PSI Tutor:Mentor

Tutoring for Success!

Study Club — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:06:15 +0000

In a traditional classroom, one lecturer/TA is expected to teach up to thirty students. As much as the lecturer/TA might try to spend time with each individual student, it often simply isn’t practical to do so on a daily basis. Even if a lecturer/TA offers to help students and answer questions [...]

Edublogs~ Student blog platforms to enhance learning

Study Club — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:27:21 +0000

I have recently signed up with edublogs, and am confident that many engaging conversations and networks will develop there. The goal will be to direct some traffic discourse occurring here. A vibrant learning community streaming through several portals across the web and between bloggers with a psych theme is certain to be an adventure. Check [...]

Social Oomph as a learning community tool

Study Club — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:17:04 +0000

I have been exploring Social Oomph this morning for PSI Tutor:Mentor. And I am impressed at its level of service for a free account, and I was given 168 hour trial upgrade. From this month on I intend to utilise Twitter more! For you the student, Social Oomph can provide a way to network with like [...]

Eyewitness DVD Competition

Study Club — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:20:10 +0000

Open University in the UK is hosting a comp where you, the student, can win a DVD about Eyewitness behaviour, memory and validity of testimony. There is also a free download of a PowerPoint presentation with memory and recall activities~ how fun and useful for a student of psychology. How valid do you think Eyewitness testimony is?

Too many Variables in Your 4th Year Research Project?

Study Club — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:03:55 +0000

It is important to keep your 4th year psychology project manageable~ you only have about 9 months to complete the entire project! Creating an Octopus of a research project means that you will be distracted by trying to juggle too many things at once in the short span of time that you have. This time does [...]

7 Time and Money Saving Reference Tips

Study Club — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 03:19:28 +0000

7 simple ways to Reference better: put in alphabetical order when citing in-text check your dates when citing check your spelling when citing add to your Reference list each time you cite in-text when you directly quote or heavily paraphrase you must note the page number use same font size for all references in your reference list separate references with double space What [...]

PASW v. 19 (SPSS) Trial Download

Study Club — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 23:03:42 +0000

Analysis of the data you have collected takes time.It is not just about plugging in numbers~ analysis requires thought about why variable distributions look as they do, and what this means in terms of the literature and the goals of the study. You, the student need to be able to run analyses at home, or [...]

Stratify the sample~ What the..?

Study Club — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:32:23 +0000

“Stratify the sample” is a recruitment process, where a pre-determined amount of people for groups or sub-groups: e.g., I need 30 females and 30 males I need 15 participants from each of these postcodes [...]

What’s normal…?

Study Club — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:14:39 +0000

Is this a normal curve? Why or why not? Share in a comment below…

Artha~ The holy grail of thesauri

Study Club — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 02:19:31 +0000

What a great find! A friend forwarded this resource to me and now I want to share it with you. Essay and thesis writing can be a dry exercise at times ~:-) so spice up and individualise your next assignment with the thesaurus application, Artha. The application works offline~ excellent! And can be downloaded for Microsoft [...]