Participants at your fingertips: Using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to increase student–faculty collaborative research.

Volume: 39, Issue: 4, Pages: 245 - 251
Published: Oct 3, 2012
Abstract
The literature suggests students gain important skills when directly involved with faculty in research. However, students at smaller institutions are often faced with limited research opportunities and faculty members are faced with limited participant-pools, funding, and space to perform research. Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) may provide a solution to many of these problems. MTurk provides an online human participant-pool, along with tools...
Paper Details
Title
Participants at your fingertips: Using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to increase student–faculty collaborative research.
Published Date
Oct 3, 2012
Volume
39
Issue
4
Pages
245 - 251
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