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Offering a Careers Course in Psychology Opportunities and Challenges
How many times has a student said to you… o I just declared Psychology as my major. What can I do with it? o How do I get into grad school? o Is a school
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Asking Perceptive Questions Is Crucial to Students’ Critical Thinking
I would add an eighth guideline to D. Alan Beasley’s “A Brief Guide for Teaching and Assessing Critical Thinking in Psychology,” from the December 2010 Observer: developing students’ abilities to ask perceptive questions. As teachers, we spend
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How To Be a Good Mentee
Mentoring relationships are the bedrock on which much of higher education is built. Mentoring reflects a relationship between an experienced senior colleague (mentor) and a less experienced junior colleague or student (mentee), in which the
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Need a Break? Depends on Your Concept of Willpower
Do you ever find yourself burning the candle at both ends? Friends may tell you to slow down or take a break but new findings, published in Psychological Science, challenge the long-held theory that willpower
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Working With Undergraduate Research Assistants: Setting Up and Maintaining a Research Laboratory
Let us imagine two hypothetical psychology laboratories, in need of new research assistants. Dr. Eager and Dr. Careful are both new professors in psychology, and from the day they are hired, they begin receiving e-mails
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How Teaching Makes a Difference in Students’ Lives
Professor Excellent and Professor Good both work in the same psychology department at a medium-sized state university. In fact, they were hired the same year and are now in their third year as assistant professors.
