Journal of Instructional Psychology articles from December 2008

Journal of Instructional Psychology archives from December 2008

Integrating music therapy services and speech-language therapy services for children with severe communication impairments: a co-treatment model.(Clinical report)
December 1, 2008... Documenting how music therapy can be integrated with speech-language therapy services for children with communication delay is not evident in the literature. In this article, a collaborative model with procedures, experiences, and communication...

Actions proposed by teachers to improve the delivery of pre-vocational education in Jordan.(Report)
December 1, 2008... Reforms of education often ignore teachers' contribution particularly in the third world countries. These reforms usually rely on personal opinions of the individuals of decisions makers. Pre-vocational education (PVE) in Jordanian schools,...

Language alternation in university classrooms.(Report)
December 1, 2008... This paper examines the alternate use of Arabic and English in the context of a university classroom, where a policy to use the former language in place of the latter was being implemented. Analysis of a sample of recorded university lectures...

The effects of anxiety and self-efficacy on finance students.(Report)
December 1, 2008... Because of their quantitative content, Finance courses are particularly difficult for business majors. Math-related material causes many students to become anxious, which can impede their learning and their performance. Also, students who think...

The effect on retention of Computer Assisted Instruction in science education.(Report)
December 1, 2008... The aim of this research is to determine the retention effect of Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) on students' academic achievement for teaching the Physics topics. The research includes the Force and Pressure units of 7th grade Science...

Looking beyond undergraduates' attitude about a university-wide writing requirement.(Report)
December 1, 2008... A sample of 263 junior and senior undergraduates (101 males, 162 females) participated in a study to determine relationships between their agreement/disagreement about a university-wide writing competency graduation requirement and (1) level of...

Teachers: recognize important steps to reduce cheating.(Report)
December 1, 2008... Teachers must walk the steps and live the steps if reducing cheating is going to occur. Teachers begin this process by being cognizant and vigilant relative to administering means of measurement and assigning written work. This process includes...

The process of integrating "knowledge management" into teacher's "teaching resources"--a case study on the hospitality college.(Report)(Case study)
December 1, 2008... Many people may think knowledge management is only applicable to enterprises. In fact, the inventor of knowledge management, Peter F. Drucker (2000), once stated that knowledge management can also be applied to schools and the major difference...

Preventing unintentional plagiarism: a method for strengthening paraphrasing skills.(Report)
December 1, 2008... Plagiarism may result from faulty cognitive processing and thereby be unintentional (Marsh, Landau, & Hicks, 1997). The current study tested the effectiveness of paraphrasing training designed to prevent unintentional plagiarism. Thirty-six...

Developing the evaluation scale to determine the impact of body language in an argument: reliability & validity analysis.(Report)
December 1, 2008... In this research, it is aimed to develop a scale to observe the body language which is used during an argument. A sample group of 266 teacher candidates study at the departments of Class, Turkish or Social Sciences at the Faculty of Education...

Play-based neuropsychological assessment of toddlers.(Clinical report)
December 1, 2008... Standardized psychological assessment provides a precise yet limited view of the neuropsychological status of preschool toddlers, whose brain functioning is only beginning to develop localized functioning. Yet, referrals for preschool...

Using the psychic blue dot to teach about science (and pseudoscience).(Report)
December 1, 2008... A new teaching method is described for teaching research methods in an Introductory Psychology curriculum with the goals of making the section on research methods more interesting, providing an active learning environment for research methods...