{"id":5359,"date":"2016-03-23T14:20:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T14:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/fctl\/?p=5359"},"modified":"2023-02-10T23:19:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T23:19:56","slug":"sometimes-you-just-need-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/tledupdates\/2016\/03\/23\/sometimes-you-just-need-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes You Just Need Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Marshall Bennett<\/strong><\/p>\n

Spring 2016 is my very first semester teaching Introduction to Sociology and there is much to learn.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, I have had excellent teachers showing me the ropes. Most of my teachers have been colleagues from the ACC Sociology Department, i.e. the best Sociology department in America!! But other things I am learning about teaching Introduction to Sociology continue to develop as I listen to my students and dive headlong into the literature.<\/p>\n

And so it was, in turning my attention to the literature, and with my pedagogical eyes fixed on creating a dialogue in my class that centered around the study of basic research methods, that I found an obscure article entitle “Better Engaging Social Sciences Graduate Students in Introductory Research Methods Courses: A Class Activity” by Professor Lisa Zerden and her colleagues (Zerden, et. al., 2014)*.<\/p>\n

Now I realize that my students are not graduate students— but everyone loves cake! Indeed, this almost universal love for cake can motivate students to learn the basics of Research Methods.<\/p>\n

Zerden follows a logical process in her description of this class activity: first, the students are invited to voluntarily participate in a research study and given an informed consent document to sign. Second, the students are given one piece of delicious cake to sample and give survey feedback on.<\/p>\n

Once the class has eaten their cake and taken the survey any number of research methods concepts can be taught.<\/p>\n

My class loved this activity and I was able to reinforce many of the concepts that we had gone over in our more traditional discussion of Research Methods from the prior class meeting.<\/p>\n

*see article here: http:\/\/scholarworks.boisestate.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1039&context=socialwork_facpubs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spring 2016 is my very first semester teaching Introduction to Sociology and there is much to learn.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, I have had excellent teachers showing me the ropes. Most of my teachers have been colleagues from the ACC Sociology Department, i.e. the best Sociology department in America!! But other things I am learning about teaching Introduction to Sociology continue to develop as I listen to my students and dive headlong into the literature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-written-by-faculty"],"acf":{"carousel_content":null},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/tledupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/tledupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/tledupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/tledupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/tledupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/tledupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/tledupdates\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/tledupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/tledupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/tledupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}