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

• IRB Protocol number: IRB24-0216
  Project: This study explores the feasibility of a novel eye-tracking battery designed to evaluate joint attention skills.  
  Project flyer
  Compensation: Participants will receive a $30 Amazon e-gift card (no class credits)
  Requirement: College students 18-24 years old
  Contact: Christy Yoon at cdyoon2@illinois.edu
  
• IRB Protocol number:  23970
  Project: TQII English Proficiency Test
  Requirement: A participant must be a native American English speaker.
  Procedure: You will be asked to take an online English proficiency test. The test consists of reading questions, sentence repetition tasks, and open-ended speaking tasks to assess your English language skills. Before doing the test, you will complete a quick practice session, and at the end of the test, we will also ask you to complete a brief survey about your language background and your experience with the test. The total test time is 2 hours. 
  Sign-up website: https://form.jotform.com/tqiiuiuc/tqiitest.
  Contact: tqii-proficiency-test@education.illinois.edu

• Project: EdMem 1 (Online)
  Requirement: Must be able to earn research credit in EPSY/PSYC/LING course.
  Procedure: You will read sentences and answer questions about them. You must have a stable internet connection. Data will only be saved if you reach the end of the experiment. There is no partial credit if you do not finish the experiment. This will take approximately 30-45 minutes to complete. You will receive one credit research participation in a EPSY/PSYC/LING course emailed within a week of your participation.
  Signup: To sign up or ask questions, please email Jack Dempsey at jkdemps2@illinois.edu with the subject line reading “EdMem”.

• Project: SPGP 3 (Online)
  Requirement: must NOT have participated in any “SGPG” before and must be able to earn research credit in EPSY/PSYC/LING course. If you participated in any experiment called "SPGP" before January 2024, you are not eligible.
  Procedure: You will read short stories and answer questions about them. You must have a stable internet connection. Data will only be saved if you reach the end of the experiment. There is no partial credit if you do not finish the experiment. This will take approximately 30-45 minutes to complete. You will receive one credit research participation in a EPSY/PSYC/LING course emailed within a week of your participation.
  Signup: To sign up or ask questions, please email Jack Dempsey at jkdemps2@illinois.edu with the subject line reading “SPGP”.

• Project: CREye (for cash payment only, NOT for research participation credit)
  Requirement: Participants must be 18 or older, must have grown up speaking English as a primary language, and must NOT have participated in the CRESL experiment.
  Procedure: The experiment will take place in Beckman 1536. There will be three separate one-hour sessions. During each session, participants will complete reading tasks. During the last session, their eye movements will be recorded. For each session, you will earn $20, plus an additional $20 bonus for completing the third session.
  Signup: To sign up or ask questions, please email Jack Dempsey at jkdemps2@illinois.edu with the subject line reading “CREye”.
• Project: Speakers' Knowledge of Korean 
  Requirement: Participants must be aged 18 or older and have resided in the US for no more than 5 years.
  Procedure: The experiment will take place ​in LCLB G70. During the 60-minute study, participants will complete a picture description task and a sentence-picture judgment task.
  Sign-up website: https://calendly.com/korean-ling-pilot/korean-linguistics-study
  Digital Project Flyer
  Please contact Isela Silvera (isilve2@illinois.edu) for more information.

• Project: Metacognitive Calibration with Machine Learning
  Contact: Frank Stinar (fstinar2@illinois.edu)
  In this study, you will first take a brief survey regarding prior online learning experience and background information, then a brief test on a statistics topic, followed by a 1-hour self-guided learning session on statistics, and finish with a similar brief test on the statistics topic. Total experiment time is approximately 2 hours. We are in the early stages of this research, so participants will be asked to "think aloud" during the study to provide insight into how the learning software works.
• Project: Speech Perception in Noise by English Native Speaker - Recording session
  Requirement: participant must be a native American English speaker. We are currently looking for 4 male speakers. 
  Procedure: The experiment takes place at Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building, G90 (LCLB, formerly Foreign Language Building). G90 is in the basement.
  Sign-up website: https://calendly.com/mingyue-kaku/speech-recording; Contact Mingyue Huo (mhuo5@illinois.edu) for more information.
  

• PIs: Dr. Jerome Packard and Yihan Zhou
  Project Title: Mandarin pronunciation experiment
  Contact: yzhou114@illinois.edu
  Chinese native speakers are needed for this experiment. In this study, you will be asked to either pronounce or listen to sentences in Chinese. The total experiment time may range from 1 hour to 2 hours, depending on the task. Participants will be compensated with 1 course credit per hour. If you would like to participate, please email Yihan Zhou (yzhou114@illinois.edu) to sign up for an experiment.

• Chinese native speakers and L2 learners of Chinese are needed for this experiment. In this study, you will be asked to read sentences word by word and fill out an acceptability judgment task. The total experiment time is 30-40 minutes for native speaker and 50-60 minutes for L2 learners. Participants will be compensated with extra credit. If you would like to participate, please email Junghwan Maeng (jmaeng3@illinois.edu) to sign up for an appointment. Additional details for this study can be found here.
• 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.