As of 2019, Psychology will become a science discipline that is able to be taught in Queensland High Schools. The curriculum as it currently stands, and reflected in its aims and objectives, places a heavy emphasis upon students developing key research skills in psychology. A series of four workshops will provide teachers with the necessary skills to confidently deliver teach the Mandatory Pracs as part of the curriculum. These workshops may be for you if you are not confident in the development of mandatory and recommended laboratories or the development of in-house assessment pieces.
| Workshop 1 | Saturday 16 March, 2019 | 9am - 3pm | W Block - Room W414 - USQ Toowoomba | Mandatory Prac #1 | Register Now |
| Workshop 2 | Saturday 6 April, 2019 | 9am - 3pm | W Block - Room W414 - USQ Toowoomba | Mandatory Prac #2 | Register Now |
| Workshop 3 | Saturday 27 April, 2019 | 9am - 3pm | W Block - Room W414 - USQ Toowoomba | Mandatory Prac #3 | Register Now |
| Workshop 4 | Saturday 11 May, 2019 | 9am - 3pm | W Block - Room W414 - USQ Toowoomba | Mandatory Prac #4 | Register Now |
In each science discipline, students must partake in a number of mandatory laboratories and run a number of additional recommended laboratories. In the other sciences, laboratory equipment is purchased external to the school, and experiments are readily conducted.
In Psychology, there are no off-the shelf laboratories that can be pre-purchased. At this stage teachers must develop their own laboratories when they have very little experience in conducting psychological research. Thus, one of the initiatives that USQ has undertaken is to develop both mandatory and recommended laboratories.
A series of four workshops (one for each mandatory prac has been created). Each workshop presents the thinking behind the mandatory prac, it goes through the process of creating the prac, the prac session is conducted, data is collected and analysed.
Hands on instruction in statistical analysis, use of spreadsheets for data manipulation, summaries and presentation are also incorporated.
At the end of the workshop participants will be given all the materials needed to run the workshop in their schools (save for some biological testing hardware), and materials that can be used to generate in-house assessment pieces.
Should you require further information please contact Faculty Marketing.