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Is there value in taking psycho-bio or clinical courses for IO Psychology students?

Some schools require students to take a certain number of courses that are specific to one branch of psychology or another regardless of whether the students' interest lies in that …
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Curving Student Exam Grades - Yes or No?

Here's a question for all you instructors out there: Do you curve student exam grades? If not, why not? If so, why? And if so, how exactly do you do it? I'm looking for specif …
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How can we get students more involved with work psychology outside of the classroom?

What are some assignments or exercises that you have used in the past which help to get students involved in work psychology outside of the classroom? I am looking for ideas that …
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What lessons from employee evaluations can be applied to evaluating students?

As discussed in this blog post, what can we take away from the business world when it comes to evaluating student performance?
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Is it wrong to shift classroom emphasis towards information literacy at the expense of facts?

Related to this blog post, there is an active tug of war going on in classrooms between the utility of learning information in and of itself and learning what to do with it. We hav …
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What is your favorite “correlation is not causation” example?

When explaining correlations, what example do you use to demonstrate that no matter how strong the correlation, one event/outcome does not necessarily cause the other?
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What is a good way to teach Criterion-Related Validity?

What's the best way to present criterion-related validity to undergrads? When I present it, it seems like they are so bogged down with the terminology, (oh no, not ANOTHER kind of …