Ha, now I know why I once had this conversation with a student. She presented
this in all seriousness...
Student: You're one of the best teachers, so it doesn't make sense for you to
give me an F on this paper
Me: huh?
Student: You see, grades reflect a teacher's ability. You're really being har
Not a matter of time, but already here. At least in regard to college grading
and assessment (with that in place, there must be tutors out there as well).
For outsourced assessment take a peek at http://www.edumetry.com/
-Lenore Frigo
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In an intro psych text, we get these two items. Same chapter, different
sections:
a) The higher the body temperature, the more alert people are; the lower the
body temperature, the sleepier they are.
b) Warm room temperature can make a person sleepy.
Granted, body temperature and room temper
This is really a "depends" sort of question. Policies I have seen vary widely,
such as
For full time faculty:
-5 office hours per week, period.
-5 office hours per week, but varies depending on certain factors (e.g., can be
reduced if the instructor is spending more than X hours in classroom/lab
Yes and no...
Here's my anecdotal evidence. N = 3.
I simultaneously use words (English), tone of voice, and hand signals in
directing my dogs. When I switch to Spanish words (plus tone/hand signals) they
do pretty well but not as well as in English.
I had a student who had two dogs, one train
SAT scores correlate negatively with ZIP codes. New England has lower numbered
zip codes. So obviously it's something about the ZIP code causing the
differences in SAT scores. If you want to improve your SAT score, just move to
a place with a lower zip code (in fact, now that I've moved to Calif
"First, let me apologize for that totally boring thread title. It should, of
course, be "No canoodling in Kansas"."
Yes, and I suspect "canoodling" would ease through the spam filter a little
easier!
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Well, one of their goals is "To replace materialistic explanations with the
theistic understanding that nature and human beings are created by God." I
think we should embrace this notion and take it to its fullest implications.
Sure we can do theism, but we certainly cannot do theism representin
I do
have a little blurb in my syllabus about no cell phones on during class. It has
far less impact than this little exercise: on the first day of class, I ask the
students what are annoying things that happen in their classes. Among other
things, they list cell phones ringing. I say, "so,
Marc Carter wrote, "On a related note, does anyone know if it's possible to
develop an
aversion to a color? "
I recall from a class I took some time back: birds (pigeons?) more easily learn
acquired taste aversion based on the color of liquid rather than its flavor.
Rats the reverse.
Leno
"Third, isn't it backward for something
produced by illness to make you ill? In fact, after vomiting don't you
usually feel relief? Certainly, the physical result of illness could not
be a reliable predictor of illness."
My (disgusting) hypothesis: The smell of vomit is a UCS. It naturally cause
Similarly, most of the time on your computer, you can
quickly increase/decrease the font size if you have a roller-thingy on your
mouse (the thing you can spin with your finger that is between the
right and left click buttons--anyone have the name for this!?). Hold down the
CTRL key and reel
"The student was from the
Pacific rim."...
I'm not surprised. I once gave my students sample questions from the test for
U.S. citizenship. The only person who would have earned citizenship was
Canadian.
-Lenore Frigo
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What is the purpose of dropping the lowest test grade? It seems to lose any
purpose if the students don't know about it. For instance, if it is to
compensate for missed exams, the student would need to know you're dropping the
zero grade, else they'll hound you for a make-up. If dropping the lo
I have a new class online and am finding that the student work (essays) is on
average inferior to the face-to-face class. (Although I should note that in
both classes there has been both extremely good and poor work.) I suspect that
the weakness lies in that the students need the lecture info to
This is what I do to review in larger classes (although it's fine for small
classes as well).
1. Create a series of slides (e.g., PowerPoint, but there are alternatives).
Each slide has a question that is either T/F, fill-in-the-blank, or brief
multiple choice. Each slide is on an automatic t
>From the Leibovici article, I am directly cut and pasting...
"Mortality was 28.1% (475/1691) in the intervention group and 30.2% (514/1702)
in the control group (P for difference=0.4)"
Note the p = 0.4, does this make sense for a "significant" result? Or just a
typo? Or is this some statistica
Rick Adams wrote
"Does that mean that if we mention equality we have to give equal and
equally favorable time to racism and sexism? Or if we mention democracy we
have to give equal and equally favorable time to dictatorships? "
Yeah, and then all those business/economics classes that teach greedy
> At 04:57 PM 3/15/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>
>> Truhon, Stephen wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone have an idea of how to analyze data where one variable is
>>> nominal (race) and the other variable is ordinal (problems in school
>>> from
>>> none to serious)?
>>
>> Most everyone uses a 2-sample t-tes
Thank you to everyone who took the time to answer this question, both on- and
off-list.
The list response was unanimous for choice "B"! (No controversy, unlike our
"crash test" :)
Thank you for this quick and helpful information,
-Lenore Frigo
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Just a quick survey question and I'll be happy for as many back-channel answers
as I can get.
At your college/university, when a student has a disability for which they need
accommodation, is this determination made by
a) individual instructors
b) a centralized unit (such as disabled student s
" Honestly, do your students give
you such grief? "
No, but I wish they would. It would mean that they were thinking, interested,
and asking good questions. I am always surprised by the silence and passive
response when I turn back tests.
-Lenore Frigo
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Does
anyone know of a listserve that specializes in the teaching of psychology
online?
If not,
would this be something worth considering, even if at a small and informal
level? There are a lot of topics I'd like to discuss about teaching psychology
online, but in more d
Marc Carter asked
"A side question: .[snip] that people who grow up speaking ASL exclusively
tend
not to read at the usual (age, peer, etc.) level. ASL is far more
spatial than spoken (or written) language, and something about that
spatial character generates differences in the way language
st, but from a (biased) Canadian perspective, it seems like the
States are becoming more and more right winged, and the religious groups
seem to be at the helm! Are we looking at a long period of "dark" years
ahead of us? where has the enlightment gone?
Depressing...
Jean-Marc
Following links from the page referenced below I came across this page
http://home.comcast.net/%7Evanandel1/index.htm
It includes an "adopt a scientist" program to "blogg down" evolutionary
assignments by posing as a science teacher and a "creationism renaming
competitionAs in past competit
I've had two students now ask me
about news reports of "post election selection trauma" (PEST). What level of
legitimacy would you assign to this? It seems to me like a stretch to be calling
it a whole new disorder.
http://www.bocaratonnews.com/index.php?src="">
Thanks for any
thoughts
"I think that this is a behavior that MORE students should do - try to link
the notes with the book."
I agree with Deb. When you look at the sad proportion of students who
rarely/never open their books, having a student doing so in front of the whole
class can only be a positive role model.
It
This kind of reasoning would be a boon to students, "well, I MEANT to write the
correct answer therefore I should receive full credit"
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Any behaviorists out there willing to take a stab at this student question?
If strict behaviorists won't use the term reward because it implies happiness or
satisfaction, then why do they use the term punishment, which seems to me, to imply
unhappiness or dissatisfaction?
Thanks,
Lenore Frigo
My favorite is the forms that ONLY ask: What was the LAST date of attendance? Well,
savvy students can miss the majority of class meetings, but then show up on the last
day and that is misinterpreted as "good" attendance.
".and care-taking will increase" Reminds me of when a student asked
I've been facing this similar issue with low test grades.
I decided to give the students regular quizzes on the chapter readings, leading up
to the tests. These little quizzes are extra points, but definitely earned by
studying. The average test grade went up by 5 points after doing this (but
Should I respond to this?
Well, no. But I will anyway :)
Kerry's comment revealed nothing we didn't already know about Cheney's daughter and
her sexual orientation. What was quite revealing was the fact that Bush/Cheney et al.,
reacted in such a negative way to it, as if it were a shameful thing
I wasn't sure if the hurricane/voter map was meant to be taken seriously or
tongue-in-cheek. Just in case I will point out this link.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/hurricane.asp
-Lenore Frigo
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It's not clear to me whether these are ALL degrees, including graduate degrees, or
BA/BS only? That would give some insight into the data set.
-Lenore Frigo
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Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 12:17 PM
To: Teaching in the Psycholo
"How many of you take class time to go over exams after they are corrected? Whether
you do or don't, what is your rationale?
Thanks, I appreciate your responses."
After little quizzes I discuss the answer(s) immediately. These quizzes are more of a
learning tool than an assessment.
After multipl
I have
"outlines" of my PowerPoint slides available online. It does not seem to
influence attendance. I post the disclaimer that is quoted below and also
discuss the same ideas more informally with students. When a student tells me
they are going to miss class I remind them that they can use
Thank you for sharing. I will take a look.
-Lenore
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Subject: Re: General Psyc non-lecture
You might also look at a Great Books version I have d
Do any of you
TIPSTERS teach General Psychology (Intro) in a way that uses no lecture (or only
a tiny bit of lecture)? I am thinking about restructuring this course in a
radical way, but only have a hazy vision of where I might go. I have 50
students/section, so there is a good deal of flexi
Title: Re: Brain Pops?
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They have
both sweet brains and sour brains. You have to order them by the
case.
Lenore
Frigo
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I am trying to use questions from a publisher's test bank for an online general psych
course. However, I am finding that the test bank is terrible. I don't mind the poorly
worded questions, as I can choose the good ones and add some of my own to fill in the
gaps. However, the problem I am havin
Wow! I wish I had known this last spring. I adopted two Nubian goats who were very
lonely for their mama--and very noisy in their complaints! If only I'd had her
photo...?!
Lenore Frigo
Shasta College
Redding, CA
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Christopher Green wrote
http://www.snopes.com/photos/austria.asp
Lenore Frigo
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Why is Freud the only psychologist important enough to warrant an action figure? I'm
sure we don't have a choice--but is that how we would want psychology represented in
popular culture?! I at least want a plastic BF Skinner with a rat in one hand and a
Skinner box in the other.
Lenore Frigo
Some random ideas off the top of my head:
To look at how the various senses play into our sense of "taste":
Bring in several flavors of jelly beans sorted into cups. Then the students have to
decide what flavor each one is. The students are assigned to groups: normal, no vision
(close eyes), no
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