Journal of Instructional Psychology articles

Recent articles from Journal of Instructional Psychology

Peer group counselling and school influence on adolescents' self-concept.(Report)
March 1, 2009... The study focused on the influence of peer group counselling and school influence on the self-concept of adolescents' in Nigerian secondary schools. Sixty-eight Senior Secondary School II students from three schools--a boys' school, a girls' school and a co-educational school in Benin City,...

Orienting student using a case-based instructional approach: a case study.(Case study)
March 1, 2009... Purpose: Orientation facilitates the transition to a new academic program to meet the need of new students to know programmatic items such as academic expectations, courses, policies and procedures. We used a problem based learning (PBL) approach to introduce our students to the expectations...

The effectiveness of National Board certified teachers: policy implications.(Report)
March 1, 2009... In this mixed-method research study, data from public school personnel were used to determine the professional preparation of teachers through the National Board Certification process. The major goals of the study were to (a) analyze the perceptions of public school principals on the...

Using self-instruction to teach counseling skills to school psychology students: an efficacy study.(Report)
March 1, 2009... Counseling is highly valued by school psychology faculty and practitioners but represents a small area of concentration within many graduate training programs, often comprised only of two or three survey courses without a supervised practicum experience. This multiple baseline, across...

An investigation of teachers' attitudes between school and home based family intervention models utilized by public school teachers in the People's Republic of China.(Report)
March 1, 2009... Teachers' attitudes toward family intervention are of great import on ways of increasing student achievement and cooperative interactions between teachers and family. Despite expanding school growth, there is very little research in China that examines teachers' attitudes toward family...