[tips] Tension between enabling understanding and good grades with requirement for class

2007-04-29 Thread Pollak, Edward
Three things: 1) I agree with you Annette about requiring the learning of more names of investigators in upper level class. My comment was for intro psych only. 2) Your findings on 2 vs,. 3 distracters is counterintuitive and conflicts with my experience. Did you delete the 4th distracter at ra

[tips] Tension between enabling understanding and good grades with requirement for class averages

2007-04-27 Thread Mike
I would like to hear some comments on how we are supposed to both foster understanding and enable good grades for students while, at the same time, supposedly coming up with a specific class average (lets say 68% (or higher for more senior courses)). For example. Frequent testing with concentrati

[tips] Tension between enabling understanding and good grades with requirement for class averages

2007-04-28 Thread Pollak, Edward
[EMAIL PROTECTED] asked ".My students also frequently ask for "study guides" for exams, so they know what to concentrate on." That's one of my pet peeves. The students are not really asking about the topics on which they should concentrate. Rather, they are asking, "which pa