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Improving Classroom Performance by Challenging Student Misconceptions About Learning
In an overview of the preparedness of high school seniors for college level work, Kuh (2007) comes to conclusions familiar to many teachers. Most entering students are not adequately prepared either academically or in terms
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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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Incorporating Philosophy in Every Psychology Course and Why it Matters
Psychology undergraduate students often have the notion that philosophy is dead and gone. I say this because many of these same students have overtly voiced this view when I have attempted to introduce philosophical concepts
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Helping Failing Students: Part 2
In Part 1 of this essay (Buskist & Howard, 2009), we made a broad distinction between two types of failing students — those students who actively fail our classes and those students who passively fail
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Helping Failing Students: Part 1
Chris Keller is a hard working student. She never misses class, sits in the front row, and takes copious notes. She reads her text faithfully each week, completing her reading assignments well ahead of time.
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Grading Student Papers: Reducing Faculty Workload While Improving Feedback to Students
Most professors believe that clear and effective writing is important in all levels of psychology and in most of the professions for which we are training our students. And most professors give their students writing
