System for Teaching Experimental Psychology

Authors: Brian MacWhinneySusan CampbellPing LiChris Schunnand James St. James
Updated: Wed 23 September 2020
Source: https://support.pstnet.com/hc/en-us/categories/360003738794-STEP-Experiments
Type: database
Languages: English
Keywords: experimentdata-collectionpsychologyE-Prime
Open Access: yes
License: none
Documentation: https://support.pstnet.com/hc/en-us/categories/360003738794-STEP-Experiments
Publications: MacWhinney B., St. James J., Schunn C., Li P., Schneider W. (2001). STEP--a System for Teaching Experimental Psychology using E-Prime. Behav Res Methods Instrum Comput. 33(2):287-96. doi: 10.3758/bf03195379.
Citation: MacWhinney, B., Campbell, S., Li, P., Schunn, C., St. James, J. (2001). STEP-- a System for Teaching Experimental Psychology using E-Prime. Psychology Software Tools. https://support.pstnet.com/hc/en-us/categories/360003738794-STEP-Experiments
Summary:

Students in psychology need to learn to design and analyze their own experiments. However, software that allows students to build experiments on their own has been limited in a variety of ways. Because E-Prime promises to become the standard for building experiments in psychology, it is now possible to construct a Web-based resource that uses E-Prime as the delivery engine for a wide variety of instructional materials. This new system, funded by the National Science Foundation, is called STEP (System for the Teaching of Experimental Psychology). The goal of the STEP Project is to provide instructional materials that will facilitate the use of E-Prime in various learning contexts. We are now compiling a large set of classic experiments implemented in E-Prime and available over the Internet from http://step.psy.cmu.edu. The Web site also distributes instructional materials for building courses in experimental psychology based on E-Prime.