The Oxford Handbook of Undergraduate Psychology Education

Dana S. Dunn

Oxford Library of Psychology

Provides current perspectives on promoting psychological literacy in psychology education.
Gives concrete advice on assessing teaching and learning in psychology courses.
Reviews teaching methods and pedagogical techniques that enhance student learning.
Discusses matters of diversity, including teaching diverse students and highlighting ways to weave diversity issues throughout the psychology curriculum.
Part of the Oxford Library of Psychology series

The Oxford Handbook of Undergraduate Psychology Education

Dana S. Dunn

Description

The Oxford Handbook of Undergraduate Psychology Education is dedicated to providing comprehensive coverage of teaching, pedagogy, and professional issues in psychology. The Handbook is designed to help psychology educators at each stage of their careers, from teaching their first courses and developing their careers to serving as department or program administrators. The goal of the Handbook is to provide teachers, educators, researchers, scholars, and administrators in psychology with current, practical advice on course creation, best practices in psychology pedagogy, course content recommendations, teaching methods and classroom management strategies, advice on student advising, and administrative and professional issues, such as managing one's career, chairing the department, organizing the curriculum, and conducting assessment, among other topics.

The primary audience for this Handbook is college and university-level psychology teachers (at both two and four-year institutions) at the assistant, associate, and full professor levels, as well as department chairs and other psychology program administrators, who want to improve teaching and learning within their departments. Faculty members in other social science disciplines (e.g., sociology, education, political science) will find material in the Handbook to be applicable or adaptable to their own programs and courses.

The Oxford Handbook of Undergraduate Psychology Education

Dana S. Dunn

Oxford Library of Psychology

PART I. Background and Introduction

1. Psychology Education - Dana S. Dunn

2. Teaching Psychology: Reflecting on the Art and Science of Quality Pedagogy - Dana S. Dunn and Jamie McMinn

3. Origins of Teaching Psychology in America - Jennifer L. Bazar

4. Disciplinary Initiatives in Psychology Education: Retrospect and Prospect- Jane S. Halonen

PART 2. Pedagogy and Practice Issues

5. Designing the Psychology Course: Syllabus, Readings, and Assignments - Kenneth D. Keith

6. Smart Starts and Happy Endings: Wise Choices for the First and Last Days of Class - Elliot Hammer

7. Teaching Critical Thinking to Promote Learning - Diane F. Halpern, Amanda H. R. Franco, and Heather A. Butler

8. Evaluating Learning: Designing Effective Quizzes, Tests, and Final Exams - Kevin J. Apple

9. The Head of the Class: Classroom Management and Presentation Choices - Beth M. Schwartz and Amy Fineburg

10. Becoming an Excellent Teacher - William Buskist and Jared Keeley

11. Ethical Teaching in the Classroom and Beyond- Mitchell M. Handelsman and William Douglas Woody

12. Teaching About Diversity Across the Undergraduate Psychology Curriculum - Mary E. Kite and Linh Nguyen Littleford

13. Teaching Laboratory Courses in Psychology - Jeffrey D. Holmes and Bernard C. Beins

14. Addressing the Needs of Nontraditional Students in Psychology - Mukul Bhalla, Diane Finley, and Radhika Krishnadas

15. Service Learning and Psychology - Michelle E. Schmidt and Stacey B. Zaremba

16. Conducting and Applying the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning - Regan A. R. Gurung

17. Teaching Writing for Psychology Courses - Randolph A. Smith

18. Speaking Well: Promoting Effective Oral Presentations Skills Across the Psychology Curriculum - Dana S.
Dunn, Jane S. Halonen, Suzanne C. Baker, and Maureen A. McCarthy

19. Collaboration: Student-Faculty Research - Richard L. Miller

20. Directing Undergraduate Research in Independent Studies, Honors, and Thesis Projects - Stephen L. Chew

21. Mentoring Undergraduates in Research - Lisabeth Fisher DiLalla

22. Using Technology Effectively in the Psychology Classroom - Jeffrey R. Stowell

23. Teaching Online Courses in Psychology - Jennifer Stiegler-Balfour

PART 3. Teaching the Topical Areas

24. Introductory Psychology: Unique Challenges and Opportunities - Wayne Weiten and Jeremy Ashton Houska

25. Teaching Research Methods - Bryan K. Saville

26. Statistics and Psychometrics - Maureen A. McCarthy and Bernard C. Beins

27. Psychology and Neuroscience: Teaching the Neural Basis of Behavior - Gary Muir and Erik Wiertelak

28. Animal Behavior - Suzanne C. Baker and Catherine Franssen

29. Experimental Psychology - Howard Iver Thorsheim

30. Using Science to Teach Science: Applying the Scientific Method in Teaching Physiological Psychology -
Sarah K. Johnson and Gretchen Hanson Gotthard

31. Teaching Cognitive Science - Robert J. Sternberg and Karin Sternberg

32. Psychology of Adjustment - Dana S. Dunn, Wayne Weiten, and Elizabeth Yost Hammer

33. Clinical and Counseling Psychology - Mark J. Sciutto

34. Abnormal Psychology - Susan Nolan, Paige H. Fisher, and Magdalena Galazyn

35. Teaching Child and Adolescent Development - David B. Daniel and Aaron S. Richmond

36. The Joys and Challenges of Teaching Social Psychology - Kathryn A. Morris and R. Brian Giesler

37. Teaching Personality Psychology - Marianne Miserandino

38. Teaching Health Psychology - Regan A. R. Gurung and Elise M. Rittenhouse

39. Teaching the History of Psychology: Aims, Approaches, and Debates - Wade Pickren and Alexandra Rutherford

40. Human Sexuality - Elizabeth Yost Hammer

41. Teaching Psychology of the Workplace - Tracy E. Zinn

42. Psychology of Women - Florence Denmark and Michele Paludi

43. Strategies and Resources for Teaching Psychology of Religion - Michael E. Nielsen and Christopher F. Silver

44. Positive Psychology - Jaime Kurtz

45. Teaching Cultural Psychology - Beth Morling

46. Teaching Forensic Clinical Psychology - Matthew T. Huss and Vince Flynn

47. Teaching the Psychology and Law Class - Elizabeth Swenson

48. Sport Psychology - Shane M. Murphy and Annemarie I. Murphy

49. Teaching the Psychology of Men and Masculinity to Undergraduates - Ronald F. Levant and Katherine Richmond

PART 4. Preparing Students for Life after Graduation

50. Psychology Applied: Undergraduate Internships and Field Placements - Monica Reis-Bergan

51. Career Development Courses: Preparing Psychology Majors for the Workplace - R. Eric Landrum

52. Advising Students about Graduate School in Nonpsychology Fields - Susan Burns

53. Taking Time Off Between College and Graduate School: Guidance and Recommendations - Jared Keeley

PART 5. Administrative Matters and Career Issues

54. Preparing for Teaching-Oriented, Tenure-Track Jobs: The Role of Postdoctoral, Adjunct, and Visiting
Positions - Debra Mashek, Diana M. Milillo, and Jennifer M. Tomlinson

55. Character Strengths for Well-Being in Academic Life Work and Relationships - Thomas McGovern

56. Seeking Balance in One's Early Career: Teaching, Research, Service, and Private Life - Steven Prentice-
Dunn

57. Becoming a Better Writer about Psychology - Andrew Christopher, Pam Marek, and Kevin Zabel

58. Applying the Portfolio Model of Adaptability - Frederick T. L. Leong, Siddharth Chandra, and Madhur Chandra

59. Structuring the Psychology Curriculum: Balancing Breadth, Depth, and Currency - Dana S. Dunn and Jamie
McMinn

60. Chairing the Academic Department - Michael L. Stoloff and Nathalie Coté

61. Assessing the Psychology Curriculum: A Primer for Faculty and Administrators -Claudia J. Stanny

62. Academic Program Reviews in Psychology - Dana S. Dunn, Jane S. Halonen, Suzanne C. Baker, and Maureen A.
McCarthy

63. Preparing for Postcampus Life: Late Career Issues and Retirement - G. William Hill IV

PART 6. Emerging Topics

64. How to Create a Better Future Using the Quality Principles for Undergraduate Education - Diane F. Halpern and Heather A. Butler

65. Psychological Literacy in Undergraduate Psychology Education - Jacquelyn Cranney, Suzanne Morris, and
Lorayne Botwood

66. Psychology as a STEM Discipline: Issues and Prospects for Undergraduate Education - Tyler Lorig and William B. Dragoin

67. The Promise of Psychology Education - Dana S. Dunn

Index

The Oxford Handbook of Undergraduate Psychology Education

Dana S. Dunn

Oxford Library of Psychology

Author Information

Dana S. Dunn (B.A., Carnegie Mellon University; Ph.D., University of Virginia) is Professor of Psychology and Assistant Dean for Special Projects at Moravian College. A social psychologist by training, his scholarship examines teaching, learning, and liberal education, as well as the social psychology of disability. Dunn received the Charles L. Brewer Award for Distinguished Teaching of Psychology from the American Psychological Foundation in 2013. He is Editor-in-Chief of Oxford Bibliographies: Psychology.

Contributors:

Kevin J. Apple
Department of Psychology
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA

Suzanne C. Baker
Department of Psychology
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA

Jennifer L. Bazar
Waypoint Center for Mental Health Care and Department of Psychiatry
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada

Mukul Bhalla
Department of Psychology
Argosy University
Washington, DC

Bernard C. Beins
Ithaca College
Department of Psychology
Ithaca, NY

Lorayne Botwood
School of Psychology
University of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia

Susan Burns
Department of Academic Affairs
Morningside College
Sioux City, IA

William Buskist
Department of Psychology
Auburn University
Auburn, Alabama

Heather A. Butler
Department of Psychology
California State University Fullerton
Fullerton, CA

Madhur Chandra
College of Education
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI

Siddharth Chandra
Department of Psychology
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI

Stephen L. Chew
Department of Psychology
Samford University
Birmingham, Alabama

Andrew Christopher
Department of Psychology
Albion College
Albion, MI

Stephanie Clancy Dollinger
Department of Psychology
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL

Nathalie Coté
Department of Psychology
Belmont Abbey College
Belmont, NC

Jacquelyn Cranney
School of Psychology
University of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia

David B. Daniel
Department of Psychology
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA

Florence Denmark
Department of Psychology
Pace University
New York, NY

Lisabeth Fisher DiLalla
Department of Psychology
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL

Wiliam B. Dragoin
Department of Psychology
Georgia Southwestern State University
Americus, GA

Dana S. Dunn
Department of Psychology
Moravian College
Bethlehem, PA

Amy Fineburg
Assistant Principal
Oak Mountain High School
Birmingham, AL

Diane Finley
Department of Psychology
Prince George's Community College
Largo, MD

Paige H. Fisher
Department of Psychology
Seton Hall University,
South Orange, New Jersey

Vince Flynn
Corps Member
Teach for America
Omaha, NE

Amanda H. R. Franco,
Instituto de Educação
Universidade do Minho
Braga, Portugal

Catherine Franssen
Department of Psychology
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA

Magdalena Galazyn
Department of Psychology
City University of New York
New York, NY

R. Brian Giesler
Department of Psychology
Butler University
Indianapolis, IN

Gretchen Hanson Gotthard
Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience
Muhlenberg College
Allentown, PA

Regan A. R. Gurung
Department of Psychology
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Green Bay, WI

Jane S. Halonen
Department of Psychology
University of West Florida
Pensacola, FL

Diane F. Halpern
Department of Psychology
Claremont McKenna College
Claremont, CA

Elizabeth Yost Hammer
Department of Psychology
Xavier University of Louisiana
New Orleans, LA

Elliott Hammer
Department of Psychology
Xavier University of Louisiana
New Orleans, LA

Mitchell M. Handelsman
Department of Psychology
University of Colorado-Denver
Denver, Colorado

Martin Heesacker
Department of Psychology
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL

G. William Hill IV
Department of Psychology
Kennesaw State University
Kennesaw, Georgia

EiEi Hlaing
Department of Psychology
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL

Jeffrey D. Holmes
Department of Psychology
Ithaca College
Ithaca, NY

Jeremy Ashton Houska
Behavioral and Historical Studies
Centenary College
Hackettstown, NJ

Matthew T. Huss
Psychology Department
Creighton University
Omaha, NE

Sarah K. Johnson
Department of Psychology
Moravian College
Bethlehem, PA

Jared Keeley
Department of Psychology
Mississippie State University
Mississippi State, Mississippi

Ken Keith
College of Arts and Sciences
University of San Diego
San Diego, CA

Mary E. Kite
Department of Psychology
Ball State University
Muncie, IN

Radhika Krishnadas
Associate Vice-President Curriculum & Assessment
Argosy University
Orange,

Jaime Kurtz
Department of Psychology
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA

R. Eric Landrum
Department of Psychology
Boise State University
Boise, ID

Frederick Leong
Department of Psychology
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI

Ronald F. Levant
Department of Psychology
University of Akron
Akron, OH

Linh Nguyen Littleford
Department of Psychology
Ball State University
Muncie, IN

Tyler Lorig
Neuroscience Program
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, VA

Pam Marek
Department of Psychology
Kennesaw State University
Kennesaw, GA

Debra Mashek
Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts
Harvey Mudd College
Claremont, CA

Maureen McCarthy
Department of Psychology
Kennesaw State University
Kennesaw, GA

Jamie McMinn
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
Westminster College
New Wilmington, PA

Thomas McGovern
College of Arts and Sciences
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ

Diana M. Milillo
Department of Psychology
Nassau Community College
Garden City, NY

Richard Miller
Department of Psychology
University of Nebraska Kearney
Kearney, NE

Marianne Miserandino
Department of Psychology
Arcadia University
Glenside, PA

Beth Morling
Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
University of Delaware
Newark, DE

Kathryn A. Morris
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
Butler University
Indianapolis, IN

Suzanne Morris
School of Psychology
University of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia

Gary Muir
Department of Psychology
St. Olaf College
Northfield, MN

Annemarie I. Murphy
Department of Psychology
Sacred Heart University
Fairfield, CT

Shane M. Murphy
Department of Psychology
Western Connecticut State University
Danbury, CT

Michael E. Nielsen
Department of Psychology
Georgia Southern University
Statesboro, GA

Susan A. Nolan
Department of Psychology
Seton Hall University
South Orange, NJ

Michele Paludi
School of Management
Union Graduate College
Schenectady, NY

Sherrie L. Parks
Department of Psychology
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL

Wade Pickren
Department of Psychology
Pace University
Westchester, NY

Steven Prentice-Dunn
Department of Psychology
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL

Monica Reis-Bergan
Department of Psychology
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA

Aaron S. Richmond
Psychology
Metropolitan State University of Denver
Denver, CO

Katherine Richmond
Psychology Department
Muhlenberg College
Allentown, PA

Elise M. Rittenhouse
Department of Psychology
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Green Bay, WI

Alexandra Rutherford
Faculty of Health
York University
Toronto, Canada

Bryan K. Saville
Department of Psychology
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA

Mark J. Sciutto
Department of Psychology
Muhlenberg College
Allentown, PA

Michelle E. Schmidt
Department of Psychology
Moravian College
Bethlehem, PA

Beth M. Schwartz
Department of Psychology
Randolph College
Lynchburg, VA

Christopher F. Silver
Affect and Emotion Laboratory
University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Knoxville, TN

Randolph A. Smith
Department of Psychology
Lamar University
Beaumont, TX

Claudia J. Stanny
Department of Psychology
University of Western Florida
Pensacola, FL

Karin Stenberg
College of Human Ecology
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY

Robert J. Sternberg
Human Development, College of Human Ecology
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY

Jennifer Stiegler-Balfour
Reading Comprehension & Cognition Lab
University of New England
Biddeford, ME

Michael L. Stoloff
Department of Psychology
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA

Jeffrey R. Stowell
Psychology Department
Eastern Illinois University
Charleston, IL

Elizabeth Swenson
Department of Psychological Science
John Carroll University
University Heights, OH

Howard Iver Thorsheim
Department of Psychology
St. Olaf College
Northfield, MN

Jennifer M. Tomlinson
Department of Psychology
Carnegia Mellon University
Pittsburg, PA

Wayne Weiten
Department of Psychology
University of Nevada
Las Vegas, NV

Erik Wiertelak
Department of Psychology
Macalester College
Saint Paul, MN

William Douglas Woody
School of Psychological Sciences
University of Northern Colorado
Greeley, CO

Kevin Zabel
Department of Psychology
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN

Stacey B. Zaremba
Department of Psychology
Moravian College
Bethlehem, PA

Tracy E. Zinn
Department of Graduate Psychology
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA