Mark E. Ware

Career Versatility of the Psychology Major: A Survey of Graduates

Analysis of graduates by training level, sex, and Hollands occupational types shows a wide choice of jobs after graduation.

Career Development: Evaluating a New Frontier for Teaching and Research.

A case is made for treating the subject in terms of an intellectual experience, and a favorable student evaluation of the course is shown.

Team Teaching Introductory Psychology as Pedagogy and for Faculty Development

If you plan to try team teaching, perhaps this experience will provide some helpful hints on values and problems.

Stimulating Career Exploration and Research Among Undergraduates: A Colloquium Series

The most frequent question asked of advisors in psychology was answered in this department by an ongoing undergraduate colloquium program.

Life Styles Inventory: evidence for its factorial validity

The primary objective of the present study was to assess the stability and generality of the Level I: Life Styles Inventorys factor structure. The importance of the objective emerged from a discrepancy between the conceptual model and the inventorys derived factor structure. This self-report inventory was constructed to measure 12 thinking patterns or life styles and is used by business managers for organizational and individual development. Analysis of the data from 116 college students yielded a three-factor solution that was similar in communalities, percent variance accounted for, and factor pattern coefficients to those from the one previous study. The factors were People/Security, Satisfaction, and Task/Security. Those similarities existed despite differences between the studies in subjects, method of extraction, and sample size. Evidence supported a conclusion for the factor invariance and generality of the inventory.

The APA Centennial and Teaching History of Psychology.

The purpose of this annotated bibliography is to stimulate interest in and promote scholarly activity about teaching history of psychology. We organized 56 articles into three categories: projects, perspectives, and evaluations. This literature on teaching history of psychology is a source of valuable reference material for teachers and scholars. The most glaring need is for thorough evaluative research.

The role of name desirability in Person perception

ABSTRACT We designed three studies to demonstrate the role of first name desirability in person perception. Our subjects were American undergraduate students at Creighton University in Nebraska. Experiment 1 failed to find the predicted interaction between name desirability and physical attractiveness. Experiments 2 and 3 subsequently attempted to determine the conditions under which name desirability would influence social judgments. These experiments indicated that the name desirability effect is low in external validity and more complex than previously described. The effect may depend on the favorability of the targets name and the specific dimensions on which the social judgments are made.

STRATEGIES FOR EVALUATING FIELD-PLACEMENT PROGRAMS

This investigation describes two studies that evaluated the influence of undergraduate field-placement programs, using treatment and no-treatment comparison groups who were pre- and posttested on measures of inter-and intra-personal as well as career attitudes. No consistent differences between groups were noted. The investigation pointed out the need for data-based studies and the promise of a skills-assessment approach for evaluating field-placement programs.

Taking the Pulse of Undergraduate Health Psychology: A Nationwide Survey

We conducted a random national survey of 100 doctoral, 100 comprehensive, and 100 baccalaureate institutions to determine the current state of the undergraduate health psychology course. We found clear evidence of a maturing course with much greater commonality in name (health psychology), theoretical foundation (the biopsychosocial model), and course content (e.g., smoking, heart disease, stress, chronic illness) than reported in the past. Also indicative of growth, 33% of all schools compared offered the course compared to only a quarter of schools offering the course 2 decades ago. Finally, we discuss the current state of health psychology and summaries of course content and teaching strategies.

Promoting the Adviser's Role

An abundance of literature de scribes suggestions for teaching and expectations for scholarship. For example, Browne and Keeley (1985) offer advice to new teachers who aspire to excellence in their profession. And while Weaver (1986) acknowledges the primacy of teaching at institutions that do not possess a commitment to re search, he nevertheless argues convinc ingly for scholarship, broadly defined. Advising, which is an additional de mand for most teachers at the collegiate level, receives disproportionately less at tention in the educational literature. Moreover, many colleges and universi ties provide their faculty with minimal information about advising limits and the amount of time that it can require. A common experience finds new teachers with some printed materials such as the university catalog and departmental or college forms, and a list of academic ad visees. In short, teachers too often have only their own experience as advisees as a guide.1 The purpose of this article is to de scribe four ways to make advising more productive by preparing for the first meeting, integrating course selections and career plans, promoting coll?gial support, and serving as surrogate parent.