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Direct linkMonika Stelzl; Lynnee M. R. Pevie – Experiential Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
In this collaborative professor-student contribution, an experiential nature-based university psychology course is described and discussed. Existing scholarship on experiential environmental education informed the course, with the overall aim of educating the "whole student". Experiential environmental education has been identified as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Undergraduate Students, Environmental Education
Download full textda Silva, Stephanie; White, Katherine – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2021
Research methods course(s), a standard in psychology programs, often use multiple textbooks to address conceptual and data-analytic information. This study involved transitioning from traditional textbooks to open educational resources in a research methods course. Two psychology instructors, each offering course sections, identified open-access…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Courses, Research Methodology, Psychology
Whitehead, Patrick M. – International Research and Review, 2022
The author, a psychology instructor at an American university, describes the internationalization of his course in Human Growth and Development. The author argues that human development cannot be easily summarized by nature (i.e., biological and evolutionary predisposition) or nurture (i.e., learning through environment and experience).…
Descriptors: International Education, College Faculty, Psychology, Course Descriptions
Stehle, Sebastian; Spinath, Birgit – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2014
In this study the relationship between intended course objectives and teaching effectiveness was investigated. Teaching effectiveness was indexed through student evaluations of teaching (SETs) and lecturer self-evaluations (LSEs), with a focus on course evaluation. Rated learning of intended course objectives was derived by two parallel…
Descriptors: Psychology, Instructional Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Course Objectives
Parish, Thomas S.; Swenka, Jobyna J. – Education, 2007
What is "General Psychology?" Is it just one course that could be an elective, part of a minor, or part of a student's major? Or could "General Psychology" literally be the "corner stone" or "foundation block" upon which all the other psychology courses, taken afterwards, add to like bricks upon a "foundation block?" This paper will seek to…
Descriptors: Psychology, Etiology, Introductory Courses, Course Descriptions
Landrum, R. Eric; Mulcock, Stephen D. – Teaching of Psychology, 2007
We obtained data from pre- and postcourse questionnaires given in an Introduction to the Psychology Major course taught for 10 semesters and compared these data with institutional outcomes concerning the students' last known major and their graduation status. We found the questionnaire reliably measured (a) vocational identity, (b) knowledge of…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Psychology, College Outcomes Assessment, Pretests Posttests
