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Travel Grant to South Africa for the 30th International Congress of Psychology
The APA-USNC International Travel and Mentoring Program for US scholars announces a call for applications to attend the 30th International Congress of Psychology held in Cape Town, South Africa from July 22-27, 2012. The goal
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14th Annual Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Educational Research
The 14th Annual Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Educational Research will be held November 1-6, 2011 at Hutchinson Island, Florida. For more information visit: http://www.aaer.org/newsandevents.html
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Wikipedia Entries
In the spring of 2009, I first assigned students in my graduate research methods class to either write a new Wikipedia entry or revise an existing one. My rationale was, like it or not, many
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‘Teacher, I May Not Do Well on the Test Next Week Because I May Have to Babysit My Sister’
After reminding students about an upcoming Introduction to Psychology exam a student approached me and asked, “Teacher, I may not do well on the test next week because I may have to babysit my sister.”
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Learning-Styles Theory Questioned By Researchers
Huffington Post: For years, the conventional wisdom has been that everyone has a different dominant way of learning. Some are visual learners who prefer studying pictures or graphics. Some say they are auditory learners, absorbing
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Rambert Dance Company: Dance cosies up to science
The Telegraph: The gap between science and the humanities, as identified in C P Snow’s celebrated lecture The Two Cultures, has in recent years been conscientiously bridged: Ian McEwan writes a novel about global warming, while
