Ask Your Students to Evaluate Any of the Plays They

question 8

Essay

Ask your students to evaluate any of the plays they may have read for the course and to write an essay advocating a production of one of those plays at your university or theatre. The essay, written from the position of a literary manager, should consider:
-The relevancy of the play to the community or probable audience
-The entertainment value of the play (what about the play engages attention and causes pleasure?)
-The educational value of the play

Identify the role of independent and dependent variables in an experimental design.

Understand the significance of control procedures such as random assignment and double-blind procedures in enhancing the validity of experimental findings.

Recognize the effects of experimenter expectancy and placebo effects on research outcomes.

Understand the concept of replication in research for validating findings.

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Definitions:

Agreement-At-Any-Cost

A situation where individuals prioritize reaching an agreement over the quality or implications of the agreement itself.

Groupthink

A psychological phenomenon in which the desire for harmony or conformity in a group results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome.

Strength of Desire

The intensity of an individual's longing or aspiration towards achieving a specific goal or outcome.

Team Dysfunction

Refers to the breakdown in the effective functioning of a team, leading to conflicts, lack of coordination, and reduced performance.