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Summary: Subject Pool Compensation Rates |
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| Posted by: | Cheryl Kaiser |
| Title/Position: | Assistant Professor |
| School/Organization: | University of Washington |
| Sent to listserv of: | SPSP |
| Date posted: | December 3rd, 2007 |
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Dear Colleagues,
Many thanks to those of you who replied to my post concerning subject pool participant compensation rates (the original post is pasted below). I received replies from 40 people, from a wide range of college/university environments. Most respondents were from psychology departments, although a few were from business schools and communication departments.
Twenty-one respondents indicated that their research participation credits could be computed into a percentage of the course grade. These percentages reflect departments that offer research credit purely as extra credit, as a standard course requirement, and as extra credit that can be earned after meeting a standard course requirement. Here is a brief summary of the data:
1 hour of research participation __% of a student’s total course grade:
Mean: 1.80% of total course grade (SD = 0.90%)
Median: 1.67% of total course grade
Mode: 2% of total course grade
Minimum: 0.5% of total course grade
Maximum: 4% of total course grade
The remaining nineteen respondents indicated that their department did not offer course credit for research participation. Instead, students were required to complete a certain amount of research credit (or an equivalent research experience, such as writing a paper or attending lectures). In these departments, students completed research credit in order to avoid aversive consequences of some sort (most common consequences were an incomplete for the course or a grade deduction). As my original post was directed only at departments who offer course credit for participation, it is quite likely that this latter approach to research compensation is more common than reflected in this summary. Indeed, many respondents in this category expressed the belief that this approach was the most typical type of research compensation set-up. Additionally, some respondents expressed concerns about the ethics of having research credits translate into a percentage of a course grade.
Finally, some respondents indicated that the compensation rates were determined by the course instructors, rather than the department.
Thanks again to all those who responded!
Best,
Cheryl
Cheryl R. Kaiser
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Box 351525
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-1525
206-616-1435
ckaiser@u.washington.edu
http://depts.washington.edu/silab/silab.html
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Original Post:
If your department has a subject pool that offers students course credit
for their participation in research, I’d like to know how much each hour of
research credit is worth in terms of a student’s total grade in the course.
Basically, our subject pool committee wants to get a sense of how our "study participation pay rate" compares with other departments.
I've set up a simple web survey to collect your response to this question, and it can be found here:
https://catalysttools.washington.edu/webq/survey/ckaiser/46167
Alternatively, please feel free to e-mail your response to the following question directly to me:
1. One hour of research participation credit is worth ____% of a student's total course grade.
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