Wow.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/12/21/my_lazy_american_students/?p1=Well_MostPop_Emailed1
Beth Benoit
Granite State College
Plymouth State University
New Hampshire
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And an article that might worthwhile sharing with our social psychology
students when we cover outgroup homogeneity bias:
http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/articles/2009/12/21/through_inuit_eyes/
Beth Benoit
Granite State College
Plymouth State University
New Hampshire
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It is my understanding that Darwin almost did not make the trip on the HMS
Beagle.The captain did not not want him on the ship because he did not like the
look of Darwin.s nose.Just imagine if he did not make the trip we would perhaps
never have THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES and the creationists would
Beth Benoit wrote:
Wow.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/12/21/my_lazy_american_students/?p1=Well_MostPop_Emailed1
So, what does your wow mean, Beth? Does this strike you as surprising?
Outrageous? Offensive? It seems pretty much common knowledge to
���Re the article on the Inuit that Beth Benoit cited:
http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/articles/2009/12/21/through_inuit_eyes/
I'm sure some of the mores of the Inuit are very strange to Americans
or Europeans, but with several of the examples in the article I find it
strange that the author
I had noted that two notable recent papers on Darwin's
mysterious debilitating illness, Campbell and Matthews (2005)
and Hayman (2009) both claimed that Darwin's illness started
before he sailed on the Beagle at the end of 1831.
Allen Esterson gave it his usual thorough going-over, and
On 21 Dec 2009 at 13:49, Allen Esterson wrote:
Re the article on the Inuit that Beth Benoit cited:
http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/articles/2009/12/21/through_inuit_eyes/
I'm sure some of the mores of the Inuit are very strange to Americans
or Europeans, but with several of the examples
I heard that this was not an unusual practice in Europe.
Michael omnicentric Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
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At my university, the undergraduate catalog defines grades this way:
A -- excellent
B -- good
C -- average
D -- barely passed
F -- failed
I -- incomplete
So, C is average, eh? To check this definition I downloaded
all grades for undergraduate courses for the just completed
I'm not sure but I think Chris fell out of the wrong side of the bed this
morning. His comments below seem somewhat relevant to the content
of the article that Beth provides a link to but without more information
about the students the article writer is talking about, it is unclear
whether
The mean GPA for our psychology majors at Emory is around a 3.4. No wonder so
many of them become incensed at me when I give them Bs or even B pluses in
their classes; I'm lowering most of their grade point averages. ...Scott
Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D.
Professor
Editor, Scientific Review of
Before we start engaging in Who's got the Biggest Grade Inflation
Problem, perhaps it should be noted that grade inflation is a
widespread phenomenon, why it even occurs in *GASP!*
Canada! Certainly not definitive but one should take a look at
the Wikipedia entry on grade inflation (standard
Make Palij wrote:
The reason for this appeared to be that students could drop a course without
consequence up to the 12th or so week in the semester. So, students who saw
that they were failing going in the final weeks could drop the course with
their G.P.A. unaffected.
My earlier remarks were remarkably intemperate. I apologize to anyone
who was offended. I think the dissonance caused by the various political
failures of late that have been declared to be victories (e.g., climate,
health, war) has gotten to me more than I realized.
Have nice holiday
Beware, rant ahead, only you can determine if it is a righteous rant or not.
The problem appears to me to be determined by three interacting factors: 1)
student evaluations of faculty (at least, them being given such heavy weight at
some institutions compared to other criteria for RPT*), 2)
Christopher D. Green wrote:
Beth Benoit wrote:
Wow.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/12/21/my_lazy_american_students/?p1=Well_MostPop_Emailed1
I got an interesting lesson in this issue from my son -- prior to
Beth's post. He was home from a
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:31:54 -0800, William Scott wrote:
Make Palij wrote:
The reason for this appeared to be that students could drop a course without
consequence up to the 12th or so week in the semester. So, students who saw
that they were failing going in the final weeks could drop the
I sort of like the idea except that there are so very many variables that go
into each class's grades--which class it is (I have lower grades in lower
division courses and in research methods sections), what type of pedagogy is
used; what types of assessments are used; some people give extra
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