Embedded Files
Methods &
Information
Information
Register
Register
Submissions
Submissions
2025 Virtual Conference
December 10th & 11th
9am - 1pm Pacific Time/ 12pm - 4pm Eastern Time
The PsychTERMS conference will bring together instructors of research methods and statistics in psychology for a virtual two-day interactive event. This conference is for instructors who:
teach or are planning to teach research methods or statistics to undergraduate students.
are new or seasoned instructors of undergraduate research methods or statistics.
want to learn more about novel, inclusive, and inspirational ways of teaching research methods and statistics.
have well tested or evidence-based activities, assignments, or policies for effective teaching of research methods and statistics to share.
support students' critical thinking about research methods and statistics across the psychology curriculum, including in content courses.
Invited Speakers
Invited Speakers
Dr. Tricia Bertram Gallant
UC San Diego
Dr. Tricia Bertram Gallant
UC San Diego
About the Speaker:
Dr. Bertram Gallant is an internationally known expert on integrity and ethics in education. She is the director of the Academic Integrity Office and the Triton Testing Center at UC San Diego. She has consulted with or presented at high schools, colleges, universities and professional associations throughout the U.S. and around the world. She is a prolific writer of journal articles, book chapters, and books. Her latest book is "The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI" (University of Oklahoma Press, 2025). Her previous books include "Academic Integrity in the Twenty-First Century" (Jossey-Bass, 2008), "Cheating in School" (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), "Creating the Ethical Academy" (Routledge, 2011), and "Cheating Academic Integrity: Lessons Learned from 30 Years of Research" (Wiley, 2022).
Dr. Amanda Woodward
University of Minnesota
About the Speaker:
Dr. Woodward is an Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. She received her PhD from the University of Maryland in 2020. Her developmental research focuses on social inclusion and exclusion. In her current role, she teaches large undergraduate courses in statistics and advanced research methods, including courses on Open Science and R programming. Since she started, almost 3,000 students have taken one of her methods or statistics courses at the University of Minnesota. She also works with undergraduate students to conduct Scholarship of Teaching and Learning projects focusing on factors related to how students learn statistics. Her pedagogical research has been published in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Psychology Learning & Teaching. Her work has also been featured in popular education blogs like E-xcellence and the Society for the Teaching of Psychology: “This is how I teach”. Outside of her teaching role, Amanda is an active member of the Society of Teaching Psychology and is working to promote Open Science resources with Project FORRT.
Call for Submissions
Call for Submissions
Share a technique or best practice that you have implemented in a research methods or statistics course.
Presentations (20-min concurrent virtual talk)
Presentations will focus on effective pedagogical aspects or approaches used to teach research methods or statistics courses. This format is best for presenting course-ready assignments or examples, pedagogical approaches or innovations that motivate students and support learning, and will likely include evidence of effectiveness and/or a connection to learning science/evidence based pedagogy.
Posters (60-min time in a shared virtual space, Gather, with a roaming audience):
A virtual environment will be used to share a static infographic or poster and interact with other conference attendees via live video and audio or text chat. This format is best for more casual sharing and conversations about your resources, demos, creative use of textbooks, in class experiments, projects ideas, and useful data sets.
Sponsored by:
APA's all-digital courseware that immerses students and personalizes learning
—now available for Research Methods and Statistics courses.
Page updated
Google Sites
Report abuse