The Teaching of Psychology through learning activities from a multidisciplinary approach: increasing motivation and performance La enseñanza de la Psicología a través de actividades desde una perspectiva multidisciplinar: aumento de la motivación y rendimiento

dc.creator	José A. Muela
dc.creator	Ana García-León
dc.creator	José M. Augusto
dc.creator	Esther López-Zafra
dc.date	2010-05-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:08:50Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:08:50Z
dc.identifier	1888-8992
dc.identifier	1989-2209
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/edc1d967ec76428cbf1553ed969e6885
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/12309
dc.description	Learning activities may affect specific aspects of certain disciplines and an effort to increase motivation in our students is needed. This study deals with an activity in which students handle content close to two Psychology subjects (Personality and Social Psychology). The main aim was to relate concepts that are approach from the two disciplines by different, but similar, points of view and to increase students&rsquo; motivation by their active implication in a learning activity. Students conducted real research which managed theoretical content of these two courses. Two groups of students (experimental and control) participated in this study (N=286). Our results show a significant increase of the participants in this experiment in academic performance in both courses. Participants in this activity have achieved better final grades than their non-participant peers (in both disciplines), and also improved their own performance, enhancing their grades in comparison with the ones they obtained in the first semester. Finally, our results show that there is an increase in performance with these methodologies, even when the subjective assessment of students about their motivation is not so positive. Las actividades de aprendizaje en la ense&ntilde;anza superior deben tener en cuenta que puede afectar a m&aacute;s de una disciplina y que es importante incrementar tanto la motivaci&oacute;n como el rendimiento. Nuestro trabajo consisti&oacute; en un experimento en el que se integraban conocimientos de dos materias (Psicolog&iacute;a de la Personalidad y Psicolog&iacute;a Social). Estas materias abordan algunos conceptos comunes y se pretendi&oacute; aumentar la motivaci&oacute;n de los alumnos implic&aacute;ndolos activamente en esta actividad que consisti&oacute; en un experimento real. Participaron dos grupos (experimental y control) (N=286). Nuestros resultados muestran un incremento significativo en el rendimiento en las dos materias para los alumnos del grupo experimental. Adem&aacute;s, consiguieron mejores notas e incrementaron su rendimiento, incluso aunque su evaluaci&oacute;n subjetiva sobre su motivaci&oacute;n no fuera tan positiva.
dc.language	Spanish
dc.language	English
dc.relation	http://www.ejep.es/index.php/journal/article/view/44
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1888-8992
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1989-2209
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND
dc.source	European Journal of Education and Psychology, Vol 3, Iss 1 (2010)
dc.subject	Entrenamiento en habilidades, actividad de aprendizaje, motivación, rendimiento.
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Psychology
dc.subject	BF1-990
dc.subject	Philosophy. Psychology. Religion
dc.subject	B
dc.subject	DOAJ:Psychology
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Psychology
dc.subject	BF1-990
dc.subject	Philosophy. Psychology. Religion
dc.subject	B
dc.subject	DOAJ:Psychology
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Psychology
dc.subject	BF1-990
dc.subject	Philosophy. Psychology. Religion
dc.subject	B
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Psychology
dc.subject	BF1-990
dc.subject	Philosophy. Psychology. Religion
dc.subject	B
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Psychology
dc.subject	BF1-990
dc.subject	Philosophy. Psychology. Religion
dc.subject	B
dc.title	The Teaching of Psychology through learning activities from a multidisciplinary approach: increasing motivation and performance La enseñanza de la Psicología a través de actividades desde una perspectiva multidisciplinar: aumento de la motivación y rendimiento
dc.type	article