RE: Subject: Re: [tips] grade inflation at Harvard and other places
Hi The Flynn Effect is a change in raw scores that requires re-norming to maintain average IQ at 100. It is not due to norming and hence would apply to academic performance. Indeed, tests like PISA have been used to document the Flynn Effect. For those interested, the journal Intelligence had a special issue on the effect last year. Here's Flynn's closing paragraph of his comment paper. Everyone concedes that people altered when the Enlightenment banished a mindset that tried animals in court and believed in witches. Did the alteration of our minds stop dead in 1900? We freed ourselves from fixation on the concrete and entered a world in which the mass of people began to use logic on abstractions and universalize their moral principles. Living our lives day by day, we take modernity for granted. The very existence of the modern world is astonishing. I refer not to the internet or the air travel or the organ transplants but to altered human beings and altered minds. Collectively the scholars in this volume are beginning to write the cognitive history of the 20th century. Take care Jim Jim Clark Professor Chair of Psychology U Winnipeg Room 4L41A 204-786-9757 204-774-4134 Fax From: Mike Wiliams [jmicha5...@aol.com] Sent: December-05-13 11:32 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Subject: Re: [tips] grade inflation at Harvard and other places Hello All, I think its possible we are trying to enforce variance that does not exist among students. All or most of the students can actually have a mastery of the material in the courses and deserve A's. This is theoretically possible and likely happens at a University like Harvard. I have also observed this in medical school. The students who finally get in are studying and test-taking machines. They work extremely hard and actually know the material. Instead of making tests that accurately measure this, they are given horribly designed test items that have ambiguous multiple choice options and K-type questions etc. The variance on the test that forces the grades into a normal curve has nothing to do with the course content. The variance is attributable to test taking skill. Most of them should get A's and we need to live with it. Why is it so important to enforce a bell curve? The Flynn effect is not applicable since grades are not normed. The norms of an IQ test are updated. The content may change but this has nothing to do with the Flynn effect. I am not convinced of the Flynn effect anyway. It was discovered essentially by accident and we never had a sufficient longitudinal study. It should be called the Flynn suggestion. Can you imagine how bad the grading would be if we graded by norms and only assigned a standard score? We could end up failing students because they performed less than peers even when they mastered the course. Mike Williams Drexel University --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13251.645f86b5cec4da0a56ffea7a891720c9n=Tl=tipso=31045 or send a blank email to leave-31045-13251.645f86b5cec4da0a56ffea7a89172...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=31047 or send a blank email to leave-31047-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] How One Instructor Got Students to Pay Attention to Class Rules | Inside Higher Ed
Ahhh yes, what we won't try to make it entertaining (for us too) and to grab their attention. I did a rap (once), sing the Freud song when covering Personality, and do magic tricks in all classes. Key issue is that class policy. Make it clear and apply consistently. I have reduced absences, very few make-ups and rare to no cellphone interruptions. Don't think I want to try to rap anymore, but the pink hat? H G.L. (Gary) Peterson,Ph.D Psychology@SVSU On Dec 6, 2013, at 10:03 AM, Christopher Green chri...@yorku.ca wrote Those of you who are terribly concerned about students showing up to every class, doing so on time, and not browsing or texting during class: You may wish to consider this approach to informing them of the rules. (Be sure to bring your pink hat) http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/12/06/how-one-instructor-got-students-pay-attention-class-rules Chris --- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada chri...@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ = --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: peter...@svsu.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13445.e3edca0f6e68bfb76eaf26a8eb6dd94bn=Tl=tipso=31052 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-31052-13445.e3edca0f6e68bfb76eaf26a8eb6dd...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=31057 or send a blank email to leave-31057-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Psychological phenomena in dead people
Hi all, I sent this to another listserv this morning, so I apologize to those who are getting it again. I also hope that this topic hasn't already been discussed here (I don't pay as much attention to TIPS as I'd like to). Yesterday, I was trying to catch up on some reading while giving a test and came across the article cited below. It made me wonder if the APA should add a requirement for the accreditation of clinical psychology programs--something focused on the treatment of those who have passed from the physical realm, but who still suffer from severe mental disorders. It would seem that the focus should be on psychotherapy--excuse me, I meant to write psi-chotherapy--since psi-chiatric meds seem unlikely to help the incorporeal. de Almeida Ferreira, W. (2013). Psychological phenomena in dead people: Post-traumatic stress disorder in murdered people and its consequences to public health. Australian Journal of Parapsychology, 13, 37-56. Abstract: The aims of this paper are to narrate and analyze some psychological phenomena that I have perceived in dead people, including evidence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in murdered people. The methodology adopted was “projection of consciousness” (i.e., a non-ordinary state of consciousness), which allowed me to observe, interact, and interview dead people directly as a social psychologist. This investigation was based on Cartesian skepticism, which allowed me a more critical analysis of my experiences during projection of consciousness. There is strong evidence that a dead person: (i) continues living, thinking, behaving after death as if he/she still has his/her body because consciousness continues in an embodied state as ‘postmortem embodied experiences’; (ii) may not realize for a considerable time that he/she is already dead since consciousness continues to be embodied after death (i.e., ‘postmortem perturbation’—the duration of this perturbation can vary from person to person, in principle according to the type of death, and the level of conformation), and (iii) does not like to talk, remember, and/or explain things related to his/her own death because there is evidence that many events related to death are repressed in his/her unconscious (‘postmortem cognitive repression’). In addition, there is evidence that dying can be very traumatic to consciousness, especially to the murdered, and PTSD may even develop. Best, Jeff -- - Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology - Scottsdale Community College 9000 E. Chaparral Road Scottsdale, AZ 85256-2626 Office: SB-123 Phone: (480) 423-6213 Fax: (480) 423-6298 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=31058 or send a blank email to leave-31058-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] How One Instructor Got Students to Pay Attention to Class Rules | Inside Higher Ed
On Dec 6, 2013, at 9:30 AM, Gerald Peterson wrote: Ahhh yes, what we won't try to make it entertaining (for us too) and to grab their attention. I did a rap (once), sing the Freud song when covering Personality, and do magic tricks in all classes. Key issue is that class policy. Make it clear and apply consistently. I have reduced absences, very few make-ups and rare to no cellphone interruptions. Don't think I want to try to rap anymore, but the pink hat? H I sing my syllabus to the tune of Hound Dog and do a great imitation of The Pelvis dancing to it. But I make sure the guy with the camera films me only from the waist up. Jeff -- - Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology - Scottsdale Community College 9000 E. Chaparral Road Scottsdale, AZ 85256-2626 Office: SB-123 Phone: (480) 423-6213 Fax: (480) 423-6298 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=31059 or send a blank email to leave-31059-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] How One Instructor Got Students to Pay Attention to Class Rules | Inside Higher Ed
On 2013-12-06, at 12:14 PM, Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D. wrote: I sing my syllabus to the tune of Hound Dog and do a great imitation of The Pelvis dancing to it. But I make sure the guy with the camera films me only from the waist up. One question, Jeff. Do your students have any idea that you're imitating a long-dead, once-famous singer? Or do they assume that you came up with this act on your own. :-) Best, Chris --- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada chri...@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ = --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=31062 or send a blank email to leave-31062-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
