Research Participation Credit Policy

The current policy in the department is that all students enrolled in face to face and online Introduction to Psychology (1010) courses be involved in a minimum of 10 credits of research. A credit is defined as 15 minutes of involvement in an approved research activity. Therefore, each student needs to participate in at least 2.5 hours of research during the semester.

Because it is important that research credits be assigned accurately for each project, it is recommended that researchers carefully screen projects to determine the amount of time the project will require of the participant. This can easily be done for web-based studies through the "Preview" feature of Qualtrics.