Journal of Instructional Psychology articles from September 2008

Journal of Instructional Psychology archives from September 2008

The dilemma of hiring minorities and conservative resistance: the diversity game.(Report)
September 1, 2008... This paper defines affirmative action in the context of hiring practices in educational institutions and the public sector. It discusses discrimination, gender, equality, and conservative resistance to diversity programs. Cases are cited to...

Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty: developing a course on Disney and Fairytale Movies.
September 1, 2008... I developed and taught a course titled The Psychology of Disney and Fairytale Movies. This course examined the psychological effects of mass communication on behavior and thought, specifically the stereotyping of women and men and the concept...

Using Tablet PCs in the classroom: an investigation of students' expectations and reactions.(Report)
September 1, 2008... The purposes of the current experiments were to investigate: (a) students' expectations with regard to the use of Tablet PCs within the classroom, (b) students' attitudes toward the implementation of Tablet PCs within the classroom, and (c) the...

Psychology teaching resources in the MERLOT digital learning objects catalog.(Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching)(Report)
September 1, 2008... MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) is a free multidisciplinary catalog of digital learning materials, peer reviews, learning assignments, and member comments designed to facilitate faculty instruction. The...

Waking up to difference: teachers, color-blindness, and the effects on students of color.(Report)
September 1, 2008... Color-blindness, the ideology that "race should not matter" in how individuals are treated, is often confused with "race does not matter" (Neville, 2000). The historical, social, and political origins of color-blind racial attitudes are...

Effect of self-perception on performance of graduate-level cooperative groups in research methodology courses.(Report)
September 1, 2008... The purpose of the present investigation was to examine the role of self-perception in predicting performance of cooperative learning groups in graduate-level research methodology courses. A total of 29 groups was examined (n = 102 students),...

The school and students in society.(Report)
September 1, 2008... Students come from different socioeconomic levels in society. Thus, they do not come to school with equivalent background experiences. Students from upper and middle class socio economic communities do better in test results as compared to...

Exploring the psychological predictors of programming achievement.(Report)
September 1, 2008... The main purpose of this study is to explore the predictors of programming achievement. With this aim in mind, the students' success in the programming courses is specified as the dependent variable and creativity, problem solving, general...

Factorial validity, reliability, and measurement equivalence of the Noctcaelador Inventory across three ethnic groups.(night sky watching)(Report)
September 1, 2008... This study examined the reliability, factorial validity, and measurement equivalence of the Noctcaelador Inventory (NI) among three ethnic groups of college students. Participants included 200 Whites, 200 African Americans, and 200...

Self-disclosure through sharing with the public.(Report)
September 1, 2008... Self-disclosure is a rather difficult skill for both the counselor and the counselee in the psychological counseling process. In this study, the self-disclosure skill, which is an important concept in psychological counseling, and sharing with...

Measures of biochemical sociology.
September 1, 2008... In a previous article, the authors introduced a new sub field in sociology that we labeled "biochemical sociology." We introduced the definition of a sociology that encompasses sociological measures, psychological measures, and biological...

Variations in students' school- and teacher-related attitudes across gender, ethnicity, and age.(Report)
September 1, 2008... The present study examined differences across gender, ethnicity, and age with regard to the nature of participants' self-reported attitudes toward school and teachers, based on previous research suggesting that students' school- and...

High-stakes testing: strategies by teachers and principals for student success.(Report)
September 1, 2008... Principals and teachers recommend strategies to prepare and motivate students for high-stakes testing. Strategies are based on what they determine to be effective for student success. ********** With the increase of testing in our...