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Donald A. Saucier; Ashley A. Schiffer; Tucker L. Jones – Teaching of Psychology, 2024
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic made it difficult to proctor exams after the forced transition to remote teaching and learning. Objective: We evaluated students' experiences creating and answering their own exam items in an upper-level psychology course during the transition to remote teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Method:…
Descriptors: College Students, Psychology, COVID-19, Pandemics
Watson, Todd D. – Teaching of Psychology, 2022
Background: Student anxiety about statistics may lead to poorer learning outcomes. Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate an exercise designed to teach students in an introductory statistics class the principles of bivariate regression and to emphasize how statistical tools used by psychologists are also implemented in other fields.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach, Learning Activities, Feedback (Response)
Bebermeier, Sarah; Hagemann, Anne – Teaching of Psychology, 2019
We describe how students can be encouraged to actively review course contents on inferential statistics by creating application-oriented exercises and sample solutions on the basis of concrete and realistic research articles and their data. For evaluation purposes, we use students' reactions to the activity and investigate its effects on the final…
Descriptors: Statistics, Course Content, Statistical Inference, Learning Activities
Stansbury, Jessica A. – Teaching of Psychology, 2017
An interactive learning module was developed and implemented in a social psychology course to teach concepts of the "self" via self-exploration and game play using "The SIMS[superscript 3]." Students volunteered to play the computer video game throughout a 5-week summer session as a supplement to reading the chapter in the…
Descriptors: Social Psychology, Virtual Classrooms, Educational Games, Video Games
Simon-Dack, Stephanie L. – Teaching of Psychology, 2014
For this simple active learning technique for teaching, students are assigned "roles" and act out the process of the action potential (AP), including the firing threshold, ion-specific channels for ions to enter and leave the cell, diffusion, and the refractory period. Pre-post test results indicated that students demonstrated increased…
Descriptors: Active Learning, College Students, Biology, Psychology
Karazsia, Bryan T. – Teaching of Psychology, 2013
Quantitative and statistical literacy are core domains in the undergraduate psychology curriculum. An important component of such literacy includes interpretation of visual aids, such as tables containing results from statistical analyses. This article presents a new technique for enhancing student interpretation of American Psychological…
Descriptors: Tables (Data), Data Interpretation, Undergraduate Students, Psychology
Daniel, Frances; Braasch, Jason L. G. – Teaching of Psychology, 2013
The present research investigated whether real-world application exercises promoted students' abilities to spontaneously transfer statistical knowledge and to recognize the use of statistics in real-world contexts. Over the course of a semester of psychological statistics, two classes completed multiple application exercises designed to mimic…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Statistics, Psychology, Learning Activities
Warren, Cortney S. – Teaching of Psychology, 2006
Many scholars agree that educators must incorporate multiculturalism into the curriculum of all undergraduate psychology students. I designed 3 easy-to-use activities that reinforce why multicultural factors are critical to consider in psychology. Using intelligence testing as a platform, these activities highlight issues of language, cultural…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Intelligence Tests, Active Learning, Psychology

Nichols, Joe D. – Teaching of Psychology, 2002
Describes a class demonstration in which students learn about Jean Piaget's concepts of schemata, assimilation, accommodation, and equilibration. Explains that students work in pairs (but cannot see one another) where one teaches the other how to make a duplicate of an already constructed block model. (CMK)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Class Activities, Educational Strategies, Higher Education

Haws, LaDawn; Oppy, Brian J. – Teaching of Psychology, 2002
Presents activities to help students gain understanding about auditory perception. Describes demonstrations that cover topics, such as sound localization, wave cancellation, frequency/pitch variation, and the influence of media on sound propagation. (CMK)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Auditory Perception, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education

Perkins, David V.; Saris, Renee N. – Teaching of Psychology, 2001
Describes an activity called the jigsaw classroom technique for use with working groups of undergraduate statistics students that divides a worksheet into two to four steps. Reveals that the students viewed the technique positively because it helped them understand statistical procedure and offered a variety of learning experiences. (CMK)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Educational Benefits, Educational Strategies, Group Activities

Leonard, Julie A.; Mitchell, Kirsten L.; Meyers, Steven A.; Love, Jacqueline D. – Teaching of Psychology, 2002
Discusses the use of case studies to teach students in introductory psychology courses. Explains the process of using this active learning strategy. Includes how the teacher should create the case study to meet the types of questions that should accompany the case study. (CMK)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Course Content, Educational Strategies

Ware, Mark E.; Badura, Amy S.; Davis, Stephen F. – Teaching of Psychology, 2002
Focuses on the use of student publications in journals as a teaching tool. Explores the use of this technique in three contexts: (1) enabling students to understand experimental methodology; (2) teaching students about statistics; and (3) helping students learn more about the American Psychological Association (APA) writing style. (CMK)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Critical Thinking, Educational Strategies, Higher Education

Lawson, Timothy J. – Teaching of Psychology, 1995
Presents 13 active-learning activities designed for use in consumer behavior courses. The exercises involve students in brief activities, such as analysis of persuasion techniques in advertising, and follow-up discussion. Reports that students found the exercises enjoyable and worthwhile. (CFR)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Advertising, Consumer Economics, Higher Education

Lawrence, Sandra M. – Teaching of Psychology, 1998
Outlines a classroom exercise that assists white undergraduates in recognizing their racial privilege and the effects of racism. Forces students to unknowingly assume roles analogous to those held by dominant and nondominant social groups while working in collaborative groups. Reports that students' reflections on the project provide evidence of…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Group Activities, Higher Education, Learning Activities
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