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Mentoring in Directed Independent Study
Most of us can remember having had one or more good teachers during our education ― individuals who made learning fun, memorable, or easy. A lucky few of us, however, have had a mentor, a
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Champions of Psychology: Cynthia García Coll
Cynthia García Coll is the Charles Pitts Robinson and John Palmer Barstow Professor of Education, Psychology and Pediatrics at Brown University. Her research focuses on sociocultural and biological influences on child development, with particular emphasis
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Distance Learning The Old Fashioned Way: Taking Class Outside the Classroom
Psychology classes have little trouble attracting the attention of students as evidenced by the fact that general psychology courses are typically the largest classes in the curriculum. General psychology has strong appeal because the course
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Where Are Nearly Half of Undergraduates Initially Exposed to Psychology?
Researchers estimate that approximately 500,000 community college students enroll in various psychology courses each year in the United States (Johnson & Rudmann, 2004). “Most students at four year schools — most people for that matter
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How Technology is Changing How We Teach Psychology
Just as psychology is an evolving science, the conditions under which we teach our discipline are also continually changing. Effective introductory psychology teachers must not only keep abreast of changes in their subject matter, they
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Major Developments in Undergraduate Psychology
It’s a field that is misunderstood by a lot of people. Practitioners are thought to be mind-readers and researchers are thought to be practitioners. But for a subject that is so misunderstood, psychology certainly is
