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Moradi, Bonnie; Yoder, Janice D. – Teaching of Psychology, 2001
Describes a class exercise where students in three different courses wrote ten responses to the question "Who am I?", in order to increase their understanding of social constructionism. Reveals that students accurately identified the gender of most respondents and saw this as a useful exercise to help them understand social constructionism. (CMK)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Course Content, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Educational Research
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Ruscio, John – Teaching of Psychology, 2001
Describes a system that involves randomly administered quizzes and offers suggestions for its implementation in classes of any size. Presents data in support of the effectiveness of this technique stating that students completed their assigned reading at impressive rates when motivated by randomly administered quizzes. (CMK)
Descriptors: Course Content, Educational Research, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness
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Wang, Alvin Y.; Newlin, Michael H.; Tucker, Travis L. – Teaching of Psychology, 2001
Presents a study that applied a discourse analysis (DA) to the electronic discussion of a 16-week Internet-based section of a class in statistical methods in psychology. Reveals that several DA categories were related to the final course grade. Discusses the implications of the results. (CMK)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Course Content, Discourse Analysis, Educational Research
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Desrochers, Marcie N.; House, Anna M.; Seth, Puja – Teaching of Psychology, 2001
Evaluates Simulations in Developmental Disabilities (SIDD), a multimedia software program, that provides students with practice in behavioral assessment and treatment decisions for persons with developmental disabilities. Explains that students in the experimental group received instruction with SIDD following a lecture on clinical strategies.…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Developmental Disabilities, Educational Research
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Budesheim, Thomas Lee; Lundquist, Arlene R. – Teaching of Psychology, 1999
Examines whether students engage in biased assimilation during in-class debates. Finds that biased assimilation only occurs when the student is arguing for her or his existing position on an issue. Concludes that, in order to eliminate biased assimilation, teachers should encourage students to debate the opposite position of their preconceived…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Audience Response, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Debate
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Landrum, R. Eric – Teaching of Psychology, 1999
Presents an interview with Wilbert J. McKeachie who is a professor in the Department of Psychology and a Research Scientist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Discusses topics that include, but are not limited to, student-centered teaching, issues current researchers need to address, and the role of technology in teaching. (CMK)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Cooperative Learning, Distance Education, Educational Research
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Scialfa, Charles; Legare, Connie; Wenger, Larry; Dingley, Louis – Teaching of Psychology, 2001
Analyzes multiple-choice questions provided in test banks for introductory psychology textbooks. Study 1 offered a consistent picture of the objective difficulty of multiple-choice tests for introductory psychology students, while both studies 1 and 2 indicated that test items taken from commercial test banks have poor psychometric properties.…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Educational Research, Higher Education, Introductory Courses
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Hurlburt, Russell T. – Teaching of Psychology, 2001
Explains that a lectlet is a short Web streamed-audio lecture synchronized to an interactive text-graphics display. Compares lectlet-based distance education to traditional education by simultaneously teaching two courses (one lectlet-based, one traditional) of introductory statistics. Reveals that the lectlets were better than the traditional…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Course Content, Distance Education, Educational Research
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Hull, Debra B. – Teaching of Psychology, 2001
Describes a method for assessing student attitudes toward studying international psychology. States that 33 seniors participated in a seminar course in which they took a pretest, wrote and presented information on a country, and then took a posttest. Reveals that five months after the course students' attitudes improved significantly. (CMK)
Descriptors: College Seniors, Course Content, Educational Research, Global Approach