This study was designed to examine the use of mobile phone, a widespread technology, and determined how this technology influences science students' learning. The study intended to examine the use of smartphones in science teaching and learning and propose of model in the use of smartphones for teaching and learning. The research design employed…

Little is known about levels of personal growth attributed by students to typical college life experiences. This paper documents two studies of student self-reported and posttraumatic growth and compares growth levels across populations. Both studies measure student attributions of cause to academic and non-academic experiences, respectively. It…

The present investigation was undertaken in order to help resolve the issue of the relative effectiveness of two classroom instructional techniques. Specifically, this investigation compared the effectiveness of the lecture method with the crossword puzzle used as a teaching device, following the reasoning of Nachman and Opochinsky (1958).…

Reports a study that investigated the interactions of selected learner aptitudes and two instructional treatments, the lecture method and a videotaped presentation. Learner aptitudes utilized in the study involved measures of seven cognitive factors, Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores, and the college grade point average (GPA). (Author)

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of comparison levels (standards of achievement), test anxiety, and ongoing self-reported affect to performance on a classroom type complex verbal learning task. (Author)

Cooperative learning has been proven to be helpful in enhancing the learning performance of students. The goal of a cooperative learning group is to maximize all members' learning, which is accomplished via promoting each other's success, through assisting, sharing, mentoring, explaining, and encouragement. To achieve the goal of cooperative…

The relationship between reward level and basic motives which underlie strategic choices (competitive and noncompetitive) in a mixed-motive game was examined from two theoretical perspectives. (Editor)

The efficacy of behavioral objectives in improving student achievement was assessed in a college setting. (Editor)

The American Institutes for Research (2006) recently reported that 20% of U.S. students graduating from four-year colleges and universities and 30% of those completing two-year degrees have quantitative literacy skills at only a basic level. Sociologists are currently working on a variety of approaches to incorporate quantitative literacy into…

Support was found for two hypotheses declaring that students attending the last regular meeting of a college course in introductory psychology give more favorable instructor and course evaluations than those attending the final examination only. (Author/SE)

Twenty-seven studies are reviewed that investigate the effect of instructional methods, courses, programs, and general college experiences on changes in college students' thinking. The results did support the conclusion that college attendance improves critical thinking. (Author/MLW)

An experiment was performed to determine whether there would be a difference in insight between an inferential problem expressed in a symbolic and in a realistic form. (Editor)

Article attempted to clarify and elaborate the informational, self-evaluative basis of social comparison theory by focusing on two problems relating to assumptions of the theory. (Author/RK)

Twenty subjects were pretrained with oral presentations of either three- or six-letter pseudowords exposed 0, 1, 5, 25, or 50 times. Then tachistoscopic duration thresholds were obtained for these pseudowords. (Editor)