Posted on 5/28/2020 1:53 PM By Nicholas Salter
We are now at the two-year anniversary of the Getting I-O into Intro Textbooks (GIT) task force. As you may know, at the 2018 SIOP Conference then SIOP President, Talya Bauer, launched this effort with the charge to work toward increasing coverage of I-O content in Intro to Psychology textbooks and awareness of I-O among early psychology learners. Many SIOPers know this has been an issue many have tried to tackle for many years. This includes efforts to present at conferences, encouraging membership to give talks at local high schools and community colleges, many efforts to build resources and share them, and so on. GIT built upon on this previous work while directing concentrated effort on the issue through a variety of means, including all the original tasks/goals from President Bauer, and new ones encouraged by now SIOP President, Georgia Chao. Last year, we published a TIP article chronicling what we accomplished in our first year. Given that President Chao renewed the task force charter for one mor ...
Posted on 4/20/2020 5:26 PM By Nicholas Salter
It's clear: academia is now teaching completely virtually for the rest of the semester (and possibly beyond). In last month's blog post, I wrote about resources available for quickly transitioning your class online. In this post, I wanted to dive a bit deeper into the question "What's the difference between teaching I-O in Intro online versus in face-to-face classes?"
To answer this question, I spoke (socially distanced, of course!) with two Intro Psych instructors: Caitlin Lapine and Tom DePatie. Caitlin is an Instructor at Touro College as well as an adjunct at other institutions and Tom is a PhD student at Hofstra University where he adjunct teaches Intro Psych. Both have taught Intro in-person and interestingly, both have been forced (this semester) to teach the I-O component of their Intro classes online. Therefore, I thought they could offer me a unique perspective about the challenges and opportunities associated with teaching I-O ...
Posted on 3/16/2020 1:14 PM By Nicholas Salter
While the world is in the grips of the terrible coronavirus pandemic, you might not be thinking much about "how can I incorporate more I-O into Intro Psych?" However, we are all in this together, and can all contribute to a solution. So in addition to hand-washing and social distancing, members of the SIOP community got together and asked ourselves "how else can we help?"
With many colleges and universities moving their face-to-face classes online, many of us are in the predicament of having to quickly transition our courses to an online format. In response to this need, SIOP’s Education and Training Committee is spearheading a cross-committee effort to share tips and recommendations to help our colleagues quickly transition their courses online. This information will be available in a few ways:
Virtual Office Hours will be Offered
Do you have quick questions (or longer thoughts) on how to transition your classes so quickly to an online set ...
Posted on 2/12/2020 11:55 AM By Nicholas Salter
Here at GIT, our primary goal is to get I-O into Intro Psych textbooks. More broadly, though, we want to expose I-O Psych to students. How else can we do this?
Check out this resource created by Ben Butina from the Department 12 website. It is a free online mini-course on I-O Psychology that can be assigned to Intro Psych students (or anyone interested in the topic):
https://department12.com/introduction-to-industrial-organizational-psychology-mini-course/
Learners can take the course, learn about the topic, answer learning assurance questions, and even get a certificate of completion. This can be a great way for Intro Psych instructors to expose their students to I-O even if they don't know it themselves.
The idea for this mini-course started when Ben interviewed me (Nick Salter) for his podcast about how to put more I-O into Intro. One suggestion I made was for guest I-O speakers to come into classes and talk about the topic. Later, Ben said ...
Posted on 1/20/2020 11:09 PM By Nicholas Salter
In three months (April 2020) we will hit the two-year anniversary of GIT-SIOP. Therefore, now is a good time to ask ourselves “how are we doing?”
As constant readers of this blog will note, GIT has been involved with lots of different efforts. So much has been accomplished! But the main goal of GIT is to get I-O into Intro Psych textbooks. After spending a lot of time creating and collating resources to help make this happen, a letter was sent to Intro Psych textbook authors last fall detailing the resources available to them – and to encourage them to add more I-O to their textbooks. The response was exciting!
Many Are Excited: We received responses from authors of over a dozen Intro textbooks, and all the responses were positive. Many of them agreed that I-O is an under-represented topic within Intro textbooks (one authors said it was a “shortcoming of the books that are out and around”). Some of the responses ...
Posted on 12/17/2019 1:47 PM By Nicholas Salter
SIOP-GIT Blog readers might remember a previous post on two articles Clemente Diaz wrote for the APA's Psych Learning Curve website addressing why Intro instructors should include I-O in their classes as well as the common barriers they face.
Building off of this work, Clemente submitted a poster to the Society for the Teaching of Psychology 4th Annual Twitter Poster Conference - and it was one of two winning submissions! Check it out here:
https://twitter.com/Clem_Diaz/status/1190267329843793920
The big takeaway as to why Intro instructors don't include I-O in their classes is because it isn't in the textbook . . . which is the primary goal of GIT! Let's hope that as progress continues to be made in gettting more I-O into Intro textbooks, we'll see more Intro instructors choosing to cover the topic!
Clemente also created a poster to provide more information on why and how to incorporate I-O psychology into Intro classes; feel free to pass this ...
Posted on 12/3/2019 8:37 AM By Nicholas Salter
Nowadays, memes are a fun and popular way to communicate on the internet. What happens when you mix memes with I-O Psychology? You get I-O Psych Memes, the social media account unofficially run by San Diego State I-O! Check them out (IOPsychMemes on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook)!
The latest post is all about I-O Psych and Intro Psych, which is what GIT is all about:
https://twitter.com/iopsychmemes/status/1201849144257720323
What do you think? Do you agree: should I-O Psych always be taught in Intro Psych??
What is the point of creating memes? As account creator Lisa Kath said, "as much as it seems like creating a meme page is frivolous, I think educators should be aware of how they might really be effective ways of conveying information to our students." Maybe we could all be incorporating memes into our classes - and maybe I-O Psych Memes in particular can be a good resource for Intro Psych students!
What exactly is GIT? ...
Posted on 9/30/2019 8:49 PM By Nicholas Salter
Do you have colleagues that don't know what SIOP is? These new videos might help!
Recently, we created short promotional videos explaining what is SIOP and Industrial & Organizational Psychology. Specifically, these videos feature SIOP members talking all about I-O: what it is, what they do, and what can be done with it. You can check out the videos here:
30 second version: https://youtu.be/Wamkx8luZf4
60 second version: https://youtu.be/9LD19HOy4hM
5 minute version: https://youtu.be/DLR6eCrLih0
As can be seen, a lot of work – and a lot of help from a lot of people – went into creating these videos. It was important to us to highlight the breadth of what I-O Psychologists do and who we are. To this end, we included professors (from both psychology and business departments), external and government consultants, internal practitioners, and graduate students. Additionally, it was also important to us that these videos ref ...
Posted on 9/30/2019 8:37 PM By Nicholas Salter
This month's post comes to us from Clemente Diaz. In this post, he highlights two articles he recently wrote for the APA's Psych Learning Curve website addressing why Intro instructors should include I-O in their classes as well as the common barriers they face. Check it out, and feel free to reach out to him with any questions or thoughts!
As we all know, very few Introductory Psychology textbooks highlight I-O Psychology. To assist instructors in exposing their students to I-O, SIOP has developed a wide variety of teaching resources (sample syllabi, PowerPoints, content summaries, etc). Unfortunately, in some cases this isn’t enough to convince instructors to include I-O in their course(s). A recent survey I conducted showed that 43 percent of respondents weren’t interested in receiving free resources on how to incorporate I-O in to their course(s). When asked why not, one respondent stated “Currently we have access to materials if need be, it [I-O] ju ...
Posted on 9/30/2019 8:36 PM By Nicholas Salter
Would you like to get involved with GIT's efforts to educate more students about I-O Psychology? Consider joining Bridge Builders!
What Is Bridge Builders?
Bridge Builders is a sub-committee of the Education and Training committee of SIOP. The purpose of Bridge Builders to educate students at all levels from high school to college to graduate students (not in I-O) about what I-O Psychology is. Our committee is newly (re)formed, and we have just started this work. To read more about Bridge Builders, please see:
https://www.siop.org/Portals/84/docs/BB%20TIP%205.21.15.pdf?ver=2020-05-27-153353-610
The focus this year based on Dr. Talya Bauer’s charge is on high school psychology courses, and especially AP courses. We have started to brainstorm ideas on how to reach to these AP courses. In particular, there are two efforts being made:
Speaking at High Schools
We would like to develop a list of SIOP members (faculty and graduate students) that would be wi ...
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