Books and websites

Addresses introductory-course outcomes, course design, teacher development, and student success. Institutional cases show how the APA initiative was applied in different US teaching settings.

Teaching use: Compare a course goal with the task used to assess it.

Covers course preparation, the first classes, grading, technology, teaching evaluation, and teaching abroad. Its remit extends beyond the introductory survey to the work of teaching psychology.

Teaching use: Compare your plans for the first class, grading, technology, and course evaluation.

An introductory-course collection organized around class structure, access and inclusion, and assessment. Chapters include content selection, open science, collaborative work, cultural psychology, and assignment design.

Teaching use: Choose one teaching problem and compare the relevant chapter with your present lesson or assignment.

Combines a history of the introductory course with preparation, topic-specific teaching, and end-of-course reflection. Chapters cover the major domains usually encountered in a survey course.

Teaching use: Compare an older teaching approach with current evidence and examples for the same topic.

A topic-organized collection for instructors teaching introductory psychology for the first time. It addresses students with varied interests, preparation, and reasons for taking the course.

Teaching use: Use a topic chapter to identify a lesson goal, activity, and assessment, then check the underlying evidence.

Describes psychology courses taught asynchronously, synchronously, and through mixed delivery. Foundational-course chapters sit alongside elective and advanced examples; planned online courses and pandemic adaptations both appear.

Teaching use: Compare how one activity’s purpose, instructions, and feedback change when it moves online.

Examines psychology teaching in UK and European higher education. Topics include student needs, statistics, research projects, assessment, online learning, and teaching psychology to other disciplines.

Teaching use: Compare assumptions about students, course structure, and assessment with those in US teaching guides.

Examines how psychology instructors define, teach, and assess critical thinking. Its examples range from introductory courses to methods, statistics, and advanced study.

Teaching use: Turn a broad critical-thinking aim into a task with observable criteria for evaluating evidence.

Provides teaching exercises on graphs, variables, confounds, uncertainty, research design, and ethics. The publisher organizes activities by topic, course level, and time required.

Teaching use: Select a task on confounds or graphs and compare its demands with your students’ methods knowledge.

An introductory survey covering psychological science, biological processes, cognition, development, social behavior, health, disorders, and treatment. Online chapters and a downloadable edition allow teachers to inspect reading length and topic sequence.

Teaching use: Map required topics and reading load before choosing supplemental examples.

A Canadian introductory text assembled from original material and adapted open resources. Its contents include chapter self-tests and a section on the replication crisis.

Teaching use: Compare chapter structure, examples, and self-tests with your current reading assignments.

A remixed introductory survey that draws on several open textbooks. Its organization provides a concrete example for examining representation and inclusion across a course’s readings.

Teaching use: Inspect whose research and experiences appear in a topic, then compare them with another textbook.