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Publication Day! Moving experimental psychology online: How to obtain high quality data I hope this will be useful sciencedirect.com/science/articl… UCL Experimental Psychology UCL Psych & Lang Sci

We have a 6 month RA position available. Closing date is very soon – 7th Jan and we need someone to start asap. The role will mainly involve data collection and analysis for language experiments using children. Both online and in-school: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

Really pleased to share this new preprint by Anna Gowenlock Exposure to Language in Video and its Impact on Linguistic Development in Children aged 3-11: A Scoping Review with @lilacCourt UCL Experimental Psychology UCL Psych & Lang Sci UCL Language & Cognition osf.io/preprints/psya…

Results from observational (N=31) and experimental (N=62) studies reveal divided literature: video is linked to short-term benefits for learning specific linguistic structures, as well as having negative or null long-term associations with standardised language measures

Fancy including a quick & reliable English vocabulary test in your web-based experiment? This 4-minute English WORDS test may be useful. doi.org/10.31234/osf.i… WORDS: Web-based Open-access Reliable Decision on Synonyms Below see our two-stage approach to develop this test. (1/5)

In Exp 1, 109 participants (18-69 yrs) took a synonym-matching task including an initial set of 51 multiple-choice items. We conducted an item response theory analysis based on accuracy data to select an optimal subset of 30 items with a good reliability for the WORDS test. (2/5)

In Exp 2, we tested the reliability and the validity of the optimal 30-item WORDS test in a new sample of 121 monolingual English-speaking participants (18-79 yrs). Accuracy data confirmed a good reliability (internal consistency) again. (3/5)

Critically, the data replicated well-established word frequency and age effects on task performance: (1) responses were more accurate and quicker for more frequent compared to less frequent words, and (2) older adults showed greater vocabulary knowledge than younger adults. (4/5)

The English WORDS test is now publicly available via Gorilla Open Materials (app.gorilla.sc/openmaterials/…) and the Open Science Framework (osf.io/mgsdq). Any feedback or comments would be much appreciated by the authors (me, Rachael Hulme, Dr Lena M Blott (same handle on blsky), Prof Jenni Rodd). (5/5)

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Nice reviews received for this short online English vocab test by Bobby Po-Heng Chen｜陳柏亨 The test is already available to use in Gorilla Experiment Builder with details in the preprint. Watch this space for the final paper.

Seeing lots of discussion about this “don’t trust MTurk” paper. While it’s maybe useful to have another demo of how bad online data can be, I’d really hoped we’d all moved on to more helpful discussion of what researchers have do to ensure their data is trustworthy 1/some

Online research is hard. You can’t just pay people $1.15, ask them a bunch of boring questions and expect them to pay careful attention. The onus is on us as researchers to design and build tasks where we can have confidence in our own data

There are so many great online expts that demonstrate the utility of collecting data remotely . And so many great best-practice papers setting out how to do good science online.

My recent paper is just one of many constructive resources that tries to help improve online research. Please link to other helpful examples below. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Exposure to Language in Video and its Impact on Linguistic Development in Children Aged 3–11: A Scoping Review Lovely work led by Anna Gowenlock with @lilacCourt UCL Psych & Lang Sci UCL Experimental Psychology journalofcognition.org/articles/10.53…

Web-based Open-access Reliable Decision on Synonyms (WORDS): 4-minute open-access test of English vocab. Led by Bobby Po-Heng Chen｜陳柏亨 with Rachael Hulme Dr Lena M Blott (same handle on blsky) UCL Experimental Psychology UCL Psych & Lang Sci @JCgntn Accessible via Gorilla Experiment Builder Open Materials; app.gorilla.sc/openmaterials/… doi.org/10.5334/joc.391

As an aside, this is the 6th paper we've published in @JCgntn in the last 2 years. I can't recommend them highly enough. Consistently constructive reviews. High expectations wrt open science. Speedy and fully open access. Sponsored by European Society for Cognitive Psychology.

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