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Direct linkSibulkin, Amy E.; Butler, J. S. – Teaching of Psychology, 2019
After explicit instruction on how to give possible bidirectional (two-way) causality explanations for a correlation, 240 students from eight sections of social psychology and research methods courses wrote "reverse causality" explanations on various test questions, creating a total of 882 answers. Averaging across multiple graded…
Descriptors: Correlation, Causal Models, Research Methodology, Social Psychology
Sibulkin, Amy E.; Butler, J. S. – Teaching of Psychology, 2016
A sample of predominantly African American psychology major baccalaureates from a historically Black university self-reported job types, salaries, and master's degree completion. For this pre-2009 recession sample, we found that (a) the rates of employment were quite high; (b) most jobs were related to health, mental health, social work, and…
Descriptors: College Graduates, African American Students, Black Colleges, Universities
Reich, Catherine M.; Howard Sharp, Katianne M.; Berman, Jeffrey S. – Teaching of Psychology, 2015
Despite attempts to engage students, undergraduate instructors are often challenged by low motivation among students to study outside of the classroom. The current study adapted motivational interviewing, which is often used with therapy clients ambivalent to change, to target college student motivation to study for exams. Findings indicated…
Descriptors: Intervention, Motivation Techniques, Undergraduate Students, College Faculty
Sibulkin, Amy E.; Butler, J. S. – Teaching of Psychology, 2015
We tracked a sample of primarily Black psychology baccalaureates' advanced degree enrollments and completions and estimated the association of those outcomes with summer research experience by merging three data sets: (a) summer research program participants, (b) a comparison group of alumni, mostly without summer research, and (c) degree…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Summer Programs, Psychology, Alumni
Sibulkin, Amy E.; Butler, J. S. – Teaching of Psychology, 2008
In order to consider whether a course in college algebra should be a prerequisite for taking psychology statistics, we recorded students' grades in elementary psychology statistics and in college algebra at a 4-year university. Students who earned credit in algebra prior to enrolling in statistics for the first time had a significantly higher mean…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Prerequisites, Psychology, Statistics
