Some comments on Michael Sylvester's “attention factor”:
I have been teaching for only ten years or so, but much of what Dr. Sylvester says in his post hits me as intuitively correct. Then again, I have to wonder about some things.
He writes: “The generation of students today grew up with technol
Hi Chris: Still not entirely sure what we're disagreeing about, but on a
more conciliatory note, I agree wholeheatedly with your central point below.
Moreover, I've seen this issue garner surprisingly little discussion in the
SET literature. As an informal "existence proof" of sorts, as an
und
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Am of town right now and can't access some relevant references, but if
I recall correctly, the correlations between research productivity and
student evaluat
There are a number of questions being asked here. First, do people who
maintain a literacy on TOP do a better job teaching psychology? Of
course, student evaluations are useful to a certain extent but there need
to be other measurements, but what? And, if it is determined that reading
the litera
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Chris: We may have to agree to disagree (respectfully, of course...)
on this issue. The question before TIPS, as I understood it, was
whether teachers who conduct research tend to be more better (more
effective) teachers than those who don't.
It is you who glossed
Given the specificity of most
research these days, anyone’s specific research is only likely to have
relevance to a few parts of an undergrad class (not that some professors won’t
see relevance everywhere instead of discussing the broader content). And we
have all noticed how the reference
Multimedia formats in the classroom, I beleive, have dramatically helpoed
students learn. Some students prefer "visual" learning styles, etc. Powerpoint,
which I sus in nearly every lecture, helps students organize information (which
many underclassmen have a problem doing). Yes, detracts from s
This looks like one of those unanswerable questions. We all seem to have
personal experiences, and observations but, surprisingly, there is no
empirical evidence to support either position.
As Chris pointed out, being involved in a research program provides
experience and insights that can be bro
Just for fun (and because I needed a break from grading term papers) I
decided to do a comparison of the ratings found on Ratemyprofessor.com
between our college and the local research mill (UBC). To ensure more
stable ratings (and to make my task easier) I only included ratings
when the prof h
I was having a discussion with a colleague focused on the attention
span of modern day student.We seem to agree that students have a
short attention span.And this not only applies to
K-12 students,but also true of college students today.The generation
of students today grew up with technology th
Another perspective to gathering useful data would be to examine it at
the institutional level. For example, are institutions that promote a
teacher-scholar model (what we call it as my institution) better than
institutions that do not? So one fairly easy to answer question would be
"do top lib
Chris: We may have to agree to disagree (respectfully, of course...) on
this issue. The question before TIPS, as I understood it, was whether
teachers who conduct research tend to be more better (more effective)
teachers than those who don't. The research, as least when I last
looked at it, i
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Chris: I agree with some of what you say below, and I'm hardly an
apologist for SETs (student evaluations of teaching). But I think we
need to be careful not to make blanket dismisals of research, such as
the one in your paragraph below. SETs have a host of methodolo
Chris: I agree with some of what you say below, and I'm hardly an
apologist for SETs (student evaluations of teaching). But I think we
need to be careful not to make blanket dismisals of research, such as
the one in your paragraph below. SETs have a host of methodological
shortcomings, as we
I think Michael Sylvester is a bit off here. What he describes happens for
the majority of professors I know, regardless of their background. Yes,
African Americans face a lot of stereotype threat issues, but all of us
have fear of evaluation before tenure also, which makes us try our best in
all a
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So it's inconceivable that having other roles related to
research - such as, dissertation committee work, writing or reading
about current research because as a teacher one DOES value keeping up
with the field, would allow a teacher to convey the excitem
I heard something similar about the Dutch artist William DeKoonig. As his
memory deteriorated he went through a phase of painting the most beautiful roses
he'd ever done. Part of this was proposed to be due to the fact that he may have
felt that he was looking at something he'd never seen bef
Some time ago we discussed the case of the famous novelist Iris Murdoch,
whose descent into Alzheimer's was portrayed in the 2001 film _Iris_ by
the ineffable Judi Dench. Maloney et al last year published an
interesting analysis comparing Murdoch's last work to her earlier novels,
and found sub
Well, until the German dictionary that was started by the Brothers Grimm was
completed,
the prevailing language of the nobility and court, as in all the other Germanic
states,
was French. It was primarily Goethe in the 18th century who drew attention to
the need
for a cultural independence from
In a message dated 4/9/2006 7:17:37 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
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My point
(once again) was not that students will *enjoy* researcher-teachers better
but, rather, that the kind of practical laboratory experience a researcher has
makes possible a different *kind
I think that Mike points out something that is very important. For the most part, full-time, tenure track faculty spend most of their teaching time with upper-level undergraduate majors or graduate students while much of the most basic course teaching (Intro in particular) is taught by graduate st
In response to Nancy, let me say that nothing I said was intended to
insult or denigrate anyone. Indeed, I said it as a person who does not
spend much of his own time in labs anymore. (Recently I've been
spending more of my time doing historical research, a whole other kind
of praxis that doesn
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>The Grimms were scholars. In fact, they were lexicographers. Their
>initial intent was to
>devise a written grammar and dictionary to form a base for a
The Grimms were scholars. In fact, they were lexicographers. Their initial
intent was to
devise a written grammar and dictionary to form a base for a then common oral
Germany
language that would replace French as the dominant cultural language in the
quest for a
German national identity that w
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