ABSTRACT
Deploring students’ casual attitudes about the importance of recording, analyzing, interpreting, and reporting empirical data, Terry Cronan-Hillix at San Diego State University proposed that students in introductory experimental psychology courses should be assigned grades of A or F for the Results sections of laboratory reports. Papers receiving Fs could be resubmitted for reduced grades until they were free of errors. She concluded that we must teach students that accuracy in research is essential if we expect to produce more competent researchers and a more precise science.
