Students in research methods courses, especially those taught in an intense format, might be hard pressed to actually conduct research studies due to logistics and time constraints. I describe the use of single-case research design and a personalized behavior project as an alternative research project for students in an undergraduate psychology…

Stresses the importance of teaching students to be good consumers of research problems and questions. Contends that students must be able not only to appreciate the questions that others ask, but also to produce research and research questions on their own. Provides activities that help promote both good consumers and producers. (CMK)

Describes the use of television in teaching introductory psychology, presents a brief survey of the techniques used, enrollment figures, an evaluation of the experience, the present status of the course, and suggestions for the future. (Author/JR)

Describes an evaluation instrument which measures student attitudes and misconceptions about college psychology. (JR)

Discusses the Programmed Achievement learning system in an introductory psychology course. This system is based on an instructional system of motivation and reward in which a crucial ingredient is the testing procedure. (Author/JR)

This article discusses a study undertaken to investigate validity and reliability of student evaluations of teachers. In the study, teaching assistants' evaluations of teacher performance were compared to student evaluations. Findings indicated a high correlation between student and teaching assistant ratings of teachers. (DB)

The purpose of this survey was to identify the statistics texts most frequently used by psychology departments and to see if a typical survey of textbooks used by a partial sample of psychology departments would be accurate in describing the entire sample of departments. Partial returns resulted in a meaningful error. (RM)

Offers a description of a learning module called "Reading the Research" that teaches students about empirical research. Presents the results of a formative evaluation with students in an experimental psychology course as well as an evaluation with students in an introductory psychology course. (CMK)