Recently added articles from Journal of Instructional Psychology:
Peer group counselling and school influence on adolescents' self-concept.(Report)
Mar 01, 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 ...
Orienting student using a case-based instructional approach: a case study.(Case study)
Mar 01, 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 ...
The effectiveness of National Board certified teachers: policy implications.(Report)
Mar 01, 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)
Mar 01, 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)
Mar 01, 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 ...
The practice of information processing model in the teaching of cognitive strategies.(Report)
Mar 01, 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. This process including the efforts of 260 ...
Negative behavior of teachers with regard to high school students in classroom settings.(Case study)
Mar 01, 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, the teachers' negative behavior with regard to ...
You do what you are: the relationship between the scale of creative attributes and behavior and vocational interests.(Report)
Mar 01, 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 administered the Vocational Preference Inventory (Form C) ...
Research use of clinical measures for anxiety in the recent psychological literature.(Report)
Mar 01, 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 had the highest hit rates. The results ...
"Boys like smart girls more than pretty girls": young Korean immigrant girls' understanding of romantic love in American popular culture.(Report)
Mar 01, 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 have a presence in studies of popular ...
Integrating music therapy services and speech-language therapy services for children with severe communication impairments: a co-treatment model.(Clinical report)
Dec 01, 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 outcomes of integrating music therapy with ...
Actions proposed by teachers to improve the delivery of pre-vocational education in Jordan.(Report)
Dec 01, 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, face numerous problems. In this study, ...
Language alternation in university classrooms.(Report)
Dec 01, 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 of English and Arabic medium classes in ...
The effects of anxiety and self-efficacy on finance students.(Report)
Dec 01, 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 they will perform poorly on a task do worse ...
The effect on retention of Computer Assisted Instruction in science education.(Report)
Dec 01, 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 Lesson. In this research, 132 students were ...
Looking beyond undergraduates' attitude about a university-wide writing requirement.(Report)
Dec 01, 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 writing capability as measured by the Texas ...
Teachers: recognize important steps to reduce cheating.(Report)
Dec 01, 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 skill acquisition in regards to: (1) ...
The process of integrating "knowledge management" into teacher's "teaching resources"--a case study on the hospitality college.(Report)(Case study)
Dec 01, 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 lies in the nature of how things are managed ...
Preventing unintentional plagiarism: a method for strengthening paraphrasing skills.(Report)
Dec 01, 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 students enrolled in research methods ...
Developing the evaluation scale to determine the impact of body language in an argument: reliability & validity analysis.(Report)
Dec 01, 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 was used in this study. A logical and ...