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Lessons Learned in 60 Years of Teaching, Research, and Learning: Wilbert McKeachie’s APS Award Address
McKeachie For his James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award Address at the 2009 APS Convention, Bill McKeachie chose to be interviewed rather than to deliver a traditional lecture. In preparing for the interview, I gathered questions
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Getting Outside Myself to Help the Thai People
APS Fellow Bruce Svare reflects on his time in Thailand Those of us in higher education have a tendency to develop tunnel vision and become overly focused on our professional careers as scientists. When world
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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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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.
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Mentoring in Directed Independent Study
Most of us can remember having had one or more good teachers during our education ― individuals who made learning fun, memorable, or easy. A lucky few of us, however, have had a mentor, a
