Best Practices for Teaching Beginnings and Endings in the Psychology Major Research, Cases, and Recommendations

by Dunn, Dana S.; Beins, Bernard B.; McCarthy, Maureen A.; Hill, IV, G. William; Goodwin, James

• ISBN13: 9780195378214
• ISBN10: 0195378210
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780190452186
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-01-12
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The chapters in this book offer guidance on the following:

Author Biography

Dana S. Dunn is President-Elect of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology. Professor of Psychology and Director, Learning in Common Curriculum at Moravian College.
Bernard C. Beins is Professor of Psychology and Chair at Ithaca College. Maureen A. McCarthy is Professor of Psychology at Kennesaw State University. G. William Hill, IV is Professor of Psychology and Director, Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning at Kennesaw State University. Beins, McCarthy, and Hill are all past presidents of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology.

Table of Contents

Contributor List	p. xv
About the Editors	p. xxi
Preface	p. xxv
Acknowledgments	p. xxxi
Undergraduate Education in Psychology: All's Well That Begins and Ends Well	p. 3
Beginnings
Addressing the Multiple Demands of Teaching Introductory Psychology	p. 15
Reading From the Same Page: Building an Integrated Curriculum	p. 31
Advising in the Classroom: A Career Exploration Class for Psychology Majors	p. 49
Building a Psychology Orientation Course: Common Themes and Exercises	p. 69
Engaging Students in Psychology: Building on First-Year Programs and Seminars	p. 93
Learning Communities as an Innovative Beginning to the Psychology Major: A Tale of Two Campuses	p. 107
Displacing Wikipedia: Information Literacy for First-Year Students	p. 125
Crafting and Implementing a Career Development Course in Psychology	p. 137
Endings
The Capstone Course in Psychology as Liberal Education Opportunity	p. 155
History of Psychology as a Capstone Course	p. 171
Research Teams: Developing a Capstone Experience With Programmatic Research	p. 187
Honors Thesis as a Capstone: A Possible Perfect Ending	p. 205
The Capstone Research Course: A Case Study in the Evolution of Educational Efficacy	p. 217
Ten Things I Hate About My Capstone Course—And a Few Ways to Fix Them	p. 237
Writing for Psychology Majors as a Developmental Process	p. 253
Capping the Undergraduate Experience: Making Learning Come Alive Through Fieldwork	p. 279
Helping Undergraduates Transition to the Workplace: Four Discussion Starters	p. 299
Helping Undergraduates Make the Transition to Graduate School	p. 319
Teaching Psychology's Endings: The Simple Gifts of a Reflective Close	p. 331
Coda
Developing Scientific Reasoning Skills in Beginning and Ending Students	p. 349
Name Index	p. 365
Subject Index	p. 37
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