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Congratulations to the NITOP 2025 Poster Award Winners


The Frank Costin Memorial Award for Excellence


Joyce Lacy

University at Buffalo - SUNY

Poster: "Student Versus Instructor Opinions of End-of-the-Semester Course Evaluations"

The Doug Bernstein Award

Courtney Stevens

Willamette University


Poster: Improving Critical Thinking in Intro Psych: A Freely Available, Research Validated Curriculum” 

The Scholarship for Teaching and Learning Award

Helena Mawdsley

Univ. of Florida

Poster: "Impact of Service Learning on Motivation, Engagement, and Purpose in Human Development Students"

Awards

Past Award Winners

Each year, the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology gives three awards.  One poster author per winning poster receives a certificate and a complimentary registration at a future NITOP conference. 

The Frank Costin Memorial Award for Excellence:  for the poster judged as best promoting quality teaching methods.

The Doug Bernstein Award:  for the poster judged as the most humorous, creative, or original, or as making the strongest contribution to the teaching of introductory psychology

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award: for the poster judged to be the most outstanding in terms of (a) the importance of the research question addressed, (b) the soundness of the research methodology employed, (c) the use of appropriate qualitative and/or statistical analyses, and (d) the clarity with which the implications of the research findings for teaching and learning are expressed.

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