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View article: Teaching cognitive dissonance theory: Practical advice for the classroom.
Teaching cognitive dissonance theory: Practical advice for the classroom. Open
Cognitive dissonance is an essential theory in psychology.However, communicating its importance to students can be challenging.To address this, the sparse empirical literature suggests the use of lively in-class experiences and worked exam…
View article: Searching for Significance in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Finding None: Understanding Non-Significant Results
Searching for Significance in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Finding None: Understanding Non-Significant Results Open
Quantitative results from empirical studies are common in the field of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), but it is important to remain aware of what the results from our studies can, and cannot, tell us. Oftentimes studies condu…
View article: Original Undergraduate Research in Classroom Contexts: Student Perceptions of a Scaffolded Approach
Original Undergraduate Research in Classroom Contexts: Student Perceptions of a Scaffolded Approach Open
This article describes a model for supporting undergraduate research that can be adapted for very different classroom contexts; we implemented this model in a first-year general education composition class, a second-year Psychology class a…
View article: Instructor Comments on Student Writing
Instructor Comments on Student Writing Open
View article: Reducing Anxiety and Increasing Self-efficacy within an Advanced Graduate Psychology Statistics Course
Reducing Anxiety and Increasing Self-efficacy within an Advanced Graduate Psychology Statistics Course Open
In this study we assessed the usefulness of a multifaceted teaching framework in an advanced statistics course. We sought to expand on past findings by using this framework to assess changes in anxiety and self-efficacy, and we collected f…