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Richard Harris; Pam Birtill; Madeleine Pownall – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2024
Psychological literacy is an approach to teaching which encourages students to consider their subject knowledge in 'real world' applied contexts (i.e. in student's lives beyond university), which may be professional, personal, or societal. 'Real world' here refers to the application of psychological knowledge and skills to students' personal,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Psychological Studies, Global Approach
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Shiri Einav; Alexa Spence; Laura E. R. Blackie; Sarah Cassidy; Harriet A. Allen – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2024
Psychological literacy refers to the ability of a psychology student to use psychological knowledge, rather than merely "learn" it, in the context of personal, social, and organizational issues. Embedding psychological literacy in assessment is a critical step in helping students develop this capacity. This report presents an innovative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Psychology, Psychological Studies
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Victoria L. Cross; Megan N. Imundo; Courtney M. Clark; Melissa Paquette-Smith – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2024
Learning to interpret visual representations of data is an important step towards becoming an informed consumer of research. The current study assesses the effectiveness of two versions of a scaffolded online module in improving students' ability to identify main effects and interactions in 2 × 2 factorial designs. Across two experiments (N =…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Cooperative Learning, Statistics Education, Psychology
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Todd, Valerie J.; McIlroy, David – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2014
There has been considerable criticism of assessment methods because of inconsistencies across modules and a focus on the measurement of learning rather than assessment for learning. The aim of the current study was to formalise the process of assessment feedback to feed-forward, and assess the impact on student learning. A cohort of undergraduate…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Learning Processes, Evaluation Methods, Undergraduate Students
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Drechsel, Barbara; Breunig, Katharina; Thurn, Daniela; Basten, Johanna – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2014
The report portrays a theory-practice psychology course on reading education in a German teacher education programme. Having completed a theoretical course phase that is largely based on knowledge from cognitive and educational psychology, pre-service student-teachers applied their acquired knowledge by working with a fifth-grader in five…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Instruction, Teacher Education Programs, Higher Education
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Kaye, Helen; Barrett, Jane P.; Knightley, Wendy M. – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2013
Psychology students at the Open University (OU) can choose whether to complete their project work at residential school or by participating in an online equivalent. This study identifies different factors governing module choice and student experience: When choosing residential school, social aspects are important, whereas for online, students are…
Descriptors: Psychology, Preferences, Student Attitudes, Student Projects