Undergraduates’ Ability to Recognize Correlational and Causal Language Before and After Explicit Instruction

Teaching of Psychology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 288-293

  Mueller, Jon F ^a   Coon, Heather M ^a  

^a NORTH CENTRAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

causation; correlation; critical thinking; introductory psychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890217214     PISSN: 00986283     EISSN: 15322802     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0098628313501038     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. American Psychological Association. (2007). APA guidelines for the undergraduate psychology major. Washington, DC: Author. Retrieved from http://www.apa.org/ed/precollege/about/psymajor-guidelines.pdf
2. Bartsch R. A. Engelhardt Bittner W. M. Moreno J. E. Jr (2008). A design to improve internal validity of assessments of teaching demonstrations. Teaching of Psychology, 35, 357–359. doi:10.1080/00986280802373809
3. Bensley D. A. Crowe D. S. Bernhardt P. Buckner C. Allman A. L. (2010). Teaching and assessing critical thinking skills for argument analysis in psychology. Teaching of Psychology, 37, 91–96. doi:10.1080/00986281003626656
4. Boneau C. A. (1990). Psychological literacy: A first approximation. American Psychologist, 45, 891–900. doi:10.1037/0003-066X.45.7.891
5. Connor-Greene P. A. (1993). From the laboratory to the headlines: Teaching critical evaluation of press reports of research. Teaching of Psychology, 20, 167–169. doi:10.1207/s15328023top2003_8
6. Hall S. S. Seery B. L. (2006). Behind the facts: Helping students evaluate media reports of psychological research. Teaching of Psychology, 33, 101–104. doi:10.1207/s15328023top3302_4
7. McLean C. P. Miller N. A. (2010). Changes in critical thinking skills following a course on science and pseudoscience: A quasi-experimental study. Teaching of Psychology, 37, 85–90. doi:10.1080/00986281003626714
8. National Science Board. (2010). Science and engineering indicators: 2010. Retrieved from http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind10/
9. Nelkin D. (1995). Selling science: How the press covers science and technology. New York, NY: W. H. Freeman.
10. Norris S. P. Phillips L. M. Korpan C. A. (2003). University students’ interpretation of media reports of science and its relationship to background knowledge, interest, and reading difficulty. Public Understanding of Science, 12, 123–145. doi:10.1177/09636625030122001
11. Stanovich K. E. (2010). How to think straight about psychology (9th ed.). Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
12. Walvoord B. E. Pool K. J. (1998). Enhancing pedagogical productivity. In Groccia J. E. Miller J. E. (eds.), Enhancing productivity: Administrative, instructional, and technological strategies (pp. 35–48). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
13. Zechmeister J. S. Zechmeister E. B. (2000). Introductory textbooks and psychology's core concepts. Teaching of Psychology, 27, 6–11. doi:10.1207/S15328023TOP2701_1