Re: State of TIPS address

[Paul Brandon]

At 3:07 PM -0500 1/31/01, Michael Sylvester wrote:
>
>I would like to add the following to the TIPS by-laws:
> During the first week of February,the list Administrator will post a
>summary of the current status of TIPS and projections for the future.
>The post should include but not limited to :
>-total of Tips membership
>-number of PhDs ,EDDs,PsyDs, and MAs,MSs etc.etc.SciDs
>-Geographic and International Countries represented
>- Amount of Blacks,Hispanics,Asian-Americans,Native Americans,Gays,
>  Women etc.etc
>- status of funding for Tips now and the future
>- how many people were kicked off the list
>- and any other issues relevant to the list and why?
>
>  Your suggestions please!

What makes you think that a listserv is a democracy?
You may certainly _request_!

* PAUL K. BRANDON   [EMAIL PROTECTED]  *
* Psychology Dept   Minnesota State University, Mankato *
* 23 Armstrong Hall, Mankato, MN 56001  ph 507-389-6217 *
*http://www.mankato.msus.edu/dept/psych/welcome.html*

State of TIPS address

[Michael Sylvester]

 
I would like to add the following to the TIPS by-laws:
 During the first week of February,the list Administrator will post a
summary of the current status of TIPS and projections for the future.
The post should include but not limited to :
-total of Tips membership
-number of PhDs ,EDDs,PsyDs, and MAs,MSs etc.etc.SciDs
-Geographic and International Countries represented
- Amount of Blacks,Hispanics,Asian-Americans,Native Americans,Gays,
  Women etc.etc
- status of funding for Tips now and the future
- how many people were kicked off the list
- and any other issues relevant to the list and why?
  
  Your suggestions please!

Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida

Re: Netiquette (now PDQB)

[Paul Brandon]

At 1:55 PM -0500 1/31/01, Ken Steele wrote:
>On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 10:21:12 -0600 Paul Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>
>> At 6:25 AM -0700 1/31/01, Jeff Ricker wrote:
>> >I was born in Massachattakatapequa, New York on February 29th, 1980. Having
>> >attained the Ph.D degree at the University of South Central North Dakota
>>
>> Is that the Hoople campus?
>>
>
>I have such fond memories of Hoople and the animal labs in the basement
>of the old Science building.  Occasionaly a rat would get loose and
>run up onto the water pipes that hung from the ceiling.

Did you weigh the rats on diatonic scales?

* PAUL K. BRANDON   [EMAIL PROTECTED]  *
* Psychology Dept   Minnesota State University, Mankato *
* 23 Armstrong Hall, Mankato, MN 56001  ph 507-389-6217 *
*http://www.mankato.msus.edu/dept/psych/welcome.html*

More History and Systems Books to be Given Away

[Mike Bergmire]

The following books are being given away:

MarxTheories in Contemporary Psychology

MarxTheories in Contemporary Psychology  (same book as listed
above)

Marx & Hillix   Systems and Theories in Psychology

Levitas The World of Psychology. (Volume One, The Worlds of
Perception, Man and His Emotions)

Woodworth & Sheehan Contemporary Schools of Psychology (3rd ed)

Same agreement as before.  I would like to be reimbursed for shipping
expenses.

Michael Bergmire
Psychology Department
Jefferson College
1000 Viking Drive
Hillsboro, MO 63050

(636) 797-3000 x347

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Netiquette (now USCND)

[Ken Steele]

On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 10:21:12 -0600 Paul Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:

> At 6:25 AM -0700 1/31/01, Jeff Ricker wrote:
> >I was born in Massachattakatapequa, New York on February 29th, 1980. Having
> >attained the Ph.D degree at the University of South Central North Dakota
> 
> Is that the Hoople campus?
> 
> * PAUL K. BRANDON   [EMAIL PROTECTED]  *
> * Psychology Dept   Minnesota State University, Mankato *
> * 23 Armstrong Hall, Mankato, MN 56001  ph 507-389-6217 *
> *http://www.mankato.msus.edu/dept/psych/welcome.html*
> 
> 

I have such fond memories of Hoople and the animal labs in the basement 
of the old Science building.  Occasionaly a rat would get loose and 
run up onto the water pipes that hung from the ceiling.

Ken


--
Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D.  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dept. of Psychology
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608

Giving Away Assessment and Measurement Books

[Mike Bergmire]

OK Tipsters,

Here are the books to be given away today.  Again I am trying to list books
somewhat topically so that a person will know if they are interested are
not.

Shaw & Wright   Scales for the Measurement of Attitudes

Goldman & Saunders  Directory of Unpublished Experimental Mental
Measures, Volume 1

Goldman & Busch Directory of Unpublished Experimental Mental Measures,
Volume 2

Gottschalk, Winget & Gleser Manual of Instructions for Using the
Gottschalk-Gleser Content Analysis  Scales:
Anxiety, Hostility, and Social Alienation-Personal
Disorganization

McReynolds (ed) Advances in Psychological Assessment (Volume 1)

Bass & Berg Objective Approaches to Personality Assessment

I would appreciate reimbursement for shipping costs.

(In fairness to all tipsters, I am staggering the times of submitting the
announcements of these give aways.  Stay tuned as there are quite a few more
books to be given away)

Michael Bergmire
Psychology Department
Jefferson College
1000 Viking Drive
Hillsboro, MO 63050

(636) 797-3000 x347

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: outlining

[Susan Shapiro]

Another way to approach this is to have them outline their first draft after
it is completed and use this to make revisions and see problems.

If your students are good at using a word processor, you can use the
outlining function to highlight paragraphs and put them at different levels.
I use this after drafting my own papers.

Suzi

Susan J. Shapiro
Department of Psychology
Indiana University East
2325 Chester Blvd
Richmond, IN 47374
(765) 973-8284
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[FACULTY] Seeing is believing

[Dr. Joyce Johnson]

EnJoyce
>
>This is for all the "do it yourself" people!!!
>
>Attachment Converted: "c:\eudora\attach\homedepot.doc"
>
 homedepot.doc




***
Dr. Joyce Johnson
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Developmental/ Experimental
Centenary College of Louisiana
PO Box 41188
2911 Centenary Blvd.
Shreveport, LA 71134-1188
homepage: 
office 318 869 5253
FAX 318 869 5004 Attn: Dr Johnson, Psychology

Netiquette and introductions

[David Campbell]

 As I read through the comments on introductions, I puzzled once
again about who appears to be missing from this list.  We see posts from
faculty in a variety of community colleges and lesser known universities
(like my own).  Yet rarely is there a post from a professor at one of
the elite universities (Harvard, Yale, Berkeley, Stanford).  Perhaps
teachers at the high-visibility schools don't have the time--yet they
generally teach  half the load of the typical TIPS poster, and they have
the most capable graduate students in the world as their research
assistants/TA's.  Perhaps they don't have the interest (focused on
research rather than teaching).  Perhaps they already have all the
answers and see no need to discuss issues of teaching philosophy and
technique.
 Just wondering...
  --Dave

--
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David E. Campbell, Ph.D.[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Department of PsychologyPhone: 707-826-3721
Humboldt State University   FAX:   707-826-4993
Arcata, CA  95521   www.humboldt.edu/~campbell/psyc.htm

outlining

[Annette Taylor]

Quoting Bobbie Turniansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

Hi Bobbie, thanks for the introduction.

And I'd like to second your other point--I also try to encourage students to 
write outlines, but I also never could do one very successfully--I find that 
listing my ideas, and then reorganizing them in some coherent fashion helps. so 
I encourage students to do some form of planning, whether outline or anything 
else. But I also find true outlining to be a problem for me.

annette
> 
> 2. The main point of this message is to respond to Nathalie's "outlining
> crusade".  Nathalie, I can only beg you to be flexible with this. Outlining
> is good for linear thinkers. Those, like me, who see structure only after
> the work is partially finished will grind to a halting stop if asked to
> make an outline.  Alternatively, they will write a secret first draft
> and then make you the outline.  I had a similar problem during my
> doctoral work and after 2 months I finally asked my instructor if he was
> more interested in the outline or the work.  Luckily, he answered the
latter.
> 
> Bobbie Turniansky
> Kaye College of Education
> Beer Sheva
> ISRAEL
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> - Original Message -
> From: "Nathalie Cote" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > I'm on a crusade this semester to encourage them
> > to write an outline before they write the first draft.

Re: Netiquette and introductions

[Paul Brandon]

At 6:25 AM -0700 1/31/01, Jeff Ricker wrote:
>I was born in Massachattakatapequa, New York on February 29th, 1980. Having
>attained the Ph.D degree at the University of South Central North Dakota

Is that the Hoople campus?

* PAUL K. BRANDON   [EMAIL PROTECTED]  *
* Psychology Dept   Minnesota State University, Mankato *
* 23 Armstrong Hall, Mankato, MN 56001  ph 507-389-6217 *
*http://www.mankato.msus.edu/dept/psych/welcome.html*

Re: The 5% solution

[Jeff Ricker]

I received several replies to my post yesterday, both on- and off-list, that
contained references. I thought that some of you might be interested in
getting the complete list.

Thanks to all who responded; and especially to those who provided the
following references (Paul Smith, Ken Steele, and Steve Prentice-DunnI
hope that I didn't forget anyone).

Jeff



McKeachie, W. J. (1960). Changes in scores on the Northwestern Misconceptions
Test in six elementary psychology courses. Journal of Educational Psychology,
51, 240-244.

Ellis, N.R., & Rickard, H.C. (1977). Evaluating the teaching introductory
psychology. Teaching of Psychology, 4, 128-132.

Vaughan, E. D. (1977). Misconceptions about psychology among introductory
psychology students. Teaching of Psychology, 4, 138-141.

Gutman, A. (1979). Misconceptions of psychology and performance in the
introductory course. Teaching of Psychology, 6, 159-161.

Gardner, R. M., & Dalsing, S. (1986). Misconceptions about psychology among
college students. Teaching of Psychology, 13, 32-34.

Griggs, R.A. & Ransdell, S. E. (1987). Misconceptions tests or misconceived
tests? Teaching of Psychology, 14, 210-214.

Rickard, H.C., Rogers, R.W., Ellis, N. R., & Beidleman, W. (1988). Some
retention, but not enough. Teaching of Psychology, 15, 151-152.

Messer, W. S. & Griggs, R. A. (1989). Student belief and involvement in the
paranormal and performance in introductory psychology. Teaching of Psychology,
16, 187-191.


--
Jeffry P. Ricker, Ph.D.  Office Phone:  (480) 423-6213
9000 E. Chaparral Rd.FAX Number: (480) 423-6298
Psychology Department[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Scottsdale Community College
Scottsdale, AZ  85256-2626

"Science must begin with myths and with the criticism of myths"
  Karl Popper

Listowner: Psychologists Educating Students to Think Skeptically (PESTS)
http://www.sc.maricopa.edu/sbscience/pests/index.html

Re: Netiquette and Introductions

[Mike Bergmire]

A lurker adds his two cents.

If you check the earliest archives of TIPS you will find that as people
joined the list they submitted an introduction.  This not only provided
interesting information but it also facilitated knowing people's special
areas of interest, which promoted the development of special interest
groups.  When I joined the list I went back and read all the Archives in
order to know what had previously been talked about and the general pattern
of communication.  Naturally the Archives are too lengthy to perform such a
feat now.

Oh, for the good old days of personalness and civility. 

Michael Bergmire
Psychology Department
Jefferson College
1000 Viking Drive
Hillsboro, MO 63050

(636) 797-3000 Ext. 347

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Netiquette and introductions

[Jeff Ricker]

Stephen Black wrote:

> While introductions are interesting and welcome, there`s nothing
> either in the the TIPS guidelines (see the TIPS website at the
> url in my signature file) or in our general practice which
> requires this. Many of us (ahem!) have never done so. So the
> blunder concern is unfounded. And if everyone who never
> introduced now rushed to do it, we`d really be in trouble.

Well, Stephen, I personally like the idea and now realize that I have never
told you much about myself. So let me get started.

I was born in Massachattakatapequa, New York on February 29th, 1980. Having
attained the Ph.D degree at the University of South Central North Dakota
(Visa and Master Card accepted) at the tender age of nine, I worked briefly
at Cornell, then Yale, and finally Harvard. (As you probably have guessed,
I purposely avoided working at any school that belonged to a sports
conference with a "Big" in its name.)

Desiring a real challenge, however, I applied to the Maricopa County
Community College District (Slogan: "We Put the Community in Community
College") in the Spring of 1994. I was overjoyed when I was hired on as an
assistant grounds keeper at Scottsdale Community College (home of the
Fighting Artichokes), and immediately set to work trying to move up the
hierarchy. Instead, the school quickly hit hard times (a summer brush fire
wiped out most of the grounds) and I was forced to take a job as an
instructor. Since all the real sciences already had enough instructors (the
other grounds keepers had more seniority than I), I was forced to teach
psychology.

Because I never had taken a psychology course before, I prepared for my
first teaching assignment by reading everything ever written by Dr. Joyce
Brothers, as well as watching any appearance that Abigail Van Buren had
ever made on the Mike Douglas Show. With a solid background in psychology
now under my belt, I felt confident that I would tbe a great teacher.

And boy, was I right! Now, I can't wait to run into that classroom each and
every day (including Saturdays and Sundays) unless the room is full of
students. Then, I try to show a video and trudge back to my office to have
a cigarette or two until it's over. We then spend the rest of the class
period mostly watching highlights from Jerry Springer and trying to figure
out what kinds of trauma the guests probably experienced in their past
lives.

I like to think that I am helping my students to get in touch with their
inner lost children. Hey, somebody's got to do it.

Peace and Love,

Jeff

P.S. Just in case anyone is wondering, I'm only having fun with this. I
definitely intended no disrespect to Bruce. In fact, I quite enjoyed
reading his introduction. Thanks, Bruce.
--
Jeffry P. Ricker, Ph.D.  Office Phone:  (480) 423-6213
9000 E. Chaparral Rd.FAX Number: (480) 423-6298
Psychology Department[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Scottsdale Community College
Scottsdale, AZ  85256-2626

"Science must begin with myths and with the criticism of myths"
  Karl Popper

Listowner: Psychologists Educating Students to Think Skeptically (PESTS)
http://www.sc.maricopa.edu/sbscience/pests/index.html