ILLOWA
39th Annual Undergraduate Psychology Conference
Hosted by The Department of Psychology
(AND)
Saturday April 28, 2012
This past weekend, my colleagues and I went to Eureka College in Illinois, to watch undergraduate students present their research at a conference called Illowa, while also taking our undergraduate psychology students.
Wow! That's what I have to say. What a great experience to be able to watch these students present some very interesting studies! The topics ranged from: GPA and college life involvement, reading comprehension and ebooks, drinking and academic behavior, to obesity and discrimination and many other ones. It was such a pleasure to watch these students present their findings, or lack thereof, and watching them talk about their ideas and how they tested those ideas was priceless.
More activities like that should be part of undergraduate education. Students should be able to experience this form of education more often. Learning is more than just books and a teacher in a classroom. Learning is also the development of critical thinking, that we as educators, can help students develop with activities such as Illowa.
