Some learning and teaching resources

They are learning resources tailored for students and staff in the Psychology Department of Glasgow University, but possibly useful elsewhere if adapted. Copying is allowed, comments welcome. Feel free to use them, but they have not been extensively checked and tested, and are not the last word on their topics.

List for students and staff

• (Here is a complete but unformatted list of pages for courses I teach / have taught.)
• Induction for arriving students

• PAL (Peer Assisted Learning) in the psychology department
• Year abroad / foreign students studying here     email aliases to foreign students
• Critical reviews     Reciprocal critiquing     Examples of CRs     CR plan     E.g.s of topics, possibly for microCT exercise
• miniprojects
• Punctuation help   (N.B. considerable advice on writing essays, reviews etc. is included within the "Critical reviews" document above.)
• My resources for postgraduate students
• Slides from level 4 exam prep. workshop 21 April 09
• Slides from level 3 exam prep. workshop 22 April 09
• Department handbooks and timetables: I have collected links here

• Exams

  • Exam times in 2013 (the official source) when decided (see also this entry page;   2;   deadlines for staff)
  • Level 3 exams for psychology department students
  • Examination halls: Where are they?  
    • a map with only exam halls (but missing some new ones)     Standard campus map shows all the buildings
    • (You can also try my written directions to some of them.)
    • Registry page on exam venues
    • Some other campus maps
    • Library room 735 (special facility for some students using a computer for exams)
  • Exam results: MyCampus is the official and only source (apart from getting a letter).
  • Getting a transcript etc.   Getting a transcript   HEAR at Senate Office   HEAR at SRC  
  • How to interpret your (level 3) exam results
  • Student absence policy: summary and details. What this may mean is that claiming weeks or months later that you missed academic work but didn't tell the university, will not be accepted.
  • Students: Reporting an absence
  • University calendar rules on illness and exams, called "incomplete assessment and good cause": entry page (and more basic entry page) and PDF document (see esp. section 16.45 - 16.53 pages "Gen.10-14")
  • Guide to the Code of assessment
  • Advice for students in 2014 by Clerk of Senate on exams and "good cause"     (and to staff).
  • Invigilation rules: part of the same PDF document.
  • For result return codes, see below in "Staff and student" section.
• Past class exam papers are on our dept. portal under: Home >> Level 3 Course Documentation and Resources >> Course Info
• Past exam papers are available from the library
  • Do Merlin login to your personal library record, if it works.
  • Then try this
  • Else:
  • go to http://eleanor.lib.gla.ac.uk/search~S3
  • Search on (e.g.) "psychology honours"
  • Pick the year you want, and click on the "Full list of Digital Images"
  • Pick the paper you want to view (these are physical exam papers, not modules)
  • N.B. you may find some on our portal under "course information": particularly recent ones missing from the library
• Turnitin
• Student access to online Registry stuff: WebSURF   SURF   ExamSURF
• Dates of academic sessions, semesters, etc.   Foreign exchange dates   Teaching week numbers (see bottom of page)
• University information for current students: Registry and Newsdesk
• Finding places and rooms in the university

• Ethics matters: ethics committee applications etc.

  • Student ethics committee applications form: (All maxi project students need to submit one of these.)   Portal copy   Simon's copy
    BPS ethics guidelines (local copy)   BPS ethics guidelines (BPS website)
  • ESRC ethics guidebook
  • Online psychology ethics submissions (Press "Submit proposal" to start filling in an online form. Students can do this. You may need to have ready word documents ready to upload with the proposal, consent forms, etc.)
  • Example consent form
  • Example information sheet
• Stats consultation for maxi project students: the proforma (copied from the portal 9 Feb 09)
• International Personality Item Pool: Free personality questionnaires See also:
  Lewis R. Goldberg (2006) "The international personality item pool and the future of public-domain personality measures" Journal of Research in Personality vol.40 no.1 pp.84-96 www.elsevier.com/locate/jrp
  Also http://www.personal.psu.edu/j5j/IPIP/

• Individual psychology staff (find their emails)
• Launchpad for literature searches
• The value of the degree
• A test of graduate preparedness (skills) for work. This is an Australian sample test for graduates of employable skills, called GSA = Graduate Skills Assessment, mentioned in THES (Times Higher Education Supplement) 18 June 2004 p.11. (local PDF copy taken 28 June 2004.)
• A teach-yourself tutorial on internet information skills for psychologists
• A database of psy. papers. Both citations, user notes/comments, and pointer to free copies of papers.
• Using the internet as a search tool
• How to cite web documents in bibliographies
      Australian document on APA/Harvard style for citing web docs in bibliography     in line
      Australian document on APA/Harvard style
      APA ref style

• Phil Agre's guide (for postgrads) on human networking on the internet     (and this?)
• Guide on human networking on the internet. Intended for business people, but recommended by a student teacher
• PhDs by publication: a personal view
• Print off a blank timetable to help plan your weekly activities
• Classics in the History of Psychology
• Being interviewed: an animation by Darran Dunsmore   direct link (for Macs, Quicktime, 18 Mbytes)
    for Macs, Quicktime, 18 Mbytes
    for PCs, MPEG, 35 Mbytes
    for PCs, MPEG, 22 Mbytes
    for PCs, MPEG, 20 Mbytes
    for PCs, SWF, 8 Mbytes

Counselling and support for students

• List of different kinds of support for students
  • A General list of student facilities, Student Information Desk

  • Chaplaincies
  • Childcare   University nursery
  • Student Disability Service
  • Student Enterprise
  • Student health   Student mental health
  • Student Information Points
  • Student Learning Service / Effective Learning Advisors, study skills
  • Student Network (mentoring by other students)

  • Student Counselling and Advisory Service
    65 Oakfield Avenue. 0141 330 4528
    
  • National pointers to (student) counselling services
  • "Night line" 0141 353 1050 Phone line for students 7pm-7am.
  • The Samaritans 08 547 90 90 90
• Counselling for staff (independent of the university): 0800 282 193

List for staff and students

• Teaching timetables: by week or lecturer; by level: 1 2 3 4   by module   printed level3 and 4   blank weekly
• level 3 exam subject combinations, names, and modules (plans for new arrangements)
• Some psychology course codes
• Registry exam info for staff   dates
• Result return codes. Return codes
• Result return codes. New head page New year-specific page New booklet PDF Newer booklet PDF
• Ways to search for a student
• websurf (new): access by staff as well as students to the records of an individual student?
• SMS texting to students / classes
• Rooms lookup (univ.):   List of all rooms, by bldg.   Bldg name index → room photos   Bldg photos index → room photos
      LT Capacity → LT     (Capacity bands → (all) rooms)     (Types → (all) rooms)
      Booking lookup     1 2 3 4 Click 2 then on <link>.
• Room booking (dept.):   BoydOrr booking   HillheadSt.
• Room booking (univ.):   Booking   Equipment (Click on bldg; then click on room name)   IP addrs   wireless
• Report LT A/C faults
• CCIMS for registering (new) courses.
• Re-engineering Assessment Practices in Scottish Higher Education. E-assessment
• Ethics for staff: BPS ethics guidelines    Simon's entry     FIMs/submit     reviewApp  
  Student ethics committee applications (All maxi project students need to submit one of these.)
• A tutorial exercise in reciprocal critiquing
• A tutorial exercise in giving practice talks
• One minute papers: a simple feedback technique
• Teaching in the round
• Using handsets for interactive lectures
• Formative feedback to honours students
• Software marking assistant
• Seminars I (sometimes) find worth going to
• This is a set of techniques teachers can consider applying
• A Berkeley Compendium of Suggestions for Teaching with Excellence
• Using Acrobat readers and PDF web files
• Tips on running a video conference / tutorial
• List of support services
• My access to the teaching database
• Teaching and learning in pictures
• Teaching and learning jokes
• Plagiarism:   email aliases to foreign students   turnitin software   .   org   senate pointers

• Other ideas and initiatives to do with education tactics at this university can be found from here.
• Data Protection Act

• Help on "scholarship of teaching and learning" i.e. publishing about your teaching innovations. http://www.gla.ac.uk/sotl/