Hunt Grant Questions
Up to three grants of $3,000 each are presented annually to enable members to complete empirical research which addresses a question directly related to Psi Chi, as posed by either (1) the Psi Chi National Council (see below), or (2) the researcher submitting a proposal.
Listed below are 12 suggested Hunt Research Grant questions as posed by the Psi Chi National Council.
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Graduate school? What percentage of Psi Chi members go on to graduate school versus psychology majors who are not Psi Chi members? How did Psi Chi influence them in their pursuit of graduate school?
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Award submissions? Research Psi Chi awards programs to determine why more members and chapters do not send submissions to Psi Chi. How can Psi Chi increase student/faculty applications for the many awards Psi Chi gives each year?
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Effects of winning award? Search for former Newman, Guilford, and Allyn & Bacon Award winners to determine what they are doing today and what effect winning a Psi Chi award has had on their academic and professional careers.
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Membership acceptances? What percentage of invitations to Psi Chi membership are accepted by students invited to join? Research reasons why those who join do so, and why those who don't join decide to decline the invitation.
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Successful membership drives? What are the best methods of attracting and inducting the largest number of new Psi Chi members? Describe membership drives used by successful chapters.
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Successful chapters? What are the practices and principles of success found in highly active chapters? How do they keep their members involved? What do they ask of their members, and what benefits and rewards do they offer in return?
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Regional conventions? Regional psychology conventions provide the setting for many students' first tangible encounter with the broader study and profession of psychology outside the realm of their own campus. How do these first convention experiences affect students in their academic and professional careers? What aspects of these meetings are most beneficial (or intimidating)? Which regional meetings are the most student friendly, and why? How can regional psychology associations better serve students, their future members?
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Fundraising? What are some especially good (and bad) ways to raise funds? Though most Psi Chi chapters have problems here, a few chapters have excelled at all sorts of ways (vending machines, special events, tapping school revenues, etc.) of funding a wide variety of activities (student travel, service projects, scholarships, etc.). A survery of chapters might yield a useful study and manual on effective fundraising.
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Learning disabled? How many Psi Chi members are diagnosed as LD, and thus underpredicted by standardized tests like the SAT or GRE? This question came up during a Psi Chi session at APA. Perhaps a call for information in Eye on Psi Chi or some other method can collect survey information for a report with potentially groundbreaking implications on what some suggest is a "hidden" problem.
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Chapters? How many current Psi Chi chapters are a) undergraduate only? (b) graduate students only? (c) both undergraduate students and graduate students? Is there much difference between these three types of chapters, and how do chapters promote harmonious relations within "mixed" chapters?
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Nonmember schools? Members of newly chartered Psi Chi chapters often comment that they wish their school had applied for a charter years earlier. Why do these nonmember schools fail for so long to apply for a Psi Chi chapter?
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