Students charting graphism in psychology

Blech, C.¹, Gaschler, R.^1
1FernUniversitaet in Hagen

 

Submission type

Oral only

Scheduled

Bouillonzaal, 26-09-2019, 15:30 - 17:00

Keywords

data representation; graphism; bachelor students; understanding science; hard and soft sciences; scientific graphs

Summary

Students’ understanding of a discipline can profit from reflecting upon how it changed over decades. One seemingly superficial change involves graph usage. Changes in how science is being conducted and communicated involve the form of presentation of quantitative results. While different disciplines can contribute to improvements in statistical procedures used in quantitative research, an evidence-based approach to the improvement of visual communication of quantitative results can be provided by psychology (students). As an example of how a student research project can serve the reflection of and better understanding of changes in the discipline, we present a project charting changes in graph use in the discipline across decades. In the project started in January 2018, 20 students have been analyzing 348 volumes of ten different psychology journals over the last two decades. We report on changes in graphism as well as on the reflections of students with respect to changes in their discipline and contribution to science studies.

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