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Distance Learning The Old Fashioned Way: Taking Class Outside the Classroom
Psychology classes have little trouble attracting the attention of students as evidenced by the fact that general psychology courses are typically the largest classes in the curriculum. General psychology has strong appeal because the course
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Where Are Nearly Half of Undergraduates Initially Exposed to Psychology?
Researchers estimate that approximately 500,000 community college students enroll in various psychology courses each year in the United States (Johnson & Rudmann, 2004). “Most students at four year schools — most people for that matter
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How Technology is Changing How We Teach Psychology
Just as psychology is an evolving science, the conditions under which we teach our discipline are also continually changing. Effective introductory psychology teachers must not only keep abreast of changes in their subject matter, they
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Major Developments in Undergraduate Psychology
It’s a field that is misunderstood by a lot of people. Practitioners are thought to be mind-readers and researchers are thought to be practitioners. But for a subject that is so misunderstood, psychology certainly is
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Making the Grade: Psychological Science at the Institute of Education Sciences
Before I came to Washington, DC, to head the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES) nine months ago, I spent my entire career analyzing data, researching reform and school improvement efforts, and
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Helping Failing Students: Part 2
In Part 1 of this essay (Buskist & Howard, 2009), we made a broad distinction between two types of failing students — those students who actively fail our classes and those students who passively fail