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Direct linkHamaoui, Kamil G. – Teaching of Psychology, 2023
Background: Critical thinking is an important student learning outcome in all psychology courses and included in the American Psychological Association's (APA's) goals for the undergraduate major. Objective: The purpose of this study was to test the effectiveness of integrating a general model of critical thinking into the instruction,…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Teaching Methods, Active Learning, Assignments
Koch, Mary Kate; Mendle, Jane – Teaching of Psychology, 2023
Background: Incorporating professional development into undergraduate psychology coursework is an ongoing area of improvement for educators. Objective: We present a novel activity encouraging students to explore various professional skills and roles for which their psychology major prepares them through application to real-world issues. Method:…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Developmental Psychology, Majors (Students), Professional Development
Álvarez Valdivia, Ibis M.; Lafuente Martínez, Marc – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2019
Improving preservice teachers' argumentative competence is a social and educational imperative. This study focuses on the contribution of a sequence of learning tasks, designed as epistemic practices and following a learning progression approach, to enhancing student teachers' scientific argumentative writing. The participants were 47 preservice…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Persuasive Discourse, Elementary School Teachers, Writing (Composition)
Engbers, Trent A – Teaching Public Administration, 2016
The teaching of research methods has been at the core of public administration education for almost 30 years. But since 1990, this journal has published only two articles on the teaching of research methods. Given the increasing emphasis on data driven decision-making, greater insight is needed into the best practices for teaching public…
Descriptors: Public Administration Education, Political Science, Comparative Analysis, Teaching Methods
Gehring, Kathleen M.; Eastman, Deborah A. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2008
Many initiatives for the improvement of undergraduate science education call for inquiry-based learning that emphasizes investigative projects and reading of the primary literature. These approaches give students an understanding of science as a process and help them integrate content presented in courses. At the same time, general initiatives to…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Assignments, Inquiry, Program Effectiveness
Download full textDefeyter, Margaret Anne; McPartlin, Pamela Louise – Psychology Teaching Review, 2007
The aim of the study was to look at the effectiveness of combining a variety of teaching and learning methods in an attempt to facilitate students' understanding of assessment criteria. Fifty-three psychology students were asked to complete the mismatch exercise (Norton et al., 2002), and a booklet entitled "Your Assignment results and how to…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Criteria
