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Those Who Can, Teach
When Elliot Aronson was a student, he had a recurring nightmare in which, at the end of a semester, he realized he had registered for a course and forgot about it until the afternoon of
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Using Evolution By Natural Selection as an Integrative Theme in Psychology Courses
Many who teach the introductory course bemoan the enormous breadth and diversity of our field. How, we ask, can we present psychology in an organized fashion, not as just a hodgepodge of facts and theories?
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Improving Your Students’ Writing: Arts and Drafts
More and more psychology instructors are having students write multiple drafts of research papers. This process leads to better final papers and is closer to what psychologists do when they write their own scientific work.
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Cheating: Preventing and Dealing with Academic Dishonesty
Someday it will happen to you. A student will turn in such an excellent, well-written paper that you seriously doubt its authenticity. Or, during a test, you will look up and find a student copying
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The Use of Extra Credit in Teaching
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How to Create a Good Exam
