Tipsters,
Hypothetically, if faculty members developed an unmonitored website
and allowed instructors to anonymously evaluate students (suspected
of cheating on exams, buying term papers, or having an aunt that dies several
times a semester) - would it pass as an "instructor's resource"?
No!!
Here the student evaluations are gathered together and put on reserve in
the library for any student or stranger to read.
At 01:51 AM 9/3/1999 -0400, you wrote:
If _all_ your student evaluations were gathered together (not just the
negative or positive ones) and were available to new
"Paul C. Smith" wrote:
All of that nit-picking being done, I have one less nit-picky comment. As
Mike Scoles notes, one of the evaluations did refer to a faculty member as
"a raging homosexual". Suppose s/he is not gay.
I am somewhat disturbed by the above comment. It should make
Linda M. Woolf wrote:
"Paul C. Smith" wrote:
All of that nit-picking being done, I have one less
nit-picky comment. As Mike Scoles notes, one of the evaluations did
refer to a
faculty member as "a raging homosexual". Suppose s/he is not gay.
I am somewhat disturbed by the above
Dear Tipsters,
Don McBurney wrote:
Yes, I think we did discuss deja vu a while ago. One way to demonstrate deja
vu is to read a list of words all having to do with a topic, such as sleep:
tired, bed, rest... but leave out sleep. Later students will recall having
heard sleep. I forget the
I have a case book for the abnormal psych class I'm teaching. In it,
the famous case of Anna O. is described as a multiple personality
disorder. I've seen her described as "hysterical" and as a conversion
disorder, but never MPD. Any thoughts?
Colleagues
We want to conduct research in South Africa on the nature of ethical and
professional complaints against psychologists. I would therefore appreciate any
info and especially references to publications in this regard.
Thanks
Dap
On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Erica Klein went:
Here the student evaluations are gathered together and put on reserve in
the library for any student or stranger to read.
When I was an undergraduate at Wesleyan in the mid-'80s, the "real"
evaluations were kept private, so students contributed a
It is interesting how we often lack systematic descriptive studies of the phenomena
we so readily fit to our research (retro-fitting is usually found in intro and
discussion sections). Deja Vu experiences are not uncommon, but have there been
good descriptive studies done to articulate the
At 4:25 PM -0400 9/2/99, Rick Adams wrote:
A good
teacher should have no fear of being publicly evaluated--and a poor
teacher _should_ have his/her lack of skill exposed to other students.
Isn't this the same argument that's used aginst the 5th amendment?
* PAUL K. BRANDON [EMAIL
Folks,
Our adjunct who teaches Theories of Psychotherapy -- a high 400-level course
-- is more than a little unhappy with his text. Good man, he's thinking
about
a Spring course the second week of the Fall semester!
All you good clinical-teaching types, listen up.
What's a good text for an
The following quotation just arrived in the signature line of a message from
a colleague. Seemingly apropos to this discussion of late, I thought I would
share. . .
"Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've
forgotten this before." - Steven Wright
Perhaps also
I have read Anna O a few times, and I do not remember her described as a MPD.
She did change quickly from a caring, sensitive person to someone who would
verbally abuse others. She was also decribed as having "absences" by Breuer,
but these were states more akin to hypnotic trances. I do not
Paul wrote:
At 4:25 PM -0400 9/2/99, Rick Adams wrote:
A good
teacher should have no fear of being publicly evaluated--and a poor
teacher _should_ have his/her lack of skill exposed to other students.
Isn't this the same argument that's used aginst the 5th amendment?
No, actually
At 12:46 PM -0400 9/3/99, Rick Adams wrote:
Paul wrote:
At 4:25 PM -0400 9/2/99, Rick Adams wrote:
A good
teacher should have no fear of being publicly evaluated--and a poor
teacher _should_ have his/her lack of skill exposed to other students.
Isn't this the same argument that's used
"Linda M. Woolf" wrote:
"Paul C. Smith" wrote:
All of that nit-picking being done, I have one less nit-picky comment. As
Mike Scoles notes, one of the evaluations did refer to a faculty member as
"a raging homosexual". Suppose s/he is not gay.
I am somewhat disturbed by the
Paul wrote:
If the site routinely "publishes" such statements with no
fact-checking (and of course there won't be any), I'd imagine
there could be some kind of legal trouble. Is it akin to a
newspaper printing a slanderous article from a correspondent?
I think one might be able to
This is why my alma mater [Reed College] stopped sending data to US News
and World Report, and other similar surveys, several years ago. Despite
prophecies of doom, the college is actually recruiting *better* students
now than it was before it withdrew from the contests [where it had
Diana wrote:
Hypothetically, if faculty members developed an unmonitored website
and allowed instructors to anonymously evaluate students (suspected of
cheating on exams, buying term papers, or having an aunt that dies several
times a semester) - would it pass as an "instructor's
Rick Adams
Paul wrote:
If the site routinely "publishes" such statements with no
fact-checking (and of course there won't be any), I'd imagine
there could be some kind of legal trouble. Is it akin to a
newspaper printing a slanderous article from a correspondent?
I think one might
Paul wrote:
The fifth amendment protects one agains SELF-incrimination, not
accusations by others. The only way it would be applicable
here would be
if it were the instructor him/her-self who was required to anonymously
post negative evaluations of his/her own performance.
The
Just a note to say that I really appreciate the interactions I have with
all of you. This list has been more helpful to my teaching than any
other resource. Just this morning, for example, I was able to use the
results of the recent thread on supernaturalism and science to have a
very productive
Howdy again,
Rick Adams wrote:
Thus, the person who is
defamed, who is falsely accused of acts or behaviors s/he did not commit,
or who is publicly ridiculed (in a case where the ridicule cannot be
supported as legitimate use of satire) has legal grounds for action
against the site.
Of
Okay, a few more details about collegestudent.com:
First, the course evaluation feature is one of several different features
of the website, not its primary focus. So, to call for the removal of the
entire site seems a tad extreme (though I'm not sure if anyone actually
called for this... I've
Howdy Y'all!
"Paul C. Smith" wrote:
Yet, the phrasing of "a raging homosexual" implies inappropriateness.
I wasn't certain of that, as I know a gay man who comfortably describes
himself as "flaming" (is that the same as "raging"? I have no idea). I
didn't want to speak for gay
At 02:06 PM 9/3/1999 -0500:
Of course, how much damage is done before one discovers the site and the
defaming
comments? For example, does the individual who has been described as a
"raging
homosexual" and who has been the source of a list discussion for the
better part of
a day even know that
Interesting news piece. Just think what they would do with Anna O? Or
is that already being done? re: the mpd hindsight analyses? Was deja vu
ever a "sign" of mpd? Ws dja vu evr a "sin" of mpd? Have a fun weekend,
Gary Peterson
G. Peterson, Gerald Peterson, Gary Peterson
Gerry and Pete
Tipsters
SCRIVEN ON STUDENT RATINGS/PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
Exerpted From:
Michael Scriven (1993). The Validity of Student Ratings. In Teacher Evaluation,
Evaluation Development Group, AERA.
--
The kind of student rating we are talking
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Pollak, Edward wrote:
Jeff Ricker asked:
".I had a student ask for information about any possible
association between brain dysfunctions and criminal violence. Does
anyone know of any good articles on this that might be understandable to
an undergraduate (and
Hi Y'all,
"G. Marc Turner" wrote:
And if it an article appears about the professor in a student publication,
does the person know right away?
Perhaps not. But the student and the publication can be held accountable for
the comments. Usually, there is also a review process so that racist,
Linda wrote:
Unfortunately, in such an anonymous setting - anyone can log in
falsely to the site - there is no mechanism for accountability.
On the contrary--ANY web site has a built in mechanism for tracking the
identity of a poster; they simply record the ip address of all
Marc wrote:
Based on this and some other language in the user agreement, it appears
that if a complaint of slander/libel was brought against the site, they
would pass the blame on to the original poster of the evaluation.
Although
an argument could be made that they are responsible for
Linda wrote:
Of course, how much damage is done before one discovers the
site and the defaming
comments? For example, does the individual who has been
described as a "raging
homosexual" and who has been the source of a list discussion
for the better part of
a day even know that the
Rick Adams wrote:
Linda wrote:
does the individual who has been
described as a "raging
homosexual" and who has been the source of a list discussion
for the better part of
a day even know that the comment is on the global network?
Based on that argument it isn't
Tipsters, FYI Course Evaluations
Excerpted From:
The New Crisis in Teacher Evaluation: The Improper Use of 'Research-based'
Indicators. Professional Personnel Evaluation News. (January).Scriven,
Michael. (1988).
In many districts and states, the first crisis in teacher evaluation came
about
Rick Adams wrote:
ANY web site has a built in mechanism for tracking the
identity of a poster; they simply record the ip address of all connections
in their system log. If a law suit or criminal action occurs, those
records are easily made available to the appropriate authorities and
Mike wrote:
I can walk into almost any public library, give no ID, set up
an anonymous e-mail account, and send whatever I want over the
Internet. I doubt that any library has been held responsible
for such use.
Not yet--but at least two services providing anonymous email accounts
Mike wrote:
Quite a stretch. A person looking for "advice" on course
selections at the unnamed university would see the instructor's
name and the comment at the web site. I mentioned the comment,
but not the university, and not the instructor's name on this
list. The identity of the
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