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Fairchild, Halford H. – 1983
This paper examines two strategies for the teaching of Black Psychology. The first strategy is designed for use in undergraduate and graduate seminars. It relies on a course structure that requires each student to complete a weekly reading assignment, to give an oral abstract to the rest of the seminar, and to write a weekly thought paper on a…
Descriptors: Black Culture, College Students, Evaluation Criteria, Higher Education
Clements, Andrea D. – 1991
This study was designed to demonstrate whether students attain a higher level of learning when they are required to synthesize information through a process of inquiry and believe they will be evaluated with essay questions. The control section of an introductory educational psychology class was taught about accommodating student differences,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Education Courses, Education Majors, Educational Psychology
Chang, Chun-Yen; Mao, Song-Ling – 1998
This study examined the effects of an inquiry-based instructional method on secondary school students' achievement in earth science. Students (N=232) were treated as two experimental groups, one receiving 2 weeks of the inquiry-based instruction while the control group received the traditional lecture-type instruction. Data were analyzed employing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Action Research, Earth Science
Root, Jon R.; Gall, Meredith D. – 1979
A study was conducted to determine whether conventional instruction and mastery-based auto-tutorial instruction interacted with learning characteristics that were found to be instruction-interactive in previous research. Conventional instruction consisted of lecture with discussion and laboratory periods. The mastery-based auto-tutorial…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cognitive Style, College Instruction, Comparative Analysis