Hi Colleagues,
I have a somewhat uncomfortable situation that has developed over the past 3 class sessions. (or maybe I finally noticed it.) I have a bright male student who sits in the front (of course) and I've noticed that during my lecture he is winking at me He doesn't take notes so he
While going over the evolution of the human brain a student asked an intriguing question. In what order did we develop our senses? Or, more pointedly, in which order did the cerebral cortex evolve? Thanks for your expertise in advance.
peace,
K
Kitty K. Jung, MA
While going over the evolution of the human brain a student asked an intriguing question. In what order did we develop our senses? Or, more pointedly, in which order did the cerebral cortex evolve? Thanks for your expertise in advance.
peace,
K
Kitty K. Jung, MA
I suppose one could have a little fun with the situation. Perhaps a few
students would like to collect data on this change. Do you have Observer
software loaded onto a laptop? It is good for noting trips, overstepping,
complaints, etc. After baseline with chunk chain, do some Hawthorne
effects. Ti
Hi
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Linda M. Woolf, Ph.D. wrote:
> The reason I ask is that today when we came back from Spring break we
> discovered that someone, in their infinite wisdom, decided to chain the
> overhead projectors to the walls (picture here large galvanized chain
> link normally used for r
Title: Re: Oliver Sacks on autism
Fascinating stuff, Stephen. I'm particularly drawn to your comment that Kanner was quite possibly considering that nature rather than nurture, might be responsible for the autism:
>>he intended them to indicate that the parents were themselves
>>peculiar and a
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Jeff Ricker wrote:
> In the current issue of the NY Review of Books, there is an article by
> Oliver Sacks in which he reviews a book written [about] an autistic person. I
> have excerpted the first paragraph, but I just noticed that you can get
> the entire article at
> http
Hi Tipsters!
Time for me to call on your collective wisdom and knowledge. Do any of
you know of any good research concerning the importance or relevance of
classroom physical environment on learning, perception of teaching, etc.
The reason I ask is that today when we came back from Spring break
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Michael Sylvester wrote:
> are there circumstances where you exempt a student from taking
> the final?
> I have had one or two cases of very bright students getting A s in all
> course work and who undoubtedly will get an A in the course.
> At my discretion,I have told them that they do
Hello all,
In the current issue of the NY Review of Books, there is an article by
Oliver Sacks in which he reviews a book written by an autistic person. I
have excerpted the first paragraph, but I just noticed that you can get
the entire article at
http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWfeatdisplay.cgi?
Jeff Ricker wrote:
> ...there is an article by
> Oliver Sacks in which he reviews a book written [BY] an autistic person
I meant to say ABOUT instead of BY. The book was written by the person's
mother.
Jeff
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Dear Tipsters,
I know that there are some problems withcumulative final exams
(e.g., large amount to remember, stress, studying for the exam. does
not mean you remember aftrerwards), but I believe in them for the
following reasons:
1. It permits an assessment of the degree to which people int
At 10:48 AM -0500 3/19/01, Steven Specht wrote:
>But is it really forgotten (see "savings effect")?
Depends upon how much is 'saved' (see clinical vs. statistical significance).
>Paul Brandon wrote:
>
>> Because it promotes cramming (see spaced vs. massed practice).
>> Material tends to be learn
Some people have compared the influx of college students during
Spring Break vat Daytona,Panama City,Cancun,Jamaica etc
as some sort of mating season with all the
activities assuming some form of ritualized courting and mating
displays.
I hope I am not sounding like Desmond Morris
Michael Sylves
A comprehensive final exam is a good example of relearning with savings. If
students are given questions covering the entire semester, they must relearn
the same material they learned for the first time. I know of no evidence
that suggests that relearning material once increases long term reten
Michael Sylvester wrote:
> Btw,lots of people in Daytona Beach are puzzled by the misbehavior
> of college students during Spring Break.They remark: how can
> these folks are going to college and yet they behave so stupid
> and dumb.
> I also feel that the educated should transcend cultural imp
How about emphasizing the enormously positive effects on the economy of having a
group of young people with a great deal of disposable income stuck at school for
four years with little to do but spend money (assuming that their studies take up
little of their time)? Also, how about mentioning the
With respect to Joe Hatcher's question about why people might NOT require
final exams,
Paul Brandon wrote:
At 09:38 AM 3/19/01 -0600, Paul Brandon wrote:
>Because it promotes cramming (see spaced vs. massed practice).
>Material tends to be learned the night before and forgotten the next day.
I
But is it really forgotten (see "savings effect")?
Paul Brandon wrote:
> Because it promotes cramming (see spaced vs. massed practice).
> Material tends to be learned the night before and forgotten the next day.
>
> At 8:50 AM -0600 3/19/01, Hatcher, Joe wrote:
> >Hello all,
> > Over the y
Because it promotes cramming (see spaced vs. massed practice).
Material tends to be learned the night before and forgotten the next day.
At 8:50 AM -0600 3/19/01, Hatcher, Joe wrote:
>Hello all,
> Over the years I have learned the danger of being certain about
>anything concerning teaching,
If we trust the data that went into Hunter and Hunter's meta-analysis on job
performance (_Psych Bulletin_ 1984 "Validity and utility of alternative
predictors of job performance"), intelligence, not education per se, is the key
factor. As summarized in the Bell Curve:
Predictor
Why God never received tenure
1.He had only one major publication
2.It was in Hebrew
3.It had no references
4.It was not published in a refereed journal
5.Some even doubt that he wrote it himself
6.It may be true that he created the world,but what has he done
since then?
7.His cooperative eff
Hi Pat,
On a light note, I hope nobody in the audience shouts out that this
is merely correlational, and that the people who go to college are
presumably different in many ways from those who don't, and would probably
make more money (or whatever) whether or not they went to college...
College? Hrmmmph! What is it good for?
How about a focus on the many ways one can obtain marketable skills and
achieve success without a college educ? It has become more of a social
and symbolic ticket to certain arenas rather than the mark of an
educated citizenry. In other wo
Hello all,
Over the years I have learned the danger of being certain about
anything concerning teaching, but one of the things that I am most certain
of is that the final exam is not only the most important exam of the course,
but is one of the best and most essential learning experiences
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Patrick Cabe wrote:
> As chair of our campus Faculty Senate, it falls my lot to "say a few words" at
> commencement this spring. I've been thinking that it might be nice to talk about
> some of the correlates of obtaining a college education. I'm hoping the collective
>
are there circumstances where you exempt a student from taking the final?
I have had one or two cases of very bright students getting A s in all
course work and who undoubtedly will get an A in the course.
At my discretion,I have told them that they do not have to take the final.
They were to pe
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Patrick Cabe wrote:
> As chair of our campus Faculty Senate, it falls my lot to "say a few words" at
> commencement this spring. I've been thinking that it might be nice to talk about
> some of the correlates of obtaining a college education. I'm hoping the collective
> wisdo
As chair of our campus Faculty Senate, it falls my lot to "say a few words" at
commencement this spring. I've been thinking that it might be nice to talk about
some of the correlates of obtaining a college education. I'm hoping the collective
wisdom of TIPS subscribers can help me.
It's well k
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