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But I Really Tried!
“But I really tried!” is a refrain teachers often hear from students who do not get the grades they feel they deserve. Growing up, our students heard that hard work leads to positive outcomes and
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Graphing Literacy in the Psychology Major
Figure 1. Florence Nightingale’s Polar Area (often referred to as the cox comb) graph depicted “The Causes of Mortality in the Army in the East” in the years 1854-55. The twelve sections represent the months
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Ethics in the Introduction to Psychology Course
The introductory psychology course is usually the students’ first formal introduction to the field, and for some it is the only formal academic view of psychology they will ever have. As students start to structure
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Teaching Graduate Students How to Write Clearly
Almost every English boy can be taught to write clearly, so far at least as clearness depends upon the arrangement of words. Force, elegance, and variety of style are more difficult to teach, and far
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From Psychobabble and Gobbledygook to Improved Vocabularies and Substantial Lexis
vo·cab·u·lary: 1 : a list or collection of words or of words and phrases usually alphabetically arranged and explained or defined 2 : a sum or stock of words employed by a language, group, individual
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An Open Letter to Scholarship of Teaching Presenters
Dear Presenters, I’m your biggest fan and your worst critic. You see, like most instructors in academia, the majority of my work revolves around teaching. Given my predilection towards teaching and teaching-related activities, I often
