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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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Bembenutty, Hefer – Teaching of Psychology, 2008
Wilbert J. McKeachie has been the president of the American Psychological Association (APA), the American Association of Higher Education, the American Psychological Foundation, the Division of Educational and School Psychology of the International Association of Applied Psychology, and APA's Divisions 2 and 15. He received his PhD at the…
Descriptors: Discovery Processes, Learning Strategies, Teacher Educators, Educational Psychology
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Hofer, Barbara K.; Yu, Shirley L. – Teaching of Psychology, 2003
This study addressed the impact of a semester-long course called "Learning to Learn," an undergraduate psychology course designed to teach college students to be self-regulated learners. Results of pretesting and posttesting of 78 students with the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (Pintrich, Smith, Garcia, & McKeachie,…
Descriptors: Self Management, Learning Strategies, Undergraduate Students, Courses
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Conners, Frances A.; Mccown, Steven M.; Roskos-Ewoldsen, Beverly – Teaching of Psychology, 1998
Outlines and discusses four unique and major challenges facing the undergraduate statistics instructor. These are motivating students to study material they think is uninteresting, handling mathematics anxiety, dealing with performance extremes, and making the learning memorable. Offers solutions for each challenge. (MJP)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Strategies