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Carroll, David W. – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2013
History of psychology students wrote essays about historical figures and counterfactual events. A linguistic analysis of the essays revealed that counterfactual assignments included more auxiliary verbs and more references to tentativeness and the future. More important, scores on the counterfactual assignments but not the historical figure…
Descriptors: College Students, College Seniors, Psychology, History
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Landrum, R. Eric; Gurung, Regan A. R. – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2013
When students are given a period or window of time to take an exam, is taking an exam earlier in the window (high latency to deadline) related to test scores? In Study 1, students (n = 236) were given windows of time to take online each of 13 quizzes and 4 exams. In Study 2, students (n = 251) similarly took 4 exams online within a test window. In…
Descriptors: Scores, Time, Tests, Predictor Variables