Learn how Gorilla transformed teaching and research
Doing “real research” from Year One isn’t the norm. Undergraduate courses tend to begin with the history of the discipline and established theories, and only at the end of their degrees are students able to make a scientific contribution with their own ideas.
With Gorilla, instead of basic cubicle exercises devised by the tutors, students can now carry out their own novel research — with publishable results.
Learn about concrete cases, where Gorilla was used to and significantly aided in teaching students how to run experiments from early on.
UCL First-Year Students Use Gorilla to Determine What Works in Charitable Giving
First-year students at UCL Experimental Psychology demonstrated real-world results from their textbooks with Gorilla. “Gorilla has allowed our students to follow their scientific curiosity, and be rewarded with real data, from the very first stages of their degree.”…
University College London uses Gorilla to Transform Psychology Syllabus
Why did the syllabus need to change? First-year psychology students at UCL typically took part in experiments as subjects. But as guinea pigs, this meant less time scrutinising data, and more time poring over mechanics. “We needed to…
How Gorilla knocked down research barriers at Birkbeck College
What was life like before Gorilla? We teach our undergraduate classes in the evening, which limits testing time. Also, many of our students are geographically-dispersed across the southeast. So in-lab testing and collaboration between…
Still curious? Good!
Learn more about how teaching with Gorilla gives students an understanding of the scientific method and experimentation.
Using Gorilla to teach statistics and research methods
An age-old debate is whether we should teach statistics not using manual calculations, but also using software such as SPSS, MINITAB, JASP etc. While many teachers and lecturers prefer manual calculation, we believe there is a better way. We believe students gain the…
Teaching Research Methods with Gorilla
Published 1st Feb 2021 Gorilla is a brilliant tool for creating online experiments and collecting data from participants in the lab or online. It is free for users to design and build tasks, preview them, and share them with collaborators, which means that…
Gorilla Presents… Teaching Research Methods (Webinar)
This webinar is all about online teaching, specifically teaching psychological research methods online. Academia has had to pivot quite quickly this year and move the majority of its content online. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULtutQJSmr0 With the help of our…