Oliver Hulme, Department of Psychology
Abstract
Interactive notebooks for teaching mastery in psychology
Mastering quantitative skills is challenging because skills are often to be acquired sequentially, with one skill stacking onto another. In teacher-paced courses, students that fail to finish mastering a given skill, are then typically required to move onto the next skill without having mastered the first. This can mean that learning is patchy, making mastery of the topic impossible. In this project, I will experiment with interactive python notebooks, where students can engage in self-paced interactive exercises from the same material as the lecturer lectures from. Class time is dedicated to lectures from the notebooks and self-paced interactive activities where the teacher floats around the classroom assisting students. I will evaluate the merits of this approach qualitatively via student questionnaires and peer feedback in comparison to similar content courses.