Research Participation for Psy 105 and 106:
Information for Instructors

Email the Research Participation Coordinator to request an account

You will need an "Instructor" account on the Experiment Management System in order to retrieve your students' credit reports. If you already have an account as a PI or Researcher, you will need an additional account (with a different userID) as an instructor.

When you email to request an account, please put the following on a single line, separated by commas:

   userID, last name, first name, email address

UserID is the login name you want for the account, not your DePaul ID number - your last name with the numeral "2" appended is a good default value. In your email, also list the section(s) of Psy 105 and 106 that you are teaching, along with meeting days and times, so that the Coordinator can give you access to your students' credit reports.

When sending your request for an account, use the "Email questions to" address listed on the Experiment Management System web site.

Inform your students about Research Participation requirements

On the first day of class, please explain the Research Participation Requirement to your students and encourage them to register and complete the prescreening survey as soon as possible. You will probably want to print out the instructions for students from this web site and give them out along with your course syllabus, and list the following URL on your syllabus:

   http://www.depaul.edu/~psych/experiments

Log in and Check Your Students' Progress

No later than week 5 of the quarter, you should log in to your instructor account on the Experiment Management System and check your class roster. Notify the Coordinator if any students are listed for your section who are not actually enrolled in your class. If any of the students in your class have not yet established accounts in the system, contact them and remind them to do so.

Retrieving Student Credit Reports

You can check your students' credit totals any time on the Experiment Management System web site. Although the subject pool closes on the last day of classes, the final totals including credits for optional papers may not be available until the last day of final exams. Students are permitted to turn in the optional papers up until the last day of classes, and it may take several days for the Coordinator to grade and enter the credits for the papers. The coordinator should send you an email to let you know when all of the paper credits have been entered.

Until you receive the email from the coordinator indicating that all paper credits are entered and the credit totals are finalized, credit totals could change, either because new credits have been awarded or because a student who is enrolled in both Psy 105 and 106 has reassigned some credits from one course to the other. You should wait until the coordinator announces that credit totals have been finalized before downloading your students' totals to use in calculating their grades.

If it is absolutely essential that you know the final totals before the last day of the final exam period, you may want to have students turn in their papers to you rather than to the main office so that you can grade them yourself and not have to wait for the Coordinator to enter them into the system. Be aware, however, that until the Coordinator announces that the credit totals are finalized it is possible that some student totals could change due to delayed experiment credits or error corrections.

Recruiting Policy

Please do not allow researchers to make announcements about studies or collect data in your classroom, and do not offer students extra credit for participating in particular studies. Direct recruiting of research participants in Intro Psych classes is strictly prohibited. Researchers may not announce their study in class, through emails, handouts, flyers, etc. ALL participant recruiting of Intro Psych students must be done through the online Research Participation System, and no credit, extra credit, or payments may be made to Intro Psych students for research participation except as administered through the Research Participation Pool system.

Contact

For administrative and operational requests and questions, contact the Research Participant Coordinator at experiments@davidallbritton.com

For questions about Subject Pool policies, contact the Research Participation Pool Manager, David Allbritton.

Updated May 9, 2007