I stand corrected...I made a mistake...I was just flat out wrong...
Having not been able to get to sleep tonight, I did a little poking around
and the number of posts over the first 4 months of this year is the lowest
4 month period since Fall 1993, with Summer of 1994 being only slightly
above.
The following is lifted from my ever evolving Intro Psych syllabus:
PERSONAL JOURNAL and OUTSIDE RESOURCE:
The textbook, lectures, discussions, and other classroom activities
are designed to provide basic knowledge of the terminology and concepts in
the field of psychology, and the
At 02:57 AM 5/18/99 -0500, G. Marc Turner wrote in part:
I stand corrected...I made a mistake...I was just flat out wrong...
HOWEVER, the messages appear to be longer than ever before. The average
message size has gradually increased over the years. This measure was
calculated by taking the
TIPSters,
I usually assign 4 or 5 short papers, 4 pages or so each. Essentially
the task of each paper is to relate 4 concepts in a chapter to their
life. I give them the four concepts. They do this by providing one
_real life_ example of each concepts, not a made up example or one
I have assigned _Current Directions in Psychological Science_ articles in
Intro, and had students prepare 1 page summaries, critique them, and/or,
answer specific questions about them. They are often brief and "student
friendly," but, true to the name of the journal, up-to-date summaries of
RICHARD PISACRETA wrote:
Some of us are starting to list boring subjects for students. Lets stick
to
the important stuff like
out of body experiences
ESP
ghosts
reincarnation
alien abductions
psychic connections
bigfoot
Then we can recommend our students to graduate
My first social security card used to read, "In the event of your death, notify the
nearest social security office immediately."
When I was a kid, you could fill out a form at the post office indicating where you
wanted your mail forwarded to after a nuclear war. Same post office had a "No
TOP 12 THINGS NOT TO SAY TO A COP
1. I can't reach my license unless you hold my beer.
(OK in Texas)
2. Sorry, Officer, I didn't realize my radar detector wasn't
plugged in.
3. Aren't you the guy from the Village People?
4. Hey, you
Aunt Martha's Religious Experience
Got a letter from Aunt Martha the other day. She writes...
The other day I went up to a local Christian bookstore and saw a "honk if
you
love Jesus" bumper sticker. I was feeling particularly sassy that day
because I had just come from a thrilling choir
IMHO, I'd request that if we want to flood the email server with further
pleading to Bill to return to the old system, please do so off list. It is
finals/term paper time. Many of us would rather not go through all these
emails again. (Can you say "displacement behavior"?) :) Again, just a
Annette Taylor wrote:
At which point are they no longer ignorant?
at which point do I assume they should know things by looking them
up on their own if given the place to look them up?
Annette:
Oh such leading questions at this time of the semester. :) The rules are
quite clear that knowledge
At 04:50 PM 5/17/99 -0400, you wrote:
I feel the key here is the fact that they took the text verbatim and
provided the citation at the end of the block of text. While this certainly
falls well short of APA standards for proper quotations (and deserves the
appropriate deductions for failure to
On Mon, 17 May 1999, ITP_Faculty_Faith_Florer wrote:
I'm looking for a textbook for a basic Cognition course. Does anyone have
any suggestions, or know of any Web pages with suggestions?
I'd be happy to share the comments with anyone who sends email.
Thanks,
Faith Florer
Adjunct
Daytona Beach Community College now has an award titled Distinguished
Adjunct- Faculty Award.
Gee,why don't they make that individual full time?
Michael Sylvester
Daytona Beach,Florida
I'm just curious... while you can easily determine if students have used an
example from the book, how are you able to determine a "real life example"
from "a made up example?" And what difference if they use a real life
example or a made up example if either reflects understanding of the
Tim,
I follow a similar approach. I deduct points for quotations. They
'can' quote but they do not. I use the same rationale -- I'm grading
them, not the author of the quote.
Jim
Tim Shearon wrote:
Annette Taylor wrote:
At which point are they no longer ignorant?
at which point
JL Edwards wrote:
I'm just curious... while you can easily determine if students have used an
example from the book, how are you able to determine a "real life example"
from "a made up example?" And what difference if they use a real life
example or a made up example if either reflects
need some opinions on the new text by Rathus :Psychology in the new
millennium
Michael Sylvester
Daytona Beach,Florida
James S. MacDonall wrote:
I follow a similar approach. I deduct points for quotations. They
'can' quote but they do not. I use the same rationale -- I'm grading
them, not the author of the quote.
Slowly I'm learning. this semester I spent time discussing
plagiarism, doing
On Mon, 17 May 1999, ITP_Faculty_Faith_Florer wrote:
I'm looking for a textbook for a basic Cognition course. Does anyone have
any suggestions, or know of any Web pages with suggestions?
I've used Daniel Reisberg's _Cognition_, published by Norton. It's
challenging and drives home
I had the following question from a student in my General Psychology
class. Does anyone have a reference handy for this? Thanks in
advance.
"How much does the largest brain ever documented weigh? In a human?
In an animal?"
David Kreiner
Professor of Psychology
Central Missouri State
For those looking for APA format of electronic (net) media, try these 2
sites:
http://www.uvm.edu/~ncrane/estyles/apa.html
or, her collegue:
http://www.uvm.edu/~xli/references/apa.html
Each is 4 pages long and I tell my students to print them out and add them
to their APA Manuals.
Many useful suggestions have been made here recently. Here's our attempt
to handle plagiarism and several other matters. These were all areas that
were being covered in bits and pieces in several other courses
This Spring we introduced a new required course for all majors. We called
it
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I had the following question from a student in
JLEdwards, et.al.,
Found this resource while updating web sites for the advanced section of an
interactive biopsych 'text' I am writing: If interested, the link will take
you to the complete paper (updated 1998) describing the newest and best in
neuron counting. (If Rakic is using the
Miguel wrote:
Rick, Annette's student has taken an idea and correctly credited
it's source. However, by not putting the material within
quotations the reader is erroneously led to conclude that the
words are the student's own and not those of the author of the
original work identified in
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