This is a summary of Parenting Styles: The Four Styles of Parenting Author: Kendra Cherry Publication: About.com Psychology Click here to check the original version. This article summarizes Diana Baumrind’s foundational research on parenting styles and how later psychologists built on it, then walks through what each style tends to produce in children. Baumrind studied more … Read more
Publisher: Center for Civic Engagement, KVCC (Kalamazoo Valley Community College) The Supervisor Assessment Form is a service-learning evaluation template used by KVCC’s Center for Civic Engagement. A field supervisor at a student’s service-learning site fills it out to rate the student’s performance for a course. It collects basic identifying information: student name, service-learning site, supervisor’s … Read more
This is a summary of The Effect of the Guilty but Mentally Ill Verdict on the Outcome of a Jury Trial Author: Michael A. Eagan, Institution: Texas State University Click here for the original version This paper traces the insanity defense from its earliest roots through the modern Guilty but Mentally Ill (GBMI) verdict, then … Read more
This is a summary of Reconstructing Constructionism Authors: Richard Noss, University College London; James Clayson, American University of Paris Click here to check the original version. This paper argues that constructionism, the learning theory launched by Seymour Papert around 1980, needs to reconnect with its original epistemological foundations if it’s going to have any lasting effect … Read more
This is a summary of Chickering’s Seven Vectors of Student Development Explained Leticia L. De Larrosa Click here to check the original version. This paper walks through Arthur Chickering’s seven vectors theory, a well-known model of how college students develop identity, emotion, and independence over their years at a university. De Larrosa opens by placing … Read more
This is a summary of Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Limits of Social Constructionism Author: David Peterson, Sociology Department, Northwestern University Click here to check the original version. This paper pushes back on both strong social constructionism and strong nativism, using the concept of number as its test case. Peterson argues that neither side has it … Read more
This is a summary of Adolescent Storm and Stress, Reconsidered Author: Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, University of Maryland, College Park Publication: American Psychologist, Publisher: American Psychological Association Click here to check the original version. This paper revisits G. Stanley Hall’s 1904 claim that adolescence is inherently a time of “storm and stress.” Arnett argues that while Hall’s … Read more
This is a summary of Student Involvement: A Developmental Theory for Higher Education Alexander W. Astin, 1984, Journal of College Student Development Click here to check the original version. Astin built this theory to fix a real problem. Research on student development had grown scattered. Different researchers studied different variables, used different terms, and reached … Read more
This is a summary of an article written by Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, published in May 1999 in the American Psychologist journal. Click here to read the original version. For over a century, psychologists have debated whether adolescence is naturally a difficult stage of life. In 1904, psychologist G. Stanley Hall introduced the idea that adolescence … Read more
Everyone needs a PSI. The question is, why and how good is yours? PSI will directly impact your career, your finances, and your future. Believe me, it works like magic; I have seen people full of NSI (negative self-image) in high school, and it was sad to see how they got demotivated and dropped out … Read more