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Balch, William R. – Teaching of Psychology, 2015
In a classroom experiment during the first week of an introductory psychology course, randomly assigned students received a pretest and then a brief training on the definitions of general-vocabulary words either related (e.g., "facilitation") or unrelated (e.g., "rendition") to 16 technical terms (e.g., "social…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Vocabulary Skills, Jargon, Transfer of Training
Pinter, Brad; Matchock, Robert L.; Charles, Eric P.; Balch, William R. – Teaching of Psychology, 2014
Three groups of undergraduates (42 senior graduating psychology majors, 27 first-year premajors taking introductory psychology, and 24 first-year, high-performing nonmajors taking introductory psychology) completed the Psychology Major Field Test (MFT) and a short-answer (SA) essay test on reasoning about core knowledge in psychology. Graduating…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Standardized Tests, Performance Based Assessment, Psychology
Balch, William R. – Teaching of Psychology, 2014
To evaluate a demonstration involving active and cooperative learning, 40 students in a cognitive psychology course and 132 students in an introductory psychology course completed a brief multiple-choice pretest on referential communication. Two days later, randomly assigned students either participated in a classroom referential communication…
Descriptors: Psychology, College Students, Active Learning, Cooperative Learning
Balch, William R. – Teaching of Psychology, 2012
On their first class day, introductory psychology students took a 14-question multiple-choice pretest on several principles of memory including primacy, recency, storage, retrieval, counterbalancing, and the free-recall method. I randomly preassigned students to come at one of two different times to the second class, 2 days later, when they either…
Descriptors: Demonstrations (Educational), Lecture Method, Recall (Psychology), Introductory Courses
Balch, William R. – Teaching of Psychology, 2010
To determine whether a classroom experiment improved the learning of experimental method, at the start of the semester 2 introductory psychology classes took a 10-question multiple-choice pretest on experimental method. Two days later, before the instructor covered the relevant material in the course, 1 class took part in a classroom experiment on…
Descriptors: Pretests Posttests, Psychology, Lecture Method, Experiments