Hi
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, David Campbell wrote:
> Jim, if you have the reference handy to the May study, I would be
> interested.
May, M. A. (1923) Predicting academic success. _Journal of
Educational Psychology, 14_, 429-440.
Best wishes
Jim
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Now just to clarify--why am I feeling defensive?--as I said this is "part" of a
much larger project! I really didn't expect to find anything new with the
reading part of it and agree that 'reading' and 'studying' are two different
things.
I think it is further confounded by 'good' students bein
Jim, if you have the reference handy to the May study, I would be
interested. Several years ago, I decided to check the validity of the
set of "study tips" I had been giving to students with the course
syllabus. At the end of the semester in a large Intro Psyc class, I
checked the correlation
I hereby publicly repent of breaking my rule of never replying to any
thread that has "Random Thought" in its subject line.
don
Louis_Schmier wrote:
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Donald McBurney wrote:
It is incredible to me that reading the book doesn't correlate with
grades [i
Hi
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Donald McBurney wrote:
> It is incredible to me that reading the book doesn't correlate with
> grades [in my classes, at least--(how is that for a disclaimer?)], and I
> am unanimous in that! (with apologies to Hyacinth Bucket, I think)
> don
> Donald McBurne
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Reading the book probably does correlate with course grades, whereas having the eyes simply process light/dark contrasts on a text page probably doesn’t. Just because students take in visual information while scanning across a
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Donald McBurney wrote:
> It is incredible to me that reading the book doesn't correlate with
> grades [in my classes, at least--(how is that for a disclaimer?)], and I
> am unanimous in that! (with apologies to Hyacinth Bucket, I think)
Why? First, reading is far from st
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> > "Lesson: The good students read the textbook. The poor
What the recent research has indicated is that students will only work as
hard as they think is necessary. If reading the textbook is superfluous to
receiving the desired grade they won't. If the students perceive the
textbook as essential to their grade they will read it. If a student grade
is sol
"Lesson: The good students read the textbook. The poor students are the
ones who use them as coasters, Louis."
Beth, you really don't believe that cliche, do you. The research doesn't
in any way bear you out.
Make it a good day.
--Louis-
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>"Lesson: The good students read the textbook. The poor students are the
>ones who use them as coasters, Louis."
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>Beth, you really don't believe that cliche, do yo
Mike, you got me on that typo. Spellcheck isn't perfect. Makes me feel
good when the computer can screw up just like me.
Make it a good day.
--Louis--
Louis Schmierwww.therandomthoughts.com
Department of Histo
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Beth Benoit
University System of New Hampshire
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Louis,
It is clear to me why your students don't read the textbooks. They (the
textbooks) are all wet!
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Michael T. Scoles, Ph.D.
Director, Arkansas Charter School Resource Center
Associate Professor of Psychology & Counseling
University of Central
I assign textbooks because I don't have the ego to suppose that students
could possibly get as much out of listening to me lecture and participating
in classroom exercises as they ultimately do from combining the classroom
information with the wonderful mountain of information they can learn in a
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Okay, I haven't bit on a RT in a while, but I can't
Okay, I haven't bit on a RT in a while, but I can't resist this one.
I assign textbooks because there is more "stuff" to learn in my courses
than I can possible "cover" (that is, speak about) in class during the
semester. I hold students accountable for stuff that I've assigned them to
read, but
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