Dr Daniel Richardson
Senior Lecturer, UCL
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 flip the teaching model on its head,” Dan says. “Rather than connecting everything in the final year, we needed to build in research right from the start.”
To close the gap, the department redesigned the first-year syllabus, making students both subject and experimenter.
"This year, I supervised two third-year students who worked together. I had an initial meeting with the students to help them design their experiments. After that, they went away and built the experiment in Gorilla. When I next saw them, the experiment was ready to launch. Extraordinary!"
Senior Lecturer, UCL
Dr Fred Dick
Professor of Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience, Birkbeck
Instead of basic cubicle exercises, devised by the tutors, students can now carry out their own novel research. This is a huge deal for psychology undergraduates.
“Gorilla has worked out a lot of roadblocks that students face, so students are empowered to overcome them. Gorilla comes with a responsive support team who help students and staff solve any problems they encounter. That really stood out for us in our decision to bring it into the curriculum.”
It would have been a real struggle to get a large number of subjects and to get good data before. But over the course of a month and a half, students got well over 100, recruited from all over Europe.
Professor of Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience, Birkbeck
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