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Tipping the Scale: Strategies for Research Productivity in Grad School
February 2014 Student Notebook Announcements Become an APSSC Campus Representative to promote psychological science on your campus. APSSC members may be eligible for travel grants to defray the cost of travel to the APS Annual
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Developing Interactive Tools for Teaching Statistics to Psychology Students
Of the many types of new technological tools available for teaching statistics, which ones will actually help students learn? Research suggests students will receive the greatest benefit only if the tools include structured interactions that encourage learning through discovery.
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Psychology Significantly More Scientific Than Previously Thought (p < .01)
Four years ago, I would have chuckled if I had seen the words “psychology” and “science” used in the same sentence without a “not” in between. Science was biology, chemistry, physics — after all, those
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Student Events at the 2014 APS Annual Convention
Applying to graduate school and finding employment after you’re done with your program of study are formidable undertakings, to say the least. At the 2014 APS Annual Convention, to be held May 22–25 in San
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What’s a GPA? When College Campus Is a Strange Land
My grandfather entered the Pennsylvania coal mines as a child, and was out of work much of his adult life. Neither he nor my grandmother got much in the way of formal education, and they
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Academic Admissions Researcher Schmitt to Receive 2014 James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award
APS Fellow Neal Schmitt will receive a 2014 James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award. Schmitt, whose research focuses on personnel selection and academic admissions, will give his award address at the 26th APS Annual Convention, May 22–25
