Resources for Teachers CD-ROM

ISBN 978-1-84169-230-2 CD-ROM £50.00
This CD-ROM is free of charge to lecturers/teachers who recommend Eysenck: Psychology: A Student's Handbook to 20 or more students.

This CD ROM contains supplementary material for teachers of introductory psychology using Psychology: A Student's Handbook by Michael Eysenck.

If you already own the Resources for Teaching Introductory Psychology CD-ROM you may wish to look at our troubleshooting page.

Key Features

The CD-ROM contains:

• Interactive multiple-choice questions including data analysis facility more>>
• Multiple-choice questions presented in a format suitable for generating hard copies more>>
• Over 60 exercises and activities, including instructions for the tutor and handouts for students more>>
• Over 90 overhead projection master sheets showing diagrams, flow charts and graphs from the book presented in a format suitable for printing out onto OHP acetates more>>

The hardcopy versions of these materials can be output from PC's or Mac computers, but the interactive versions of the Multiple Choice Questions Test Bank require Windows.

Multiple Choice Questions Test Bank

Contributors: Rogers Cocks, Paul Humphreys, Sarah Law

Package

This Resources for Teaching Introductory Psychology CD contains two versions of the Multiple Choice Questions Test Bank, one for the student and one for the tutor, and an installation program to install the software onto PCs with either Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows NT platforms.

Student Version

The student version allows the student to perform a multiple choice test on any one of the 32 chapters, in one of two working modes. The test itself allows the student to select the chapter of their choice, and presents each question always in the same order with 5 possible answers, labelled a to e. The student selects an answer by clicking on the wording of one of them. The student is allowed to change their selection before submitting it. Learning and Progress modes differ in how feedback on responses is presented.

Learning Mode provides the student with feedback after every question (such as whether the answer was correct and if not what the correct answer is). It also keeps a running score (number correct out of number of items answered). At the end of the test the student is provided with some feedback on how well they did in the test and the student then has the option to list the questions answered incorrectly on the screen, and their accompanying options. They then have the further option to print these on an attached printer to obtain a hard copy.

Progress Mode provides no item-by-item feedback but rather just runs through the question set and provides some feedback as to their level of achievement on the current chapter.

The student has the option to view their scores chapter by chapter as a bar chart, presented on screen but also printable on an attached printer.

The student may save his or her work as a profile on a designated location on the hard drive or onto a floppy disk. The student can open a profile from a list of recent users and work on that or just view the progress. Opening a profile from a floppy disk is also an option.

Tutor Version

This version is arranged around the idea of creating or calling up test profiles. That is a test profile consists of the options selected by the tutor to run a multiple-choice test. These options include:

• Select a particular chapter OR create a test from two or more chapters
• Run test in learning mode or progress mode
• Number of questions set
• Reduce the number of alternatives from 5 to 4 or 3
• Record the time taken
• Use a fixed testing time

The tutor can then set a specific test according to the above options.

Further options for the tutor include the ability to edit existing questions and to create new questions (but not new chapters). The tutor may also examine student records individually and print-off individual scores or the scores of a particular group of students.

Finally, the system allows the tutor to examine the facility index of each question, which provides information about the reliability or internal consistency of each item (whether a particular question is too easy or too difficult) and each chapter.

A tutor with multiple copies of the package would be able to set up one test profile in a lab of PCs and test a group simultaneously, and then to load all records onto floppy in order to examine, store and print them.

Hard Copy Version

This CD includes the resources to administer multiple-choice tests using the traditional paper and pen method.

View the question set for any of the 32 chapters and print them off directly. You may also print the student's answer sheet, which is used for students to record their answers on during the test. Each chapter also has a scoring sheet, which indicates the correct answers and can be used to score the answer sheets quickly. The scoring sheet should be printed as a transparency and placed over the student's answer sheet for ease of scoring.

Sample: download RTF file

Exercises and Activities

Contributors: Gill Cappuccini, Sue Caves

Over 60 exercises and activities for use with groups of students, designed to be printed and photocopied as required.

Sample: download PDF file

Overhead Projection Master Sheets

Over 90 overhead projection masters of diagrams and illustrations, provided in a form for easy downloading and printing to create transparencies.

Sample: view example

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