽  
Natural Experiments ◽  
Treatment Control ◽  
Causal Inferences ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Alternative Research ◽  
Conceptual Difficulties

Natural experiments help to overcome some of the obstacles researchers face when making causal inferences in the social sciences. However, even when natural interventions are randomly assigned, some of the treatment–control comparisons made available by natural experiments may not be valid. We offer a framework for clarifying the issues involved, which are subtle and often overlooked. We illustrate our framework by examining four different natural experiments used in the literature. In each case, random assignment of the intervention is not sufficient to provide an unbiased estimate of the causal effect. Additional assumptions are required that are problematic. For some examples, we propose alternative research designs that avoid these conceptual difficulties.

scholarly journals KECEMASAN STATISTIK DITINJAU DARI JENIS KELAMIN

QUALITY ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 140
Author(s):  
Rini Risnawita Suminta ◽  
Fatma Puri Sayekti
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Statistics Anxiety ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
The Social ◽  
Statistics Course ◽  
Islamic Psychology ◽  
Psychology Course

<p><em>The statistics course has always been one of the subjects of anxiety stressors for students who take the social sciences. Most students choose this subject of social sciences in order to avoid statistics or numeracy courses. Nevertheless students who take the social sciences must face a statistical course. This study aims to determine the differences of statistical anxiety in terms of gender. Respondents in this study are 66 students of Islamic Psychology course, Department of Ushuluddin, Sekolah Tinggi Agama Islam Negeri (STAIN) Kediri. The data collection techniques used in this study is a questionnaire in the form of scale. Statistics anxiety is the fear that occurs when a student working on a statistics course includes the collection, processing and interpretation of data. The results showed that there was a statistical anxiety difference between STAIN Kediri male and female students.</em></p>

What Can We Learn From Factorial Surveys About Human Behavior?

Methodology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Knut Petzold ◽  
Tobias Wolbring
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
Actual Behavior ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Factorial Survey ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Intended Behavior ◽  
The Social ◽  
Survey Experiments ◽  
High Level

Abstract. Factorial survey experiments are increasingly used in the social sciences to investigate behavioral intentions. The measurement of self-reported behavioral intentions with factorial survey experiments frequently assumes that the determinants of intended behavior affect actual behavior in a similar way. We critically investigate this fundamental assumption using the misdirected email technique. Student participants of a survey were randomly assigned to a field experiment or a survey experiment. The email informs the recipient about the reception of a scholarship with varying stakes (full-time vs. book) and recipient’s names (German vs. Arabic). In the survey experiment, respondents saw an image of the same email. This validation design ensured a high level of correspondence between units, settings, and treatments across both studies. Results reveal that while the frequencies of self-reported intentions and actual behavior deviate, treatments show similar relative effects. Hence, although further research on this topic is needed, this study suggests that determinants of behavior might be inferred from behavioral intentions measured with survey experiments.

Postpositivist Philosophy of the Social Sciences

1984 ◽  
Vol 29 (9) ◽  
pp. 717-718
Author(s):  
Georgia Warnke
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
The Social
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