Syllabus - Psychology and Child Development

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Psyc 4790 Hesse Analyzing and Changing Human Behavior Syllabus 12:10 - 12:25 Short class break o Students may leave for snack or restroom needs or stay in the classroom. o The class instructor will be available for brief individual consultations. 12:25 - 1:25 Course content presentation and discussion o Brief oral report of the group’s products from each group’s reporter. o Lecture on new material with class participation (clicker) points. (variable points) 1:25 - 1:30 Daily wrap-up o Reminders of what is required for the next class meeting. o 1:30 -- Class dismissed STUDENT ASSESSMENT: Student progress will be assessed each class period with questions over assigned readings and with graded products from activities completed in and outside of class. The questions related to the reading assessments will be multiple choice but other assessments will involve short written products. Points will be summed to determine the course grade. Please refer to the course calendar for the schedule of reading assignments and homework assignments. There usually will be 20 points available for each class period. Students must purchase a student response pad and register it online (www.einstruction.com ) using the class key on the registration instructions (see last page of this syllabus). Bring your response pad to each class to earn class related grade points. Your response pad must be the Gen2 or Pulse from eInstruction and have a small LCD screen. Other types of “clickers” will not work in this class. COURSE POLICIES GRADE: The course grade is derived from the percent of points earned during the semester as follows (rounded to the nearest whole percentage point): A =90%-100% B =80%-89% C =70%-79% D =60%-69% A grade report will be available on the class web site. It will show the student's cumulative points (accessed with the last 5 digits of the student's ID number), the total points after each class, the student's average point earnings per class and the average needed from the remaining classes to get a grade of A , B or C. Summary graphs of class grade distributions will also be provided once per week. REGRADE POLICY: Students may ask for clarification and/or regrading of an assessment activity if they feel an error was made or that the points received were not representative of the quality of the product they submitted for evaluation. A regrade request involves the following: 1. the reasons why the assessment should be scored differently and 2. references to other materials to support these reasons. 3. the regrade request must be written (an oral elaboration is acceptable if the main points are noted in writing) and turned in with the assessment to be regraded. EXTRA CREDIT: Students can earn a total of 6 extra credit points in this class for the following activities: 1) Participate in a research project being conducted by either a graduate or an undergraduate student who has their project registered with the online (http://csustan.sona-systems.com) Psychology Department research participant pool. Each credit earned in an experiment is worth 1 extra credit points. 2) Individuals who choose not to participate in a research project can earn the extra credit points by reading and summarizing an article from an APA style Psychology research journal (2 points per summary). Before doing your summary, show the abstract of the article to the course instructor for Page 2 of 6
Psyc 4790 Hesse Analyzing and Changing Human Behavior Syllabus approval. Turn in your typed summary by the remedial exam date. Your summary should include the following points: (two pages maximum) a) Complete reference for the article in APA format. b) The research question or issue that this article is addressing. c) The type and number of subjects used in this research (pigeons, rats, college students, children, developmentally disabled adults, etc.) d) The general procedure & design used in the method section (e.g. surveys, direct observations, independent groups, repeated measures, etc.) e) The general results and conclusions (usually found in the first or last part of the Discussion section). ATTENDANCE and REMEDIAL EXAM: You are expected to attend and participate in each class. If you miss a class you must contact the instructor or a fellow classmate to get what you missed. Most materials (if possible) will be posted on the class website. Absence from a student assessment activity will result in a loss of points for that activity. A comprehensive remedial exam will be given during the regularly scheduled final exam time period for this class during finals week. The score earned on the remedial exam will be used to replace two missed classes. If no classes were missed the remedial exam score can be used to replace the lowest two class scores. The remedial exam is optional. If you do not wish to replace any class points you are finished with the course after the last class. Please do not ask for make-up activities, plan to take the remedial exam to replace missed class points. CHEATING POLICY: If I have good evidence of any form of academic dishonesty (not doing your own work, plagiarizing the work of others or using fraudulent means to acquire grade points) I will fail you for the course, not allow you to attend further classes and send a memo to the Dean of the College of Human and Health Sciences and the chair of your major department detailing the evidence of the cheating episode. Page 3 of 6
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