document: Teaching psychology as a laboratory science in the age of the Internet For over 30 years , psychologists have relied on computers to teach experimental psychology . With the advent of experiment generators , students can create well-designed experiments and can test sophisticated hypotheses from the start of their undergraduate training . Characteristics of new Net-based experiment generators are discussed and compared with traditional stand-alone generators . A call is made to formally evaluate the instructional effectiveness of the wide range of experiment generators now available . Specifically , software should be evaluated in terms of known learning outcomes , using appropriate control groups . The many inherent differences between any two software programs should be made clear . The teacher 's instructional method should be fully described and held constant between comparisons . Finally , the often complex interaction between the teacher 's instructional method and the pedagogical details of the software must be considered
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