In this AskPsychSessions feature, Marianne talks with Cristina Zepeda from Washington University in St. Louis about the role motivation plays in student learning.

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ASK072 How should I think about motivation in my classes

In this episode Garth interviews Louise Chim from the University of Victoria in Victoria, Canada. Parents valuing education chose a future in Canada that Louise maximized, enjoying school, band, choir, & hockey. She played on the hockey team for 2 years as a Harvard undergraduate before pursuing graduate work in psychology / affective science at Stanford. Her resilience and patience are impressive, and she now serves as an associate professor of teaching at UVic, and is actively involved in TIP-NW & Psi Chi.

E129: Louise Chim: Resilient, Humble, Gifted, Well-Rounded, Teaching All-Star

In this episode Eric interviews some of the individuals who have served as Chief Readers for Advanced Placement (AP) Psychology, including Jane Halonen from the University of West Florida, Ken Keith from the University of San Diego, Elizabeth Yost Hammer from Xavier University of Louisiana, & Rik Seefeldt from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. These four legendary leaders share their own AP beginnings, acorn skits, pranks, the power of social identity, chief reader regrets & advice for the future.

E128: Some AP Psychology Chief Readers: One Off Is Right On

In this episode Eric interviews Aaron Richmond from Metropolitan State University-Denver in Denver, CO. In his 2nd podcast interview, Aaron shares homecare challenges with two educators and three school-age daughters during the pandemic. In 2020 he became the Editor of STP's Teaching of Psychology journal, and he shares his insights and excitement about that new role. Aaron has an off-the-charts work ethic, starting at age 12, and this helped him succeed through high school and college struggles. Airport Lounge by Kevin MacLeod | http://incompetech.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US

E127: Aaron Richmond (Part 2): Teacher / Editor / Guru, Pandemic Survivor, DNA-Infused Work Ethic

Episode snippets: test item formats and how the item format is related to the effectiveness of the assessment procedure; do we ever match the measurement modality to optimize to what we want to know about the construct? (No.) The Laura Petrie "oh Rob" moment is born; equivalencies and validities, the hard work of writing test item files for intro psych publishers, the difficult task of predictive validity studies, Rob's single diagnostic assessment item technique, quibbling over the word "best"

TMS02E10: Oh Rob. But Eric. Thus Season 2 Endeth [Only Listening Reveals The Context]

Episode snippets: four students working together in research methods on one project; the shared lab notebook through Google Docs; the possible usefulness of Microsoft OneNote for a lab notebook; attempting to record how students think, and if their thinking changes over the course of a year-long research methods course; using Poll Everywhere to engage students in class; the dominance of Google-suite products

TMS02E09: I Learned It From You, Rob, I Learned It From You: Technology in My Classroom

Episode snippets: Rob mentions the re-release of the Albert Bandura episode after his death; the newsletter; Eric tells his own story of meeting Dr. Bandura at the 2010 RMPA in Denver; the dinner with Nancy Karlin, Cheryl Sanders, Albert Bandura, and me at a Mexican restaurant; got to introduce Elizabeth Loftus too. To receive the opt-in PsychSessions newsletter, go to bit.ly/psychsessions-email

TMS02E08: Albert Bandura and Garth Neufeld Walk into a PsychSessions Podcast (Wait--I've Heard This One Before)

Episode snippets: the joy of being face to face with students again, a capstone course and an intense research methods experience, consulting projects in the capstone course, writing in shorter segments, meaningful parent-teacher conferences, infographics, students leveraging grade feedback, Jane Halonen and magic, high school researchers and the challenge of access to resources 

TMS02E07: Back to the Classroom: Consultation Projects, Research Deep Dives, and Masks & Vaccines: Oh My!

Episode snippets: introductory psychology and APA's Introductory Psychology Initiative (IPI), preparing psychology majors for the psychology workforce, access and affordability, educational systems, is the AP psych course an equivalent to the college level intro psych? The apprenticeship model, "Cs get degrees," the benefit of transfer credits to students (and parents), some current students are paralyzed by the number of options/choices before them regarding career options; imposter phenomenon

TMS02E06: Introductory Psychology, The Bachelor's Degree, and What's the Workforce Got To Do With It?

Episode snippets: the luxury of two years to teach intro psych in the IB psych curriculum, our guest Casey has taught both the AP psych and IB psych curriculum, so he can compare and contrast better than most; we discuss if IB programs have an exclusively issue/concern; entire schools must be IB schools Note: The viewpoints expressed here by Casey Swanson represent his personal opinions and not the opinions of his employer or the International Baccalaureate Organization.

TMS02E05: International Baccalaureate Psychology with Special Guest Casey Swanson

Episode snippets: AP Psych revisited, 1% interest level podcast, online training and what do you learn from automated testing, training vs. teaching, what instructors want for their students vs. what students want for themselves, students vote with their feet, what is the students' goal, mastery transcript, assessment centers in business schools

TMS02E04: Training vs. Teaching. What Instructors Want for Their Students vs. What Students Want

Episode snippets: project-based learning, team-based learning, teamwork, far transfer and near transfer, students can productively "struggle" with assignments, understanding and teaching, students doing good work on the surface but not really understanding what they are doing, value and risk of canned experiments, Coke vs. Pepsi, Ruth Ault, assessing skills other than writing

TMS02E03: The "Write" Stuff: Skills, Transfer, Coke vs. Pepsi, and More

Episode snippets: grading, students procrastinating until the end of the semester, why new collegiate hires get fired, the cultural baggage about grades, grades as a (mis)measure of worth, norm-referenced and criterion-referenced grading, the "true" curve, grading without points Check out Rob's blog: Not For Points: http://robmcentarffer.net/

TMS02E02: The Cultural Baggage of Grading, or, Grades as a (Mis)measure of Worth

Episode snippets: Welcome to Season 2, no return of F2F testing for AP and IP psychology in 2021, AP psych test scores and equivalencies, is AP psych as good as or better than college intro psych?, transfer credits and questions about IB psych

TMS02E01: Standardized Testing: Questions and (Some) Answers AP Psych and IB Psych Exams

In this AskPsychSessions feature, Marianne speaks with Derek Avery from the University of Houston about the value of including I/O psychology topics in the introductory psychology course.

ASK071: Why should I cover I/O in Introductory Psychology courses?

This podcast, co-hosted by Garth Neufeld and Eric Landrum, is about the teaching of psychology. We leverage our connections with top psychology educators as well as up-and-coming superstars to have deep conversations about what it means to be a teacher of psychology. Of course we veer away from the teaching conversation from time to time to hear about origin stories and the personal perspectives of our guests.

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