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Wade, Magic M. – Journal of Prison Education and Reentry, 2021
This research was inspired by allegations of censorship of college curricula in an Illinois state penitentiary. This example highlights the confusion and controversy that may ensue when disagreements arise over what students in prison-based college programs are permitted to read and learn. Following this, my research considers these relevant…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Higher Education, Access to Education, Instructional Materials
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Fienup, Daniel M.; Critchfield, Thomas S. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2011
College students in a psychology research-methods course learned concepts related to inferential statistics and hypothesis decision making. One group received equivalence-based instruction on conditional discriminations that were expected to promote the emergence of many untaught, academically useful abilities (i.e., stimulus equivalence group). A…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Computer Assisted Instruction, Statistics, Stimuli
HUNT, WILLIAM A.; MATHIS, CLAUDE – 1964
THE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG RELEVANCY OF CONTENT, MODE OF PRESENTATION, AND LEARNING OUTCOMES AS MEASURED BY OBJECTIVE TESTS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE IN AN INTRODUCTORY COURSE IN PSYCHOLOGY FOR TEACHERS WERE STUDIED. ALL STUDENTS ENROLLED IN A TWO-QUARTER COURSE WERE RANDOMLY DIVIDED INTO FIVE GROUPS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE FALL QUARTER OF 1963.…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Research, Lecture Method, Performance
Dieterich, Daniel J. – 1976
The purpose of this study was to determine how well today's students are being trained to deal with the persuasive messages which they receive through the mass media. The study involved two questionnaire surveys: the first a survey of 235 chairpersons of departments of speech and English in institutions of higher education in the state of…
Descriptors: College Students, Communication (Thought Transfer), Course Content, Doctoral Dissertations