Flipping the Classroom Using Team-Based Learning in Undergraduate Research Methods

This course is an Introduction to methods of the science of psychology. It is the first class in a 3-course methods and statistics sequence to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology at CSU Sacramento. It has a high "fail" rate and a substantial achievement gap for under-represented minority students. This course challenges beginning Psychology students, who typically are interested in the discipline for the behavioral, cognitive, neuroscientific, or humanistic sub disciplines -- not for the methodology or the math/statistics. Consequently, this material is dramatically different and unfamiliar, and students struggle to achieve the learning outcomes and understand the course's alignment with the rest of the Psychology discipline.