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Direct linkChristina Shane-Simpson; Emma Desens; Allisyn Kleutsch; Rita Obeid – Teaching of Psychology, 2025
Background: Limited research has compared relationships among student characteristics, study guide format, and academic performance. Objective: This study investigated relations among student characteristics (motivation, self-efficacy) and academic performance, examined the efficacy of study guide format on performance, and aggregated student…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Child Psychology, Study Guides, Intermode Differences
Wilson, Janie H.; Ryan, Rebecca G. – Teaching of Psychology, 2013
Rapport between students and teachers leads to numerous positive student outcomes, including attitudes toward the teacher and course, student motivation, and perceived learning. The recent development of a Professor-Student Rapport scale offers assessment of this construct. However, a Cronbach's [alpha] of 0.96 indicated item redundancy, and the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Grades (Scholastic), Learner Engagement, Student Motivation
Wilson, Janie H.; Ryan, Rebecca G.; Pugh, James L. – Teaching of Psychology, 2010
Rapport traditionally has been measured in therapy or in other one-on-one relationships such as with roommates. As yet, no scale is available to measure professor-student rapport. In this study, 51 undergraduates created items to measure professor-student rapport, and subsequently, 195 different college students rated their agreement with items…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement, Validity, Interpersonal Relationship
Wilson, Janie H.; Wilson, Shauna B. – Teaching of Psychology, 2007
Teaching experts assert that the first day of class impacts students, with potential negative effects lasting the entire term. However, no empirical research supports this supposition. We randomly assigned students to view a video of their professor either providing a positive or negative first-day experience. Students with the positive experience…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Motivation, Psychology, Teaching Methods
Wilson, Janie H. – Teaching of Psychology, 2006
Psychological availability to students defines immediacy, a concept traditionally measured using ratings of instructor behaviors. However, students' perceptions of their professor's attitude toward them may serve as a more parsimonious measure of psychological availability. In fact, ratings of a professor's attitude toward students are positively…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Predictor Variables, Teacher Attitudes, Perception
Peer reviewedGraham, Robert B. – Teaching of Psychology, 1999
Explores the impact of unannounced quizzes on students' performance on examinations by comparing course segments with quizzes to segments without quizzes. Finds that test scores following quizzes averaged half a letter grade higher than scores from segments without quizzes; C students demonstrated a grade gain of 84% of a letter grade. (CMK)
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Higher Education, Outcomes of Education, Psychology
Peer reviewedDavis, Stephen F.; And Others – Teaching of Psychology, 1992
Discusses results of a questionnaire asking students' opinions and experiences concerning academic cheating. Examines the prevalence, situational and dispositional determinants, and techniques of cheating. Concludes that pressures for good grades, student stress, ineffective deterrents, condoning teachers, and an increasing lack of academic…
Descriptors: Cheating, Discipline Problems, Ethics, Grades (Scholastic)
Peer reviewedWilson, Janie H.; Taylor, Kelli W. – Teaching of Psychology, 2001
Presents a study that examines the relations: (1) among professor immediacy (being available and welcoming to students) behaviors and undergraduate students perceptions of instructor's attitudes towards them; and (2) perceptions of instructor attitude towards undergraduates students and student motivation, projected grades, and attitudes towards…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Grades (Scholastic), Higher Education, Questionnaires
