RE: "poor test-Makers?"

2004-03-12 Thread John Kulig
bits, you won't catch even one]Russian proverb. > -Original Message- > From: Allen Esterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 3:52 PM > To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences > Subject: Re: "poor test-Makers?" > > Paul

Re: "poor test-Makers?"

2004-03-12 Thread Paul Brandon
Title: Re: "poor test-Makers?" At 3:51 PM -0500 3/12/04, Allen Esterson wrote: Paul Brandon wrote: > I'd question whether the difference in capability is necessarily _innate_. > To respond to one personal anecdote with another: > I'm an engineering dropout. I'v

Re: "poor test-Makers?"

2004-03-12 Thread Allen Esterson
Paul Brandon wrote: >> Allen Esterson wrote: > >The idea that such accomplishments have any bearing on the intellectual > >abilities required to master advanced maths or physics does not bear > >serious consideration. Let me say (with all due modesty!) that I did > >exceptionally well at school in

Re: "poor test-Makers?"

2004-03-12 Thread Paul Brandon
At 5:25 AM -0500 3/12/04, Allen Esterson wrote: You write that your point is proved by the fact that many studies have shown that girls outperform males in math and science until Jr. high. This is where we get to discuss the issue in its correct form. The position is that women are relatively less

Re: "poor test-Makers?"

2004-03-12 Thread Allen Esterson
Herb Coleman wrote, in response to my asking whether the capacity to grasp applications of the calculus, Maxwell’s electromagnetic equations, or Schrödinger’s quantum mechanics wave equation, is just a matter students’ having “been challenged in this way all their lives and have learned how to play

Re: "poor test-Makers?"

2004-03-11 Thread Herb Coleman
Subject: Re: "poor test-Makers?" From: "Allen Esterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 02:55:12 -0500 X-Message-Number: 1 On 8th March Herb Coleman wrote on the subject of poor test-takers: I'm really disappointed at the lack of scientific rigor bei

Re: "poor test-Makers?"

2004-03-10 Thread Allen Esterson
ude for grasping the concepts involved in these subjects. But if this is the case in such subjects, then surely it must be the case in the psychological sciences, especially in those parts of the course that involve, e.g., statistical analysis. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department South

RE: "poor test-Makers?"

2004-03-09 Thread Shearon, Tim
ntro to Neuropsychology; Child Development; Physiological Psychology; Psychology and Cinema -Original Message- From: Annette Taylor, Ph. D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 9:09 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences Subject: Re: "poor test-Makers?"

RE: "poor test-Makers?"

2004-03-09 Thread John Kulig
> -Original Message- > From: jim clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 4:55 PM > To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences > Subject: Re: "poor test-Makers?" > .. snip .. > > Coincidentally, I have a short article on my desk

Re: "poor test-Makers?"

2004-03-08 Thread jim clark
Hi On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Annette Taylor, Ph. D. wrote: > I measured time spent reading the text, time on embedded > quizzes, time on chapter reviews, time on online quizzes and > time on all the other pedagogical activities in my intro > psych text (e.g., critical thinking boxes, online crossword >

Re: "poor test-Makers?"

2004-03-08 Thread Annette Taylor, Ph. D.
HI Jim: I'm on another very small list, which I believe grew out of either TIPS or PsychTeacher. It sort of started out as a consequence of several independent list members on the main list being interested in textbook pedagogy evaluation. One of the things we have recently discussed (althoug

Re: "poor test-Makers?"

2004-03-08 Thread jim clark
Hi On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Herb Coleman wrote: > >Subject: Re: "poor test-takers?" > >From: David Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 11:21:26 -0800 from David I think ... > > Years ago, I administered a questionnaire on study habits to a > >large class of intro psyc studen

"poor test-Makers?"

2004-03-08 Thread Herb Coleman
Subject: Re: "poor test-takers?" From: David Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 11:21:26 -0800 Miguel Roig wrote: my bet would be that those who score low on test wiseness tend to also have poorer study skills and/or to simply not be very motivated to learn the material.