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A Comparison of Active Student Responding Modalities in a General Psychology Course
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Zayac, Ryan M.; Ratkos, Thom; Frieder, Jessica E.; Paulk, Amber – Teaching of Psychology, 2016
Research on teaching has shown that incorporating active student responding (ASR) into classroom instruction facilitates learning and should be considered best practice. Nevertheless, few published studies have examined ASR using a within-participant design across a semester. Using a counterbalanced alternating treatment design, a direct…
Descriptors: Audience Response Systems, Undergraduate Students, Psychology, Comparative Analysis
A Hands-On Exercise Improves Understanding of the Standard Error of the Mean
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Ryan, Robert S. – Teaching of Psychology, 2006
One of the most difficult concepts for statistics students is the standard error of the mean. To improve understanding of this concept, 1 group of students used a hands-on procedure to sample from small populations representing either a true or false null hypothesis. The distribution of 120 sample means (n = 3) from each population had standard…
Descriptors: Statistics, Error of Measurement, Experiential Learning, Hypothesis Testing
Guiding Questions Enhance Student Learning from Educational Videos
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Lawson, Timothy J.; Bodle, James H.; Houlette, Melissa A.; Haubner, Richard R. – Teaching of Psychology, 2006
We tested a procedure designed to enhance psychology students' learning from educational videos. Introductory psychology students (N = 127) watched a video about social psychology during a regular class session. Students in some sections of the course watched the video with no special instructions; students in other sections answered 8 guiding…
Descriptors: Social Psychology, Introductory Courses, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology