College of Education / Educational Psychology Subject Pool

The Bureau of Educational Research is no longer overseeing the college subject pool and the Department of Educational Psychology has been asked to take it over. To facilitate this process we are planning to switch to a web-based STUDY ANNOUNCEMENT sign-up board, rather than using the board in the second floor hallway. We’ll also make a few procedure changes to ensure some oversight.

Instructions for Investigators:

1. Once you obtain your campus Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval letter for a project, please email Julie Kellogg with the PROTOCOL NUMBER(S) and NAME(S) of the active study/studies, and either a website, electronic flyer, or email/phone information so that your request can be listed on our website. Labs that run multiple, ongoing studies that are listed on the lab websites can just provide a LAB URL that will be listed for students to link to. You should also include 1-3 sentences about the study if you do not have a lab website in which details about participation (e.g., length of session; any requirements for participation) are provided.
2. Included in the list below are other departments/labs/projects on campus with reciprocal agreements for their students. For example, LING 111 & LING 225 have agreed to give credit for participation in experiments in COE studies. COE Faculty are asked to likewise give credit for COE students who participate in LING experiments.
3. Instructors who require study participation or who give extra credit for participation can simply LIST THIS WEBSITE on their syllabi and ask students to visit it to locate studies to sign up for.
4. At the beginning of each semester we will email to remind faculty to send information about projects for subject pool participants for that semester.
5. At the end of each semester, all projects listed on the subject pool board will be deleted unless Julie is asked to leave a project up past the end of a semester or remove a project before the end of the semester.

Instructions for Students:

If your course requires that you complete at least 1 subject pool project, or offers extra credit for participation in studies, please review the open projects below and contact the PI either via their website or listed contact information to schedule the project.  Once completed, please have the experimenter sign a participation card and return it to your course instructor for credit.

Human Subject Pool Experiment Participation Form

CURRENTLY AVAILABLE SUBJECT POOL PROJECTS

• Title: Digital Video Instruction for Learning Statistics
  Description: The purpose of this study is to enhance video lessons and help students learn. The participation consists of answering multiple-choice questions about statistics and watching video lessons.
  Eligibility: undergraduate students in CI210, EPSY201, LING225, EPSY405/PSYC456, and EPSY220 who have not participated in the ESSL: Grounded and Embodied Statistics study this semester.
  Duration: 45min - 1 hour
  Compensation: 1 credit hour towards your required research participation (or extra credit, depending on your professor's guidelines)
  Location: College of Education (Rooms 176 or 170, see sign-up link) 
  Flyer; contact: Tiffany Reyes-Denis (tr14@illinois.edu), Robb Lindgren (robblind@illinois.edu)
  Sign up here
  
  
• Title: ESSL: Grounded and Embodied Statistics
  Description: The purpose of this study is to help students learn statistics. The participation is split into 2 sessions:
         * Session 1 consists of answering multiple-choice questions about statistics and watching video lessons. Duration: 1 hour
          * Session 2 takes place two weeks after Session 1 and consists of answering multiple-choice questions. Duration: 20 minutes.
  Eligibility: undergraduate students in EPSY201, LING225, EPSY405/PSYC456, and EPSY220 who have not participated in the Digital Video Instruction for Learning Statistics study this semester.
  Compensation: 1.5 credit hour towards your required research participation (or extra credit, depending on your professor's guidelines)
  Location: College of Education (Room170, see sign-up link) 
  Flyer: contact: Tiffany Reyes-Denis (tr14@illinois.edu), Michelle Perry (mperry@illinois.edu)
  Sign up here
• Title: Interpretation of complex English sentences
  Iris Aque, a linguistics student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is looking for native speakers of Standard North American English to participate in a research study. This research study will be done fully online, and participants will be provided a consent document and information regarding the study prior to receiving access to the study. Participation in the study will be compensated with a $10 Amazon gift card upon completion of the study procedures.
  Project Flyer

• Title: Second Language Scientific Reading Study
  Description: This study will help us learn more about how second language readers learn from scientific texts. You will read different passages about science while your eyes are tracked by an eye-tracker. You will then complete a variety of tasks to test other knowledge. 
  Requirements: Native chinese speakers who use English as a second language; normal vision (glasses/contacts are ok)
  Length: 2 hours
  Location: Beckman Institute, room 1536
  Participation: 2-3 course credits hours or $20
  Questions: contact Shuchen Liu sl256@illinois.edu
  Sign-up here: https://calendly.com/shuchenliu1020/l2-scientific-reading
  
  
• Title: Spanish English Health Scenarios
  Seeking both English monolinguals (for an English-only version) and Spanish L1-English L2 bilinguals (for the Spanish-English version). You will be asked to read sentences in Spanish and English in a survey on Qualtrics. The experiment will take no more than 60 minutes to complete. All participants who wish to be entered into a drawing for one of two (2) $50 gift cards will be entered into the drawing. Experiment conducted by Dr. Kiel Christianson, Department of Educational Psychology, and Esther Nam, Department of Psychology.
  Project flyer

• Title: ASDGP: Online Reading Task
  We’re looking for students to take part in an online study about how people process written language. Autistic participants are especially needed, and self-diagnosed autistic participants are welcome! There is no preference or advantage given to autistic or non-autistic participants. 
  
  Participation includes a short background questionnaire and a self-paced task involving reading sentences and answering comprehension questions. The duration of the task will depend on participants’ reading speed but should take no longer than 1 hour. The entire study will take place entirely online. 
  
  To be eligible, participants must:
  • be current UIUC students (undergraduate or graduate)
  • be 18 or older
  • be a native English speaker
  • have normal or corrected-to-normal vision (glasses and contacts are okay!)
  • have access to the internet and a desktop computer or laptop 
  All participants will be entered into a drawing for one of two $50 Amazon gift cards. 
  
  This study is being conducted by an autistic student researcher who understands that sharing diagnostic information is highly personal. Participation is voluntary, and all identifying information will be kept strictly confidential. 
  
  If you are interested in participating, please reach out to lw30@illinois.edu or fill out the following Google Form: https://forms.gle/5WFMaPhoPbvg6oV78." 

• Title: Information and Modulation Masking in Speech Perception
  Description: We’re recruiting native American English speakers who age 18-35 with normal hearing for a study on speech perception in noise. The session includes a brief hearing check, short questionnaires, and a headphone-based listening task. Total time is about 60 minutes and participants receive $15 upon completion (cash/Zelle/Venmo). Sessions are held in-person at the Beckman Institute Room 2412 (405 N Mathews Ave, Urbana). 
  Contact: To participate or ask questions, please use the google form or contact Yixin Gu yixingu2@illinois.edu.
  Project Flyer

• Project: Online Processing of Sentence Repetition
  Requirement: Native speaker of Chinese / L2 Chinese Speakers
  Participants: You must be at least 18 years old. You should have normal or corrected-to-normal vision (with glasses or contact lenses without color).
  Contact: yulinp4@illinois.edu
  Procedure: The experiment will take place in Beckman 2412 and last for 60 minutes. In this experiment, you will listen to some short Chinese sentences and answer some questions using a computer. 

• Project: Speakers' Knowledge of English, Spanish, and Korean
  Digital Flyer
  Requirements: We are looking for:

1. Native Spanish speakers aged 18 and older who have resided in the US less than 5 years;
2. Native Korean speakers aged 18 and older who have resided in the US less than 5 years;
3. Native English speakers aged 18 and older who have at least Intermediate proficiency in Korean (MUST NOT know any other languages);
4. English-Spanish bilinguals aged 18 and older who have at least Intermediate proficiency in Korean (MUST NOT know any other languages).

Procedure: This study is completely online and involves up to three sessions, dependent on your language background. You will be asked to complete a sentence judgment task.
To sign up:  https://forms.gle/BVWMTN92vrY8jBUv6

• Contact: http://epl.beckman.illinois.edu/current-experiments/
  Dr. Christianson has experiments for both native and nonnative speakers of English.  Most of his experiments require you to read sentences and answer questions while your eye movements are monitored. Some experiments entail doing math problems or reading text without eye tracking.