Re: re Michael Kane's note on GI

2001-02-08 Thread Harry Avis
To add yet another dimension to the problem. Perhaps the Hershey Bar is getting smaller for the same price because we allow to be so. What if we are responsible for the problem by asking less of our students? Many if not most students have a goal to obtain a certain grade and will do the work

Re: re Michael Kane's note on GI

2001-02-08 Thread Drnanjo
In a message dated 2/8/2001 6:57:55 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If students keep getting worse and we have to lower our standards even to maintain the current grade averages, how do we explain the worldwide increase in IQ scores and the decrease in SAT scores? Is one

re Michael Kane's note on GI

2001-02-08 Thread sieghi
I like Michael's observations on GI but his closing comments introduce yet another dimension of GI and that is the devolving content of 'higher ed' courses. It's struck me that grading may be just as well-distributed as ever yet what the students are being graded on has become less and less

Re: visual neglect

2001-02-08 Thread Gary Peterson
Usually, "Ouch.Who said that"?? > Hi, > > Can anyone help me field this question: When patients with visual > neglect experience pain on the unattended side of the body (say, a hard > pinch on the unattended arm), how do they typically respond? > > Thanks! > > -- Dr. Mic

RE: Grade inflation

2001-02-08 Thread Annette Taylor
I guess I am using my tips bandwidth to basically just thank Rick for his comments on the GI article. I have to completely agree with Rick on his comments. As I was reading this article, and I was VERY tired, I thought to myself that there was something drastically wrong with the picture being po

visual neglect

2001-02-08 Thread Michelle Miller
Hi, Can anyone help me field this question: When patients with visual neglect experience pain on the unattended side of the body (say, a hard pinch on the unattended arm), how do they typically respond? Thanks! -- Dr. Michelle Miller Assistant Professor Department of Psychology Northern Arizon

RE: xyzbdq

2001-02-08 Thread Cheryl Schwartz
Oops! Apparently I was not compleetely lucid when I sent in my last message: >From: Maxwell Gwynn You sig file states (in a somewhat cryptic message to >TIPS; was the choice C referring to the the open fly debate?): Sorry, yes, it _was_ an answer to the open fly debate. (Which, when we we

Re: Grade inflation

2001-02-08 Thread Stephen Smith
>informal study, they found a correlation of -.09 between grades and student >>evaluations. Does anyone know of other studies? There is plenty of peer-reviewed evidence that indicates a positive correlation. For a complete list of references on this matter, see Greenwald, A.G. & Gillmore, G.M.

Re: Fwd: Grade inflation

2001-02-08 Thread Robert Herdegen
At 01:09 PM 2/7/2001 -0800, Harry Avis wrote: >There is a fascinating article by Freese, Artis, and Powell in a small book >The Social Worlds of Higher Education edited by Pescosodo and Aminzade - >Pine Forge Press (forgive me for not using APA style for this reference. >The authors point out: 1

Re: Grade inflation

2001-02-08 Thread Michael J. Kane
At 01:09 PM 2/7/01 -0800, Harry Avis wrote: >(snip) >The authors point out: 1 C is not an average grade, since students must >maintain a C average to remain is school. 2. School like Harvard take the >top 1% of students so an "average" or C grade would be A work elsewhere. >They argue that As a