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Direct linkElizabeth L. Wetzler; Kenneth S. Cassidy; Margaret J. Jones; Chelsea R. Frazier; Nickalous A. Korbut; Chelsea M. Sims; Shari S. Bowen; Michael Wood – Teaching of Psychology, 2025
Background: Generative artificial intelligence (AI) represents a potentially powerful, time-saving tool for grading student essays. However, little is known about how AI-generated essay scores compare to human instructor scores. Objective: The purpose of this study was to compare the essay grading scores produced by AI with those of human…
Descriptors: Essays, Writing Evaluation, Scores, Evaluators
Leoniak, Krzysztof J.; Gazdowska, Zuzanna – Teaching of Psychology, 2023
Background: Persuasion Wars are exercises for teaching social influence that have not been directly assessed with the use of students' knowledge gain as an indicator. Objective: This study aimed to establish the extent to which these exercises led to students' knowledge increase in comparison to traditional teaching method. Method: In a between…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Assignments, Social Influences, Teaching Methods
Darowski, Emily S.; Helder, Elizabeth; Patson, Nikole D. – Teaching of Psychology, 2022
Identifying effective and time-efficient approaches to teaching students how to write from scholarly sources benefits students and instructors. Students in a general psychology course learned a concrete method to improve this type of synthesis writing. The intervention was brief, consisting of viewing an online tutorial outside of class and…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Computer Assisted Instruction
Stevenson, Colleen M. – Teaching of Psychology, 2020
This study examined whether a low-stakes write-to-learn (WTL) assignment improved exam performance. Students in one section of a child development course completed five assignments during a semester, whereby they identified 15 key concepts and related them to six themes (e.g., nature and nurture). Students in another section did not. Students who…
Descriptors: Tests, Writing Assignments, Retention (Psychology), Scores
Goldman, Jacqueline; Heddy, Benjamin C.; Cavazos, Jenel – Teaching of Psychology, 2022
Background: First-generation (FG) college students have been a popular subpopulation to study within educational literature as these students experience many unique challenges in their academic careers causing them to drop out within their first year. This gives courses with high first-time freshman numbers such as introductory psychology courses…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, College Freshmen, Introductory Courses, Psychology
Stellmack, Mark A.; Sandidge, Rita R.; Sippl, Amy L.; Miller, Danneka J. – Teaching of Psychology, 2015
Previous research has shown that when students are required to submit a draft and a revision of their writing, large proportions of students do not improve across drafts. We implemented a writing assignment in which students were permitted to submit up to four optional drafts. To encourage substantive revisions, students were awarded additional…
Descriptors: Writing Improvement, Writing Instruction, Writing Processes, Revision (Written Composition)
Daniel, Frances; Gaze, Catherine M.; Braasch, Jason L. G. – Teaching of Psychology, 2015
We examined how writing cover letters to the instructor influenced final papers in research methods courses. After receiving instructor feedback on drafts of each section of an American Psychological Association style research paper throughout the semester, students in two classes wrote cover letters to the instructor explaining how the instructor…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Methods Courses, Feedback (Response), Writing Improvement
Roscoe, Lauren J.; McMahan, Ethan A. – Teaching of Psychology, 2014
University career courses have become a more standard offering at many colleges and universities over the past few decades. Similarly, there has been an increase in the number of psychology departments offering a careers course for psychology majors or an introduction to the psychology major course. This study examines the outcomes of a course…
Descriptors: Psychology, Majors (Students), Introductory Courses, Undergraduate Students
Campbell, David E. – Teaching of Psychology, 2014
Social presence (represented by salience of instructor and fellow students) in an online teaching environment has been shown to influence perceptions of course activity and self-estimates of learning. An experiment is described here in which teacher presence is manipulated via personalized messages from the teaching assistant throughout the…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Teacher Student Relationship, Teacher Behavior, Critical Thinking
Doe, Sue R.; Gingerich, Karla J.; Richards, Tracy L. – Teaching of Psychology, 2013
This study explored graduate teaching assistant (GTA) grading on 480 papers across two writing assignments as integrated into large Introductory Psychology courses. We measured GTA accuracy, consistency, and commenting (feedback) quality. Results indicate that GTA graders improved, although unevenly, in accuracy and consistency from Time 1 to 2…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Feedback (Response), Grading, Introductory Courses
Malouff, John M.; Emmerton, Ashley J.; Schutte, Nicola S. – Teaching of Psychology, 2013
Experts have advocated anonymous grading as a means of eliminating actual or perceived evaluator bias in subjective student assessment. The utility of anonymity in assessment rests on whether information derived from student identity can unduly influence evaluation. The halo effect provides a conceptual background for why a bias might occur. In…
Descriptors: Grading, Psychology, College Faculty, Teaching Assistants
Sappington, John; Kinsey, Kimberly; Munsayac, Kirk – Teaching of Psychology, 2002
College students resist required reading assignments. Likewise, faculty are reluctant to quiz on reading assignments for fear of evoking disapproval. Measurement of reading compliance allows instructors to demonstrate a connection between reading preparation and subsequent success on final exams. The first study suggested that self-reports of…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Reading Assignments, College Students, Teacher Effectiveness
