As a wrap up to 2019, I’d like to share with you our most popular posts and articles for the year. We look forward to bringing you more great content in 2020!
Should You Become An Undergraduate Teaching Assistant?
Do you remember your first college class in which the instructor had an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant? Did you wonder about the duties of your teaching assistant and perhaps also the knowledge, skills, and characteristics and experience and training it takes to become a UTA? Author Drew Appleby, PhD, provides answers to these questions and discusses the benefits and challenges of being a teaching assistant.
4 Reasons To Pursue A Career In School Psychology
Most enter a career in school psychology to work with youth and families in school settings, address complex challenges, and support student learning and mental and behavioral health. Authors Rachel Stein, Ph.D. and Leslie Shelton explore the benefits of a career in school psychology and why they can extend beyond reasons for initially becoming a school psychologist.
Defending The Major: Exploiting The Workforce Advantage Of The Psychology Degree
Although the vast majority of students who declare majors in psychology claim that they aspire to continue their education in graduate school, the reality is that most psychology graduates will instead enter the workforce. Jane Halonen, PhD, says that the best defense of the major is a good offense and that students should become extremely competitive with other job seekers because of certain crucial characteristics that serve as the backbone of the undergraduate psychology degree.
Retrieval Practices’ Impact On Test Anxiety And Stress
When it comes to improving retention of material in the classroom, the author Blake Harvard says you’d be hard-pressed to find another strategy that produces better results while also addressing such a diverse set of learners. This blog post helps readers learn more about retrieval practice as it relates to stress and test anxiety.
Scientific Literacy: It’s Not Just The Textbooks. Psychology Students Score Higher, Too
In this blog post, the author Salvador Macias, III, PhD writes about his study to investigate differences in students’ acquisition of scientific literacy. The findings demonstrate that the traditional emphasis psychology courses place on scientific literacy does, in fact, result in an increased awareness of our students.
I-O Psychologists’ Passion Projects: Improving The Ways Scientists Communicate Their Findings
Meet Mike Morrison, a doctoral student at Michigan State University’s Organizational Psychology program. He has ideas for improving what he views as an arcane academic journal system that makes it very difficult for scientists to share their research and glean current best practices in a given area. In this blog post, Juliya Golubovich, PhD interviews Mike about his work on better science communication and where he hopes to see it go from here.
The Seductive Nature Of Psychological Myths: Is Metacognition The Great Equalizer?
In this blog post, author Aaron Richmond investigates if metacognition may play an integral role in understanding why we believe psychological myths.
Advanced Placement And Dual Enrollment: What’s A Student To Choose?
Two well-known programs that prepare students for college-level work are Advanced Placement and dual enrollment. Numerous reports highlight the positive outcomes of each program. Author Clemente Diaz, MA, explores which program best prepares students for college rigor.
A Case For Data Science In Psychology
Author Jessica Conroy believes that the psychology community can benefit from incorporating data science techniques into its work and the foundation of psychology curricula. She examines the definition of “data science” and walks through an example of how the American Psychological Association’s Center for Workforce Studies used a data science approach to improve the efficiency, objectivity, and accuracy of a recent project.
The “Good Job” You Want May Not Be “Good For You”
This blog post, written by Drew C. Appleby, PhD, challenges students to engage in self-reflection about what they believe is the purpose of their work and how this purpose will determine the meaning and satisfaction they derive from it.
