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Direct linkR. Eric Landrum; Leslie D. Cramblet Alvarez; K. Nicole Jones; Laura Burton – Teaching of Psychology, 2024
Background: Graduate admissions in psychology continue to be a popular and competitive venture, with the demand for new graduate student opportunities exceeding the annual supply. Objective: Our present work was a partial replication and extension of Appleby and Appleby (2006). We added closed- and open-ended questions regarding social media to…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Admissions Officers, Admissions Counseling, College Applicants
Bensley, D. Alan; Lilienfeld, Scott O. – Teaching of Psychology, 2015
Studies of psychological misconceptions have often used tests with methodological shortcomings, unknown psychometric properties, and ad hoc methods for identifying misconceptions, creating problems for estimating frequencies of specific misconceptions. To address these problems, we developed a new test, the Test of Psychological Knowledge and…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Psychological Patterns, Psychometrics, Attitude Measures
Jorgensen, Terrence D.; Marek, Pam – Teaching of Psychology, 2013
To determine the effectiveness of 20- to 30-min workshops on recognition of errors in American Psychological Association-style writing, 58 introductory psychology students attended one of the three workshops (on grammar, mechanics, or references) and completed error recognition tests (pretest, initial posttest, and three follow-up tests). As a…
Descriptors: Workshops, Program Effectiveness, Error Patterns, Writing (Composition)
Peer reviewedRossi, Joseph S. – Teaching of Psychology, 1987
Reports a class exercise which requires students to recalculate the Chi-squares, t-tests, and one-way ANOVAs found in published psychological research articles. Describes students' reaction to the exercise and provides data on the 13% error rate they discovered. (Author/JDH)
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Higher Education, Learning Activities, Psychology
