Invitation to contribute to a new STP e-book

At the APA Summit on High School Psychology Education held this summer, it was agreed that one way to promote the understanding that psychology is a science is to incorporate lab exercises into the high school psychology course. To further this goal, Strand 1 (Psychology as a Science) at the summit created several examples of what a lab exercise could look like, how data from the exercise could be analyzed, and created a model for a lab report. A new e-book is planned that will provide examples of lab exercises for each of the topics in the introductory course. The Society for the Teaching of Psychology (STP) is seeking additional editors who will create six lab exercises for a given topic. The process is to adapt demonstrations and experiential learning exercises that teachers use, and turn them into lab exercises by including a process for collecting and analyzing data after which the students complete a lab report. The plan is to create teams to do this. The models for creating the lab exercises and lab reports will be provided. At this point, STP has the following topics/teams already organized:

E-book on lab exercises

Additional topics for which we are inviting participation include: Intelligence, Motivation & Emotion, Personality, Therapy, Health and Critical Thinking. If you are interested in co-editing one of the topics for which STP does not already have two editors, please contact Rick Miller.