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Holliman, Andrew J.; Rosenkranz, Patrick; Jones, Tim – Psychology Teaching Review, 2020
Identifying a topic for a dissertation is widely considered to be one of the most important, challenging, and stressful parts of the research process. Students often find it difficult to navigate this early yet pivotal stage due to heightened pressures, a lack of structural guidance, increased independence, and more pressing time constraints. In…
Descriptors: Theses, Concept Mapping, College Students, Program Development
Holliman, Andrew J.; Jones, Tim – Psychology Teaching Review, 2018
Identifying a 'promising' topic for a psychology dissertation is widely recognised as one of the most important, challenging, and stressful parts of the research process. Students are required to work in a relatively unstructured way (compared with other modules) to independently identify a topic that is not only appropriate, of personal interest,…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Supervision, Supervisors, College Faculty
Wilkinson, Dean J.; Jones, Tim – Psychology Teaching Review, 2017
Higher education institutions want to develop rounded, independent learners equipped with the required skills to embrace the challenges of post-graduation (European Commission, 2013). Vygotsky suggests learners are interdependent, born as social beings with emotional intelligence. Experiential learning is created by direct participation in life…
Descriptors: Psychology, Student Experience, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Experiential Learning
Catling, Jonathan; Mason, Victoria; Jones, Tim – Psychology Teaching Review, 2013
Undergraduate students may succeed or fail within their studies for a myriad of different reasons. Within this exploratory study we assess some of the academic, psychosocial and demographic predictors of student attainment. Using a questionnaire, first-year psychology undergraduates were assessed for a number of demographic, socioeconomic,…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Undergraduate Students, Psychology, Academic Achievement
Jones, Tim; Upton, Penney; Wilkinson, Dean J. – Psychology Teaching Review, 2013
The challenges facing UK higher education are both well documented and controversial; however, pitted against this context is the requirement for psychology departments to provide an increasingly rich and diverse university experience for students, whilst ensuring progression and retention remain central to undergraduate provision. Despite the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Orientation, Undergraduate Students, Satisfaction
Mercer, Jenny; Sander, Paul; Williams, Stella; Jones, Tim – Psychology Teaching Review, 2013
It is well established that the number of males studying psychology in the UK, both at A-level and on degree courses, is disproportionately low compared to females. There is a paucity of research, however, which discusses how psychology is viewed by this group. The present study employed focus groups with 35 pre-tertiary males (some of whom were…
Descriptors: Males, Student Attitudes, Psychology, Foreign Countries
Jones, Tim – Psychology Teaching Review, 2012
In responding to Hartley (2011), this paper considers his concluding remarks as recommendations for the future of teaching undergraduate psychology and challenges the position that the teaching of psychology hasn't altered vastly during the last 50 years. In doing so, it is acknowledged that the content and delivery of higher education psychology…
Descriptors: Psychology, Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Students, Student Motivation