Psychology 2820E-200 Research Methods and Statistical Analysis in Psychology
Revised Jan 19, 2022
WESTERN UNIVERSITY
LONDON CANADA
Department of Psychology
2021 - 2022
Psychology 2820E Section 200
Research Methods and Statistical Analysis in Psychology
- CALENDAR DESCRIPTION
An introduction to the design, conduct, and statistical analyses of psychological research. The intent is to provide students with knowledge of how to implement and evaluate research in both laboratory and applied settings. Design and statistical analysis will be taught in the context of specific studies and data sets from correlational, experimental, quasi-experimental and qualitative research. Written research projects will be required.
Antirequisite(s): Biology 2244A/B, Economics 2122A/B, Economics 2222A/B, Geography 2210A/B, Health Sciences 3801A/B, MOS 2242A/B, Psychology 2800E, Psychology 2810, Psychology 2830A/B, Psychology 2840F/G, Psychology 2850A/B, Psychology 2851A/B, Psychology 2855F/G, Psychology 2856F/G, Social Work 2207A/B, Sociology 2205A/B, Statistical Sciences 2035, Statistical Sciences 2141A/B, Statistical Sciences 2143A/B, Statistical Sciences 2244A/B, Statistical Sciences 2858A/B.
Antirequisites are courses that overlap sufficiently in content that only one can be taken for credit. If you take a course that is an antirequisite to a course previously taken, you will lose credit for the earlier course, regardless of the grade achieved in the most recent course.
Prerequisite(s): One full course in mathematics plus a mark of at least 60% in 1.0 credits of Psychology at the 1000 level. To fulfill the mathematics requirement, you must complete a full course equivalent by taking 1.0 courses from among the following courses: Applied Mathematics 1201A/B, Applied Mathematics 1413, Mathematics 0110A/B, Mathematics 1120A/B, Mathematics 1225A/B, Mathematics 1228A/B, Mathematics 1229A/B, Mathematics 1600A/B, Calculus 1000A/B, Calculus 1301A/B, Calculus 1500A/B, Calculus 1501A/B, Statistical Sciences 1024A/B. If Mathematics 0110A/B is selected, then either Statistical Sciences 1024A/B or Mathematics 1228A/B must be taken. The combination of Mathematics 1228A/B and Statistical Sciences 1024A/B is strongly recommended
2 lecture hours;2 laboratory/tutorial hours
Course Weight: 1.00
Unless you have either the prerequisites for this course or written special permission from your Dean to enrol in it, you may be removed from this course and it will be deleted from your record. This decision may not be appealed. You will receive no adjustment to your fees in the event that you are dropped from a course for failing to have the necessary prerequisites.
2.0 COURSE INFORMATION
Instructor: Dr. Riley Hinson
Office and Phone Number: 6334 SSC 519-661-2111 ext 84649
Office Hours: By appointment and via Zoom
Email: hinson@uwo.ca
Time and Location of Classes:
Lecture time: 2:30-4:30 Thursday. Lectures will be asynchronous. I will give and record a lecture at the scheduled lecture time. The recording will be posted to OWL. Students may view the lecture any time.
Labs/Tutorials will be in person. The lab/tutorials time are below. Attendance is required.
002 Monday 10:30-12:30
003 Wednesday 3:30-5:30
004 Tuesday 11:30-1:30
005 Monday 3:30-5:30
007 Tuesday 2:30-4:30
008 Wednesday 10:30-12:30
009 Wednesday 11:30-1:30
Website address:
There is an OWL site for this course. In order to enter this web site you must enter your password and id, which should be your email name and student number. Important course information will be posted at the website, and this is the main method of communicating information to students. It is the student’s responsibility to check the web site regularly for important course information. If you miss a course component (test, make up test, etc) when the information for that course component has been posted on the web site, then you will receive a grade of zero (0) on that course component.
Students who are in emotional/mental distress should refer to Health and Wellness @Western https://www.uwo.ca/health/ for a complete list of options about how to obtain help.
Please contact the course instructor if you require material in an alternate format or if you require any other arrangements to make this course more accessible to you. You may also wish to contact Student Accessibility Services (formerly known as Services for Students with Disabilities) at 519-661-2147.
3.0 TEXTBOOK
There is a set of Power Point slides which you can view via Voice Thread on OWL. These PP slides provide an overview of the material, but are not as detailed as the Text Notes described below. The PP slides are based on the Text Notes, and cover the material but do not provide a detailed walk-through of the procedures. You may feel comfortable with only having the PP slides to view. Or you may feel like you wish to purchase the complete Text Notes. That is your decision as a student, but you will be responsible for everything that is in the Text Notes. I have put some websites at the end of each PP chapter which you may find useful. Note: The websites are only there to provide additional discussion of the topic in the PP slides and Text Notes. You are not responsible for any new information in the websites (unless it is in the Text Notes or PP slides you are not responsible for it). Also note that some of the websites present formulas or material in different formats than the PP slides or Text notes. It is the information in the PP slides and Text Notes which is considered the correct version of any information.
The Text Notes are available from the Book Store. You may purchase an electronic version and/or a printed version. Instructions are on the Book Store site for this course. You are not required to purchase the Text Notes. It is your decision as to whether you feel you need them.
You will need a calculator for this course. The calculator should have a “stats mode”. You should choose a calculator that is easy to use, as compared to one that has a lot of functions not needed for this course. Most calculators sufficient for this course cost about $15-35. You should have your calculator for all class periods as you will need it. The best calculator for this course is probably a Sharp EL (something in the 531 model---the older 520 model is fine also).
4.0 COURSE OBJECTIVES & LEARNING OUTCOMES
In this course, we will discuss several of the methodologies that may be used to conduct research in Psychology—these include descriptive, correlational, experimental, and quasi-experimental methodologies. In the lecture component of the course, we will discuss topics that researchers must consider whenever they design and implement any research project. These topics include generating research ideas, ethical aspects of the research project, issues of validity and reliability, and how to form the sample(s) of participants to be used in the research. Following these general considerations in conducting research, we will consider how each of these issues is involved in individual research designs and describe, with the aid of specific examples, how each of the research designs would be implemented. In order to introduce students to statistical analyses, typical methods of analyzing data collected in each of the individual research designs will be presented during the discussion of each design.
The lab component is designed to give the student first-hand experience in the steps involved in designing and conducting a research project. Labs will involve generating research ideas, searching literature data bases, writing a literature review, conducting an individual research project, and writing a journal style paper.
Student Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course the successful student should be able to
- Memorize (M), describe(D) and apply (A) main concepts and principles of research design, methodology and statistical analysis as occurs in psychological research
- Locate, read, and write about scholarly research that pertains to a research hypothesis
- Formulate and test a research hypothesis by writing about it in a research project
- Conduct research involving recruiting participants and taking measurements
- Apply skills required to conduct research in psychology
- Identify and conduct an appropriate methodology and statistical procedure that should be used to address a specific research question
- Give an oral presentation of research ideas and how to scientifically evaluate research ideas
- Identify, describe, and correct ethical issues in the conduct of research
- Identify and distinguish well conducted research whether presented in scientific publications or popular press
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5.0 EVALUATION
Quizzes: 20 marks toward the course grade will be based on quizzes. You should expect a quiz every week. Twenty-two quizzes are planned, and the grades from the best 20 will be used. Each counted quiz is thus 1 course mark. The quizzes will be administered via the OWL Tests and Quizzes platform. There will be a quiz every week, unless otherwise announced on OWL. The weekly quizzes will involve MC questions, but some of the questions will requireme calculations. You will need to have a calculator and the statistical tables (available on OWL) for the quizzes. The quizzes will be open-book. You may use your notes, the PP slides, the Text Notes, the formula sheets, or you can visit websites. However, YOU MUST DO THE QUIZ BY YOURSELF. YOU CANNOT HAVE THE ASSISTANCE OF ANOTHER PERSON OR PERSONS. HAVING SOMEONE ELSE HELP YOU, OR ACTUALLY TAKE THE QUIZZES, IS A SERIOUS ACADEMIC OFFENSE.
- The weekly quiz will normally be available during a 24 hour period beginning at 23:00 hours (London, Ontario time) on the Monday following a given Thursday lecture. The 24 hour period will thus end at 23:00 hours on the next day, i.e., Tuesday (there may be exceptions due to Academic Calendar considerations and these will be posted on OWL at that time). You may take the quiz any time during that period. The quiz is time-limited. Once you access the quiz the time limit starts, and when the time-limit has run out you will no longer be able to access the quiz. You cannot start and stop, once you start, the clock runs until the time limit is met. Most quizzes will be 20 minutes. I will choose a number of MC questions that you should be able to answer in the time limit if you know the material. If you do not know the material you will probably not have time to try to find it in the PP slides or Text Notes or on some website. Even though the quizzes are open-book you should treat them like a typical test in the sense that you need to the know the material without having to look it up (again you can try to find it in the notes, but you will probably not finish if you do this). The quizzes are formatted such that once you have submitted an answer to a question, you cannot go back to that question. You should have printed versions of statistical tables, formula sheets, notes, etc. because you will not have time to go back-and-forth between screens to find material. Each quiz will cover the material in the immediately preceding Thursday lecture (again there may be exception due to Academic Calendar considerations but these will be posted on OWL). Each MC question will be worth 1 point even though some may be very short and quick, and others may take longer.
There will be a total of 22 weekly quizzes (This is the planned number. There will not be more than this, but if it turns out there are fewer, the quiz grade will be based on the actual number of quizzes given). Your grade for the quizzes will be the % of the total marks you earn on the quizzes.
If you do not take a quiz, and are not excused either via Academic Counselling or SRA, you will get a 0 (zero). These unexcused quiz grades of 0 will be used in the calculation of your quiz average. However, every student will have their lowest 2 quizzes dropped. (Take note, if you do not write a quiz and are not excused, it will be recorded as a zero and that will be one of the two you can drop). Even if we do not write 22 quizzes you will still be allowed to drop the lowest two.
There are no make ups of quizzes. If you are excused from taking a quiz, the marks assigned to that quiz will be added to either the December exam (excused quizzes during first term) or to the April exam (excused quizzes during second term).
December test: 20 marks toward the course grade will be based on this test. It will cover any material from the beginning of classes. The format will be mixed and may involve any or all of the following: MC, short and long essay, statistical calculational questions. If you are excused from the scheduled December test, a make up will be given but the format of the make up may be different from the original test. The make up may not include any MC questions---it may be entirely either essay or statistical calculation questions, or some combination of these. If you are excused from writing the make up, the December exam marks will be added to the Final Exam marks.
- April test: 30 marks toward the course grade will be based on this test. It will cover any material from the beginning of classes. The format will be mixed and may involve any or all of the following: MC, short and long essay, statistical calculational questions. If you are excused from this test a make up will be given but the format of the make up may be different from the original test. The make up may not include any MC questions---it may be entirely either essay or statistical calculation questions, or some combination of these. You will have to write a make up of the April test if you are excused from writing the scheduled test. If we are permitted to have in-person tests, this test will be given in person. If we are not permitted to have in-person tests, this test will be administered via OWL tests and quizzes, and will be proctored.
- “Research project” via labs: 30 marks toward the course grade will be based on this project. In other years students would have designed and conducted an actual research project of their own conception. This year you will be doing a research project that will involve everything but there will not be actual data collection from real people. You will be given instructions on how to find or create the data set for you project. More information on this aspect of the course will be provided in the labs. The project will be completed in stages. You will receive feedback on the stages and they will be graded as follows:
Annotated Bibliography 2 Marks
Introduction 4 Marks
Methods and Results 4 Marks
Completed Final Project 20 Marks
If you fail to submit a project component by the specified due day/time, a late penalty of 20% loss of marks for each 24 hours, or any part thereof, will apply. If you are excused from meeting the due day/time by Academic counselling, then an alternative due day/time will be scheduled. If you use an SRA the due day/time will be 24 hours after the end time of the SRA. You will be required to submit all components, and marks from the components cannot be moved to later components.
Computer-marked multiple-choice tests and/or exams may be subject to submission for similarity review by software that will check for unusual coincidences in answer patterns that may indicate cheating.
5.1 POLICY ON MISSING COURSEWORK
If you do not take a quiz, and are not excused either via Academic Counselling or SRA, you will get a 0 (zero).
If you are excused from taking a quiz, the marks assigned to that quiz will be added to either the December exam (excused quizzes during first term) or to the April exam (excused quizzes during second term).
If you are excused from the scheduled December test, a make up will be given but the format of the make may be different from the original test. The make up may not include any MC questions---it may be entirely either essay or statistical calculation questions, or some combination of these. If you are excused from writing the make up, the December exam marks will be added to the Final Exam marks.
If you are excused from the scheduled April test a make up will be given but the format of the make may be different from the original test. The make up may not include any MC questions---it may be entirely either essay or statistical calculation questions, or some combination of these. You will have to write a make up of the April test if you are excused from writing the scheduled test.
If you fail to submit a lab project component by the specified due day/time, a late penalty of 20% loss of marks for each 24 hours, or any part thereof, will apply. If you are excused from meeting the due day/time by Academic counselling, then an alternative due day/time will be scheduled. If you use an SRA. the due day/time will be 24 hours after the end time of the SRA. You will be required to submit all components, and marks from missed components cannot be moved to later components.
PLEASE NOTE: Because this is an essay course, as per Senate Regulations, you must pass the essay component to pass the course. That is, the average mark for your written assignments must be at least 50%.
The expectation for course grades within the Psychology Department is that they will be distributed around the following averages:
70% 1000-level to 2099-level courses
72% 2100-2999-level courses
75% 3000-level courses
80% 4000-level courses
The Psychology Department follows Western’s grading guidelines, which are as follows (see: http://www.uwo.ca/univsec/pdf/academic_policies/general/grades_undergrad.pdf)
A+ 90-100 One could scarcely expect better from a student at this level
A 80-89 Superior work that is clearly above average
B 70-79 Good work, meeting all requirements, and eminently satisfactory
C 60-69 Competent work, meeting requirements
D 50-59 Fair work, minimally acceptable
F below 50 Fail
Note that in the event that course grades are significantly higher or lower than these averages, instructors may be required to make adjustments to course grades. Such adjustment might include the normalization of one or more course components and/or the re-weighting of various course components.
Policy on Grade Rounding: Please note that although course grades within the Psychology Department are rounded to the nearest whole number, no further grade rounding will be done. No additional assignments will be offered to enhance a final grade; nor will requests to change a grade because it is needed for a future program be considered. To maximize your grade, do your best on each and every assessment within the course.
6.0 ASSESSMENT/EVALUATION SCHEDULE
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7.0 CLASS SCHEDULE
Copyright Statement: Lectures and course materials, including power point presentations, outlines, and similar materials, are protected by copyright. You may take notes and make copies of course materials for your own educational use. You may not record lectures, reproduce (or allow others to reproduce), post or distribute lecture notes, and other course materials publicly and/or for commercial purposes without the instructor’s written consent.
This is the tentative lecture schedule. It is subject to change. The exact coverage of each quiz will be posted to Owl after each Thursday lecture.
September 9—Introduction to Class and “Why the scientific method in psychological research?”
There will be Quiz 1 S13/14 on this material
September 16—"What do you want to find out from your study?” and “Using visual displays and descriptive statistics as a way of describing data”
There will be Quiz 2 S20/21 on this material
September 23—“Using visual displays and descriptive statistics as a way of describing data”
There will be Quiz 3 S27/28 on this material
September 30— “Correlation: Describing the relationship between variables” and “Causation”
There will be Quiz 4 O4/5 on this material
October 7—“Who is going to be in your study and how are you going to recruit them?”
There will be Quiz 5 O12/13 on this material. Note this is a Tuesday/Wednesday time period since Monday Oct. 11 is a holiday.
October 14—“Ethical considerations”
There will be Quiz 6 O18/19 on this material
The Annotated Bibliography component of the lab is due by 23:00 hours on October 15. It should be submitted as a Word or PDF document to the Assignment portal on OWL.
October 21—“Psychological measures”
There will be Quiz 7 O25/26 on this material
October 28—“Internal and external validity”
There will not be quiz N8/9 since it is just after Reading Week. This material will be on Quiz 8 on N15/16
November 4—No Class due to Fall Reading Week
November 11—“Qualitative research” and “Observational methodology”
There will be Quiz 8 N15/16 on this material and the material from the Oct. 28 lecture.
November 18—“Single participant studies” and “Cross sectional, longitudinal, and panel designs”
There will be Quiz 9 N22/23 on this material
The Introduction component of the lab is due by 23:00 hours, November 19. YOU MUST SUBMIT A COPY (WORD OR PDF) TO THE TURNITIN ASSIGNMENT ON OWL. IF A COPY IS NOT SUBMITTED TO TURNITIN BY THAT DUE DAY/TIME THE INTRODUCTION WILL BE CONSIDERED LATE AND THE LATE PENALTY POLICY WILL BE ENFORCED. THIS DUE DATE WILL NOT BE CHANGED DUE TO THE REQUIREMENT RELATING TO HAVING A CERTAIN % OF YOUR GRADE BY NOVMEBER 26 IN FULL YEAR COURSES.
November 25—“Using your data: Providing descriptions and testing hypothesis”
There will be Quiz 10 N29/30 on this material
December 2—"Using your data: Providing descriptions and testing hypothesis” continued
There will be Quiz 11 D6/7 on this material
THERE WILL BE A TEST DURING THE DECEMBER EXAM PERIOD. IT WILL BE EXPLICITLY CUMULATIVE COVERING ALL MATERIAL IN THE FIRST TERM. IT WILL BE 3 HOURS LONG. THE DATE, TIME AND FORM OF DELIVERY WILL BE AVAILABLE IN LATE NOVEMBER.
January 13—“Single sample mean: Hypothesis testing, CI, effect size” and “Single sample binomial proportion: Hypothesis testing, CI, effect size”
There will be Quiz 12 J10/11 on this material
January 20—“Single sample correlation coefficient” and “Regression analysis”
There will be Quiz 13 J17/18 on this material
January 27—“Two sample difference in the means (Independent)
There will be Quiz 14 J24/25 on this material
February 3—“Two sample difference in the means (Dependent)
There will be Quiz 15 J31/F1 on this material
February 10—“Two sample difference in proportions” and “Two sample difference in correlations”
There will be Quiz 16 F7/8 on this material
February 17—“Meta analysis ”
There will be Quiz 17 F14/15 on this material
February 24—No Class due to Spring Reading week
March 3—“Introduction to ANOVA”
There will be Quiz 18 F28/M1 on this material. Note that is quiz occurs right after Spring Reading week break.
March 10—“Pairwise comparisons” and “Dependent single factor ANOVA”
There will be Quiz 19 M7/8 on this material
March 17—“Factorial ANOVA”
There will be Quiz 20 M14/15 on this material
March 24—“Factorial ANOVA”
There will be Quiz 21 M21/22 on this material
March 31—“Analysis of 2 dimensional count data”
There will be Quiz 22 M28/29 on this material
April 7—Catch up and review
THE FINAL EXAM WILL BE SCHEDULED BY THE REGISTRAR. IT WILL BE 3 HOURS LONG. IT WILL CUMULATIVE OVER THE YEAR, BUT WITH EMPHASIS ON 2ND TERM.
THE DUE DATE FOR THE FINAL VERSION OF THE ENTIRE LAB PROJECT WILL BE 23:00 HOURS (LONDON, ONTARIO TIME) APRIL 8.
8.0 Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that Western University is located on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, Lūnaapéewak and Attawandaron peoples, on lands connected with the London Township and Sombra Treaties of 1796 and the Dish with One Spoon Covenant Wampum.
With this, we respect the longstanding relationships that Indigenous Nations have to this land, as they are the original caretakers. We acknowledge historical and ongoing injustices that Indigenous Peoples (e.g. First Nations, Métis and Inuit) endure in Canada, and we accept responsibility as a public institution to contribute toward revealing and correcting miseducation, as well as renewing respectful relationships with Indigenous communities through our teaching, research and community service.
9.0 STATEMENT ON ACADEMIC OFFENCES
Students are responsible for understanding the nature and avoiding the occurrence of plagiarism and other scholastic offences. Plagiarism and cheating are considered very serious offences because they undermine the integrity of research and education. Actions constituting a scholastic offence are described at the following link: http://www.uwo.ca/univsec/pdf/academic_policies/appeals/scholastic_discipline_undergrad.pdf
As of Sept. 1, 2009, the Department of Psychology will take the following steps to detect scholastic offences. All multiple-choice tests and exams will be checked for similarities in the pattern of responses using reliable software, and records will be made of student seating locations in all tests and exams. All written assignments will be submitted to TurnItIn, a service designed to detect and deter plagiarism by comparing written material to over 5 billion pages of content located on the Internet or in TurnItIn’s databases. All papers submitted for such checking will be included as source documents in the reference database for the purpose of detecting plagiarism of papers subsequently submitted to the system. Use of the service is subject to the licensing agreement, currently between Western and Turnitin.com (http://www.turnitin.com).
Computer-marked multiple-choice tests and/or exams will be subject to submission for similarity review by software that will check for unusual coincidences in answer patterns that may indicate cheating.
In classes that involve the use of a personal response system (PRS), data collected using the PRS will only be used in a manner consistent to that described in this outline. It is the instructor’s responsibility to make every effort to ensure that data remain confidential. However, students should be aware that as with all forms of electronic communication, privacy is not guaranteed. Your PRS login credentials are for your sole use only. Students attempting to use another student’s credentials to submit data through the PRS may be subject to academic misconduct proceedings.
Possible penalties for a scholastic offence include failure of the assignment/exam, failure of the course, suspension from the University, and expulsion from the University.
10.0 POLICY ON THE USE OF EXAM PROCTORING SOFTWARE
When examinations and tests cannot be given in person (e.g., in courses coded as Distance Studies; in the event of a lockdown order), they may be conducted using either a monitoring platform such as Zoom or a remote proctoring service, such as Proctorio. If Zoom is used for exam invigilation, you will be required to keep your camera on for the entire session, hold up your student card for identification purposes, and share your screen with the invigilator if asked to do so at any time during the exam. The exam session using Zoom will not be recorded.*
If a remote proctoring service is used, the service will require you to provide personal information (including some biometric data). The session will be recorded. The instructor will alert you to the use of this software as close as possible to the start of the term, however, in the event that in-person exams are unexpectedly canceled, you may only be given notice of the use of a proctoring service a short time in advance. More information about remote proctoring is available in the Online Proctoring Guidelines. Please ensure you are familiar with any proctoring service’s technical requirements before the exam. Additional guidance is available at the following link: https://www.uwo.ca/univsec/pdf/onlineproctorguidelines.pdf
* Please note that Zoom servers are located outside Canada. If you would prefer to use only your first name or a nickname to login to Zoom, please provide this information to the instructor in advance of the test or examination. See this link for technical requirements: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us
11.0 POLICY ON ACCOMMODATION FOR ILLNESS OR OTHER ABSENCES
Western’s policy on Accommodation for Medical Illness can be found at:
http://www.westerncalendar.uwo.ca/PolicyPages.cfm?PolicyCategoryID=1&Command=showCategory&SelectedCalendar=Live&ArchiveID=#Page_12
The full policy for consideration for absences can be accessed at: https://www.uwo.ca/univsec/pdf/academic_policies/appeals/Academic_Consideration_for_absences.pdf
If you experience an extenuating circumstance (e.g., illness, injury) sufficiently significant to temporarily make you unable to meet academic requirements, you may request accommodation through the following routes:
- Submitting a Self-Reported Absence form (for circumstances that are expected to resolve within 48 hours);
- For medical absences, submitting a Student Medical Certificate (SMC) signed by a licensed medical or mental health practitioner in order to be eligible for Academic Consideration;
- For non-medical absences, submitting appropriate documentation (e.g., obituary, police report, accident report, court order, etc.) to Academic Counselling in their Faculty of registration in order to be eligible for academic consideration. Students are encouraged to contact their Academic Counselling unit to clarify what documentation is appropriate.
Students must see the Academic Counsellor and submit all required documentation in order to be approved for certain accommodation. The self-reported absence form must be submitted before the exam/coursework deadline in order to be valid. It may NOT be used for absences longer than 48 hours; coursework/tests/exams/etc., worth more than 30% of the final grade; or exams scheduled in the December or April final-exam periods: http://counselling.ssc.uwo.ca/procedures/medical_accommodation.html
Students seeking academic consideration:
- are advised to consider carefully the implications of postponing tests or midterm exams or delaying handing in work;
- are encouraged to make appropriate decisions based on their specific circumstances, recognizing that minor ailments (upset stomach) or upsets (argument with a friend) are not normally an appropriate basis for a self-reported absence;
- must communicate with their instructors no later than 24 hoursafter the end of the period covered by either the self-reported absence or SMC, or immediately upon their return following a documented absence
Students seeking accommodation for religious purposes are advised to contact Academic Counselling at least three weeks prior to the religious event and as soon as possible after the start of the term.
12.0 Contingency Plan for Return to Lockdown: IN-Person & Blended classes
In the event of a COVID-19 resurgence or any other event that necessitates the course delivery moving away from face-to-face interaction, all remaining course content will be delivered entirely online, either synchronously (i.e., at the times indicated in the timetable) or asynchronously (e.g., posted on OWL for students to view at their convenience). The grading scheme will not change. Any remaining assessments will also be conducted online, as determined by the course instructor.
13.0 STATEMENTS CONCERNING ONLINE ETIQUETTE
In courses involving online interactions, the Psychology Department expects students to honour the following rules of etiquette:
- please “arrive” to class on time
- please use your computer and/or laptop if possible (as opposed to a cell phone or tablet)
- please ensure that you are in a private location to protect the confidentiality of discussions in the event that a class discussion deals with sensitive or personal material
- to minimize background noise, kindly mute your microphone for the entire class until you are invited to speak, unless directed otherwise
- In classes larger than 30 participants please turn off your video camera for the entire class unless you are invited to speak
- In classes of 30 students or fewer, where video chat procedures are being used, please be prepared to turn your video camera off at the instructor’s request if the internet connection becomes unstable
- Unless invited by your instructor, do not share your screen in the meeting
The course instructor will act as moderator for the class and will deal with any questions from participants. To participate please consider the following:
- If you wish to speak, use the “raise hand” function and wait for the instructor to acknowledge you before beginning your comment or question.
- Please remember to unmute your microphone and turn on your video camera before speaking.
- Self-identify when speaking.
- Please remember to mute your mic and turn off your video camera after speaking (unless directed otherwise).
General considerations of “netiquette”:
- Keep in mind the different cultural and linguistic backgrounds of the students in the course.
- Be courteous toward the instructor, your colleagues, and authors whose work you are discussing.
- Be respectful of the diversity of viewpoints that you will encounter in the class and in your readings. The exchange of diverse ideas and opinions is part of the scholarly environment. “Flaming” is never appropriate.
- Be professional and scholarly in all online postings. Use proper grammar and spelling. Cite the ideas of others appropriately.
Note that disruptive behaviour of any type during online classes, including inappropriate use of the chat function, is unacceptable. Students found guilty of Zoom-bombing a class or of other serious online offenses may be subject to disciplinary measures under the Code of Student Conduct.
14.0 OTHER INFORMATION
Office of the Registrar: http://registrar.uwo.ca
Student Development Services: www.sdc.uwo.ca
Please see the Psychology Undergraduate web site for information on the following:
http://psychology.uwo.ca/undergraduate/student_responsibilities/index.html
- Policy on Cheating and Academic Misconduct
- Procedures for Appealing Academic Evaluations
- Policy on Attendance
- Policy Regarding Makeup Exams and Extensions of Deadlines
- Policy for Assignments
- Short Absences
- Extended Absences
- Documentation
- Academic Concerns
- 2021-2022 Calendar References
If you wish to appeal a grade, please read the policy documentation at: https://www.uwo.ca/univsec/pdf/academic_policies/appeals/appealsundergrad.pdf
Please first contact the course instructor. If your issue is not resolved, you may make your appeal to the Undergraduate Chair in Psychology (psyugrd@uwo.ca).
Copyright Statement: Lectures and course materials, including power point presentations, outlines, videos and similar materials, are protected by copyright. You may take notes and make copies of course materials for your own educational use. You may not record lectures, reproduce (or allow others to reproduce), post or distribute any course materials publicly and/or for commercial purposes without the instructor’s written consent.
Policy on the Recording of Synchronous Sessions: Some or all of the remote learning sessions for this course (if scheduled) may be recorded. The data captured during these recordings may include your image, voice recordings, chat logs and personal identifiers (name displayed on the screen). The recordings will be used for educational purposes related to this course, including evaluations. The recordings may be disclosed to other individuals participating in the course for their private or group study purposes. Please contact the instructor if you have any concerns related to session recordings. Participants in this course are not permitted to privately record the sessions, except where recording is an approved accommodation, or the student has the prior written permission of the instructor.
