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Direct linkVittengl, Jeffrey R.; Vittengl, Karen L. – Teaching of Psychology, 2022
Background: Acquisition and generalization of data analysis skills are perennial challenges for psychology students. Teaching advanced data analysis in a psychology-specific context might improve students' learning. Objective: At a mid-sized public university, we evaluated student outcomes after a new quantitative psychology course taught in the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Data Analysis, Generalization, Psychology
Wesp, Richard; Miele, Joseph – Teaching of Psychology, 2008
As universities increase expectations for evidence of student learning, journals like "Teaching of Psychology (ToP)" have come to expect outcome data from authors describing teaching techniques. Our comparison of ToP articles published in 1996 and 2006 showed a significant decrease in reliance on student opinion and an increase in the use of more…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Student Attitudes, Learning Activities, Opinions
Heath, Nicole M.; Lawyer, Steven R.; Rasmussen, Erin B. – Teaching of Psychology, 2007
Our study compared the quantitative and qualitative outcomes associated with course evaluations collected over the Internet with those collected using a paper-and-pencil method. We randomly assigned students to 1 of the 2 different formats. There was no significant difference in quantitative student responses based on administration method, but…
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, Data Collection, Internet, Paper (Material)
Peer reviewedThompson, W. Burt – Teaching of Psychology, 2000
Describes an activity in which students engage in a size comparison task that replicates the symbolic distance effect: when comparing two imagined objects it takes longer to determine which one is larger if the objects have a small size difference. States that the activity can be used to introduce imagery research. (CMK)
Descriptors: Animals, Class Activities, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis
Katayama, Andrew D.; Shambaugh, R. Neal; Doctor, Tasneem – Teaching of Psychology, 2005
We investigated the differences between (a) copying and pasting text versus typed note-taking methods of constructing study notes simultaneously with (b) vertically scaffolded versus horizontally scaffold notes on knowledge transfer. Forty-seven undergraduate educational psychology students participated. Materials included 2 electronic…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Notetaking, Retention (Psychology), Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedLeong, Frederick T. L.; Poynter, Mary Ann – Teaching of Psychology, 1991
Examines the presentation of counseling and clinical psychology in introductory psychology textbooks. Finds their representation to be generally consistent with empirical data. Notes the shift in the representation of counseling between the 1970s and the 1980s. States textbooks formerly provided more coverage of clinical psychology than…
Descriptors: Clinical Psychology, Comparative Analysis, Counseling, Counselor Training
