Book Review of Disrupting the Status Quo of Senior Living: A Mindshift by Jill Vitale-Aussem

Book Review of Disrupting the Status Quo of Senior Living: A Mindshift by Jill Vitale-Aussem, Health Professions Press, 2019, ISBN 978-1938870828, 216 pages

Graduate Student Researchers\u27 Knowledge/Efficacy: Results from a Virtual Lab

Stadtlander and Giles (2010) showed the feasibility of a virtual psychology research laboratory. The present study examines improvement in students’ research skills and efficacy in a three quarter lab. Students conducted interviews in a faculty designed project, analyzed the data, and co-wrote a journal manuscript. Findings indicate lab students’ research knowledge and efficacy improved significantly over non-lab graduate students

Graduate Student Researchers\u27 Knowledge/Efficacy: Results from a Virtual Lab

Stadtlander and Giles (2010) showed the feasibility of a virtual psychology research laboratory. The present study examines improvement in students’ research skills and efficacy in a three quarter lab. Students conducted interviews in a faculty designed project, analyzed the data, and co-wrote a journal manuscript. Findings indicate lab students’ research knowledge and efficacy improved significantly over non-lab graduate students

Virtual Instruction: A Qualitative Research Laboratory Course

Online graduate programs in psychology are becoming common; however, a concern has been whether instructors in the programs provide adequate research mentoring. One issue surrounding research mentoring is the absence of research laboratories in the virtual university. Students attending online universities often do research without peer or lab support and without previous experience in supervised research projects. This paper describes a virtual qualitative research lab course at an online university that both mentored students and collected data through a virtual qualitative lab on a national scale. The authors also address logistics, problems and issues that arose, as well as suggestions for future courses

Virtual Instruction: A Qualitative Research Laboratory Course

Online graduate programs in psychology are becoming common; however, a concern has been whether instructors in the programs provide adequate research mentoring. One issue surrounding research mentoring is the absence of research laboratories in the virtual university. Students attending online universities often do research without peer or lab support and without previous experience in supervised research projects. This paper describes a virtual qualitative research lab course at an online university that both mentored students and collected data through a virtual qualitative lab on a national scale. The authors also address logistics, problems and issues that arose, as well as suggestions for future courses

Validation of the Health Efficacy and Assertiveness Scale

Recently, health care has required the role of “patient to change from a receptive role to an active one. Patients\u27 responsibilities for discussing health with their physicians require greater health assertiveness and efficacy. There is not a validated survey examining patient assertiveness and self-efficacy. This study addresses this issue.https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/archivedposters/1133/thumbnail.jp

The Online Faculty Work Environment: An Exploratory Study

There is a considerable literature on college faculty working at in-person institutions and their work. However, there is little research on the online faculty home work environment. The present study, consisting of 236 survey respondents from 38 online institutions, examines how online faculty structure their home work environment.https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/archivedposters/1093/thumbnail.jp

Students’ Research Skills and Self Efficacy Gained in an Online Laboratory

Stadtlander and Giles (2010) showed the feasibility of an online psychology research laboratory. The proposed study extends their work by examining whether students’ research skills and self-efficacy improves in an online lab, as has been reported in land based research labs (Love et al., 2007).https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/archivedposters/1023/thumbnail.jp

The Virtual Research Lab: Research Outcomes Expectations

This paper examines the complexities of working with student researchers in a virtual lab setting, logistics, and methods to resolve issues. To demonstrate the feasibility of a virtual lab, a mixed method study consisting of quantitative surveys and qualitative data, examined changes in doctoral students’ confidence as measured by research outcome expectations and changes in a self-assessment of research knowledge and skills test in a three quarter virtual psychology research lab. In the lab, 10 doctoral students conducted a faculty-designed project, analyzed data, and co-wrote a literature review. Findings indicate lab students’ research knowledge and research outcome expectations improved significantly over non-lab comparison students. Student journals provided qualitative evidence of the student experience in a virtual research lab. Students reported individual growth, self-learning, and appreciating the shared group experience with a common goal. Students related that the application of skills learned in classes to a research setting was more difficult than anticipated

The National Online Faculty Survey: Who Is Doing Research?

Preliminary results of the National Online Faculty Survey (N = 236) are reported. Data from 99 individuals (41.9% of the sample) who reported conducting research in the past 2 years (not own dissertation or thesis) are explored. 45% reported doing their research online. Characteristics of the researchers and studies are discussed.https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/archivedposters/1057/thumbnail.jp