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Edwards, Ordene V.; Ray, Herman G.; Granger, Marion – Teaching of Psychology, 2023
Background: Encouraging students to adopt a mastery goal orientation can help increase learning and motivation. However, the effect of mastery goal orientation interventions specifically in upper-division online elective psychology courses has not been studied. Objective: The purpose of this replication study was to examine the effects of a…
Descriptors: College Students, Surveys, Learning Strategies, Questionnaires
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Holmes, Jeffrey D. – Teaching of Psychology, 2021
There is widespread belief that test-taking ability is an influential component of academic success distinct from domain knowledge and comprehension. Most of today's college students took many more tests over the course of their primary and secondary education than students of previous generations, and also participated in regular training to…
Descriptors: Test Anxiety, Student Attitudes, Identification (Psychology), Test Wiseness
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Cavazos, Jenel T.; Stern, William; Stephenson, Elise; Heddy, Benjamin – Teaching of Psychology, 2021
Belief in psychological misconceptions has potential repercussions for both students and potentially society as a whole. We present a creative and engaging myth refutation assignment that uses an infographic format to promote the refutation of psychological misconceptions. A total of 166 students completed the myth refutation assignment, along…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Visual Aids, Information Dissemination, Assignments
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Brown-Kramer, Carolyn R. – Teaching of Psychology, 2021
How can instructors help students adopt effective learning strategies? In this study, students in a large introductory psychology class completed a "learning how to learn" assignment in which they read one of four randomly assigned empirical articles about the utility of a learning strategy (i.e., distributed practice, rereading,…
Descriptors: Study Habits, Academic Achievement, Performance Factors, Learning Strategies
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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
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McCabe, Jennifer A. – Teaching of Psychology, 2015
The goal of this research was to determine whether there is a generation effect for learner-created keyword mnemonics and real-life examples, compared to instructor-provided materials, when learning neurophysiological terms and definitions in introductory psychology. Students participated in an individual (Study 1) or small-group (Study 2)…
Descriptors: Mnemonics, Brain, Neurology, Physiology
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Deichert, Nathan T.; Maxwell, Shannon J.; Klotz, Joseph – Teaching of Psychology, 2016
The current study is a quasi-experimental examination of the effects of traditional and accelerated course formats on learning retention. The study analyzed data on an end-of-course exam collected from 132 students enrolled in introductory psychology courses across 3 course formats: a traditional 16-week format, a 5-week accelerated format, and an…
Descriptors: Retention (Psychology), Introductory Courses, Psychology, Acceleration (Education)
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Leeming, Frank C. – Teaching of Psychology, 2002
Students in 4 classes had a short exam at the start of every class. Grades were significantly better than in previous classes where the same material was taught but with only 4 exams, and there were fewer withdrawals from the exam-a-day classes. Students taught with the exam-a-day procedure also performed better on a retention test than did…
Descriptors: Tests, Grades (Scholastic), Correlation, Retention (Psychology)