1976
DOI: 10.1207/s15328023top0302_6
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Undergraduate-Taught “Minicourses” in Conjunction with an Introductory Lecture Course

Abstract: point of view at the college level. Such a course provides an ideal opportunity to make use of the students' intrinsic motivation to teach a lot of basic psychology and improve our credibility at the same time. Although the evidence for ESP is extremely weak, belief is correlated with alienation from the goals and methods of psychology. The psychology of belief in ESP may be a fruitful area of research.A contract-option educational experience designed and presented by selected upperclass students for introduct… Show more

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“…This literature generally rates performance of student teach--ers quite highly. (For some of the variations using undergraduate TAs in psychology courses, see Gnagey, 1979;Kohn & Brill, 1981;Mendenhall & Burr, 1983;White & Kolber, 1978;Wortman & Hillis, 1976. ) Some colleges and universities use so many TAs that they divide large classes into small groups of 5 to 7.…”
Section: A mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This literature generally rates performance of student teach--ers quite highly. (For some of the variations using undergraduate TAs in psychology courses, see Gnagey, 1979;Kohn & Brill, 1981;Mendenhall & Burr, 1983;White & Kolber, 1978;Wortman & Hillis, 1976. ) Some colleges and universities use so many TAs that they divide large classes into small groups of 5 to 7.…”
Section: A mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Others have noted that undergraduate TAs can be very effective (Mendenhall & Burr, 1983;White & Kolber, 1978;Wortman & Hillis, 1976). The TAs lecture, grade homework, hold review sessions, and tutor.…”
Section: Description Of the Approachmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…There is also substantial evidence to suggest that the TAs benefit from their involvement in the introductory course. In the evaluation we conducted (Wortman 6 Hillis, 1976), undergraduate TAs were asked to indicate whether they were glad they had served as TAs. On a scale ranging from 1 (not at allglad) to 5 (extremelyglud), the mean rating made by the 33 TAs was 4.76.…”
Section: Evaluation Of Undergraduate Teaching Assistantsmentioning
confidence: 99%