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Getting the Most Out of Your Student Ratings of Instruction
How do you react after reading your student ratings of instruction? How is it that professionals with advanced degrees who have taught for decades can be devastated or elated based on a comment or two
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Make Your Teaching and Your Life More Enjoyable
This job is miserable; the workload is unbearable, there are too many students, and there are not enough hours in the day to do all the things I need to do. I am so tired
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Building a Sense of Community in Undergraduate Psychology Departments
Imagine you are a student sitting among 300 others in your psychology class. You look around and wonder, “How am I going to fit in? Will I ever make friends in this department? Will my
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Evaluating and Improving Your Teaching
Faculty who take teaching seriously will inevitably ask themselves one especially important question: “How can I become a more effective teacher?” The question implies that an individual’s teaching, no matter how good it may be
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Teaching Quantitative Reasoning
How can psychology contribute to the public good? The Human Capital Initiative (HCI) report, prepared with the assistance of APS, cites an important means of doing so: helping people to improve their statistical reasoning. “The
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Engaging Students With Humor
He wanted to be called Lunch Box instead of his proper name. When I finished writing something on the board, I would usually turn to see him making a comment to a classmate with a
