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Ciarocco, Natalie J.; Dinella, Lisa M.; Hatchard, Christine J.; Valosin, Jayde – Teaching of Psychology, 2016
The current study empirically tested the effectiveness of a modular approach to integrating professional development across an undergraduate psychology curriculum. Researchers conducted a two-group, between-subjects experiment on 269 undergraduate psychology students assessing perceptions of professional preparedness and learning. Analysis…
Descriptors: Integrated Curriculum, Program Effectiveness, Undergraduate Students, Psychology
Sterling, Donna R.; Frazier, Wendy M. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2011
A study of new teachers with science degrees but little or no training in education found that coaches who spent time in their classrooms provided the most effective support for new teachers. Science methods courses provided by a university also were very helpful for the new teacher. But academic mentors for science content and teacher mentors who…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Mentors, Coaching (Performance), Beginning Teacher Induction
Morrison, Gary R.; And Others – 1994
Relative effects on adult learners who received experimenter-provided elaborations or who generated personal elaborations, using strategies taught by means of detached versus embedded training, were examined in 80 employees in a professional-development course at a large corporation. Subjects were assigned to a control group, a group receiving…
Descriptors: Achievement, Adult Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Control Groups