Journal of Instructional Psychology articles from March 1 2009

Journal of Instructional Psychology archives from March 1 2009

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'...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

The practice of information processing model in the teaching of cognitive strategies.(Report)
March 1, 2009... In this research, the differentiation condition of teaching the learning strategies depending on the time which the first grade of primary school teachers carried out to form an information-process skeleton on student is tried to be found out....

Negative behavior of teachers with regard to high school students in classroom settings.(Case study)
March 1, 2009... Good behavior is a necessary condition for effective teaching. There are few children who come to school without problems. Children's behavior at school appears to be strongly affected by within school factors. In this qualitative case study,...

You do what you are: the relationship between the scale of creative attributes and behavior and vocational interests.(Report)
March 1, 2009... Previous research has found relationships between measures of creativity and Vocational Interests, especially the artistic type. To partially examine the validity of a new self-report measure of creativity, 115 college students were...

Research use of clinical measures for anxiety in the recent psychological literature.(Report)
March 1, 2009... This study reports on recent trends in the psychological research literature on the use of measures in the assessment of anxiety. An analysis of PsycINFO, from 2000-2005, showed that the Beck Anxiety Inventory and the Anxiety Sensitivity Index...

"Boys like smart girls more than pretty girls": young Korean immigrant girls' understanding of romantic love in American popular culture.(Report)
March 1, 2009... Despite the importance of understanding children's interpretations of popular culture in the United States, young children's voices have not been sufficiently explored in studies. Moreover, the perspectives of American immigrant children hardly...