One of goals as teachers of psychology is to make sure that students come out of our classes more equipped to identify misapplications of psychological principles in their everyday lives. Movies and TV shows are a very rich source of these misconceptions,
Over the years, I have heard a lot of different opinions about course evaluations. Here are a few of the (likely misquoted) gems: Student 1: I don’t fill out course evaluations because no one reads them anyway. Student 2: Yessssss, time to roast Professor Y!
Procrastination – that is, delaying the start or completion of intended work – is extremely common among higher education students (1). The situation in Anton’s Materials Science 1 course, (part of the first-year Engineering curriculum at Avans University of Applied Sciences),
As Yana mentioned in her post, we at the Learning Scientists are giving thanks, and so are many others. To stick with this theme, in this week's digest, we present 5 resources about teaching and modeling moral and ethical behavior.
We're right in the middle of a season where a lot of us are giving thanks and reflecting on the year we have had. For some of us it is because of American or Canadian Thanksgiving, Japanese Labour Thanksgiving, or Turkish National Day of Thanks,
Don’t take my word for it, but being a scientist is about being a skeptic. About not being satisfied with easy answers to hard problems. About not believing something merely because it seems plausible...nor about reading a scientific study and believing...
