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Asking Questions: Promoting student-faculty interchange in the classroom
Remember how, as a student listening to a lecture, your attention drifted between the words of the professor and sundry personal thoughts? A particular class might have been uneventful had not the speaker suddenly changed
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A Self-Correcting Approach to Multiple Choice Tests
When you were a student, did you have any of the following experiences? You dreaded taking multiple-choice tests. You thought of the right answer after you had handed in the test. You never went over
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The 10 Commandments of Helping Students Distinguish Science from Pseudoscience in Psychology
“Professor Schlockenmeister, I know that we have to learn about visual perception in your course, but aren’t we going to learn anything about extrasensory perception? My high school psychology teacher told us that there was
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Dealing With Students Missing Exams and In-Class Graded Assignments
Teachers often become more aware of students’ out-of-class activities than they might wish. Announcements and memos from the dean of students inform about sporting teams and their games and tournaments, forensics, service learning conferences, community-based
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A Developmental Strategy to Write Effective Letters of Recommendation
In The Complete Guide to Graduate School Admissions, Keith-Spiegel and Wiederman (2000, p. 175) state that letters of recommendation “are taken very seriously, and sometimes are as important as grades and test scores.” This statement
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Teaching Biology in a Psychology Class
Admit it, you don’t like teaching biology in your psychology class. It’s not that it’s unimportant, but reading and talking about it can be so … well, not fun. Many of us who teach psychology
