Re: [tips] Coke bottle cheating

Must be a real sight when a student shuffled through his/her Necco wafers to find the one with the crtical fact scrawled on it . . . and woe to the hapless student who developed overly-sweaty hands from test anxiety! (Remembering those Valentine message hearts with the runny print!) Can't say this

Re: [tips] Coke bottle cheating

They still exist! See pic here: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dnmPzxbBNyU/SIwCHyfKnAI/Bc4/-5pZujApw-A/s320/neccowafers.jpg. Mmm, that chalky flavorless sweetness. :-) Chris Green York U. Toronto William Scott wrote: > I usually allow one note card per chapter of text th

RE: [tips] Coke bottle cheating

I usually allow one note card per chapter of text that is being covered. It makes no difference in relative student performance and the students like the idea. By the way, the coke bottle cheating is hardly new. My (now 90 year old) mother taught me her favorite way of cheating in college. She c

RE: [tips] Obsessions vs. delusions

Dstinction here is usually clear-cut, but not always. Classically, delusions are fixed false beliefs (also not shared by members of one's culture or subculture according to the DSM, although some - myself included - disagree) and are "ego-syntonic" - consistent with the self-concept and not rec

RE: [tips] Coke bottle cheating

Very funny, NO! I let students put all the stuff that will cue their memories for things they can't possibly memorize if they are going to fully understand material. I know for some students it doesn't work that way but for many it does. I think the reason that the studies I've seen where these

Re: [tips] Obsessions vs. delusions

Hi Rob- An obsession is where you feel that you have to do something (e.g. repeated hand washing in OCD). A delusion is where you have a belief that is untrue (e.g. I am Napolean Bonepart). There can be some overlap. For example, you might have the delusion that everything you touch is covered

[tips] Obsessions vs. delusions

TIPSfolk, A student asked the difference between an obsession a la OCD and a delusion. I couldn't come up with a coherent distinction when I was further questioned. Can someone give me a concrete distinction? Thanks, Rob Rob Weisskirch, MSW. Ph.D. Professor 90.77% Furlough 9.23% Associate Prof

Re: [tips] Why Powerpoint Is Evil: Military Version

Apple is always so far of the curve. I just googled "keynote," which took me to a free tutorial on keynote. Paul, why do you love it so much? Joan jwarm...@oakton.edu > I hate Powerpoint, but I love Keynote. > > It isn't the tool, it is the way it is used. > > The main problems with presentatio

Re: [tips] Why Power point Is Evil: Military Version

I've seen another great power point of the Gettysburg address that's even better at poking fun of PP's. If any one has some alternative version, I would really appreciate it, though this one is good also. I'm with Marc and Paul--hating power points that is. And I have made some very good power po

RE: [tips] Coke bottle cheating

Annette, Is this review card the same one that previously was used with a popsicle stick on it? Your version of the inexpensive "clicker" Have a good week! Jim Jim Matiya Florida Gulf Coast University jmat...@fgcu.edu Contributor, for Karen Huffman's Psychology in Action, Video Guest Le

RE: [tips] Coke bottle cheating

And this is why I always allow students to bring in an index card. I make sure to call it a notes card and not a cheat sheet, not ever. The research shows it doesn't really help but no more cheating. Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Professor, Psychological Sciences University of San Die

RE: [tips] Coke bottle cheating

Right - that's what concerned us. The IT folks couldn't locate any stored in info it, but perhaps it was deleted by the student? Scott -Original Message- From: Brown, Barbara [mailto:bro...@grinnell.edu] Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 5:08 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Scien

RE: [tips] Coke bottle cheating

The clicker could have been used to store answers for later transmission to someone else. Barbara Brown Psychology Department Technical Assistant 1116 8th Ave Grinnell College Grinnell, IA 50112 Phone: 641-269-3171 FAX: 641-269-4285 Email: bro...@grinnell.edu -Original Message- From: L

RE: [tips] Coke bottle cheating

BTW, has anyone had a case (or heard of) a student cheating using a clicker (or whatever the formal name of that thingie is...)? I don't use them in my classes, but last semester we found a student with one of them on his desk during the exam (and an alert student in the class pointed out that

RE: [tips] Coke bottle cheating

Dear Tipsters, This goes one step beyond this one I was told about: put information in the inside part (white) of the label and then read it through the bottle. I can also add that I have been informed the baseball caps with long peaks are an ideal place that you can look up to during exams. S

Re: [tips] Coke bottle cheating

As usual, don't you marvel that someone could spend as much time - maybe more - with this intricate system of cheating as it might take to just * learn* the material? Beth Benoit Granite State College Plymouth State University New Hampshire On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Sally Walters wrote:

Re: [tips] Why Powerpoint Is Evil: Military Version

I'm doing a PD presentation with 7 colleages using pecha kucha - 20 PP slides, 20 seconds per slide, no bullet points. Images and talk are everything. That's the parlour game version. For more info: http://www.pecha-kucha.org/ Sally Walters Capilano University, North Vancouver, BC - Origin

[tips] Coke bottle cheating

A colleague sent me this - beware! http://gizmodo.com/5524592/the-coke-bottle-cheat-sheet Sally Walters Capilano University North Vancouver, BC --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff3

[tips] Seventeen Statements by Gold-Standard Skeptics #2

Some subscribers to TIPS and AERA-TEP-SIG128 might be interested in a post "Seventeen Statements by Gold-Standard Skeptics #2" [Hake (2010)]. The abstract reads: *** ABSTRACT: Andy Rudd in an EdResMeth post 6 Apr 2010 titled "Cause and Effect" wrote: "Toda

[tips] Clinical-counseling psych position

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[tips] Prezi presentation software

I've played with Prezi a little bit. If you're a fan of "mind maps," this is the tool for you. The learning curve wasn't bad for me. It's the motion sickness that I found to be a problem. It's not bad on a small screen, but on the big screen... whew. If you'd like to see it in action, here's

RE: [tips] Why Powerpoint Is Evil: Military Version

Hi I think it is possible to enhance powerpoint using some of its available tools. I have, for example, often used text boxes and lines to essentially create cognitive maps to outline course material. Somewhat limited compared to cognitive mapping programs but allows one to represent the over

RE: [tips] Why Powerpoint Is Evil: Military Version

Michael and Rick I have also been very impressed by several presentations recently which used Prezi. One was a faculty member and two others were by people applying for an assistant librarian position. Then I saw two students do presentations with it in a class recently and was very impressed. T

RE: [tips] question on speech perception

A Google search for speech spectrogram will yield some images and programs that will allow you to look into this more. I have shown real time speech spectrograms in class to *show* the difference between speakers' voices and to illustrate how difficult the task of parsing the speech stream is. Th

RE: [tips] Opinion about a stats text

Hi My wording is probably poor ... I supplement with pre-binomial probability material (e.g., some counting rules) to link multiplication and addition rules to binomial so that students understand the elements of the binomial theorem when we do that part of Pagano. It has been a few years sinc

Re: [tips] Why Powerpoint Is Evil: Military Version

Good point Rick. I really want to love Prezi in part because it is a welcome alternative to PowerPoint, but there is a bit of a learning curve to it and, as you say, you can't get - yet - any easily printed notes or slides from it. Still, worth checking into if you want to try something d

RE: [tips] question on speech perception

On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 06:28:53 -0700, Annette Taylor wrote: >Would this shaping of the vocal tract explain why some people >have such distinct accents when they learn a second language >whereas some people don't? I always just "assumed" it had >something to do with how well some people can hear--s

RE: [tips] Opinion about a stats text

I am a little puzzled (and maybe I just read it wrong) but I think that Pagano is fairly unique in that he actually formats his book as Jim suggests, starting with the binomial distribution (and the sign test) as the first inferential test so that students can understand the concept with an easi

Re: [tips] Opinion about a stats text

Hi We've used various versions of Pagano here for our one semester (12 weeks) intro stats course and it works well. My impression is that there is not a lot of variation across such books. As for whether it is too "light" depends on what you want to cover and in what depth. We do not cover a

Re: [tips] Opinion about a stats text

We have adopted it as our text for our statistics course. I taught out of it about a decade back or so and liked it pretty well. We will discover in the fall how it works with our students. Paul Bernhardt Dept of Psychology Frostburg State University pcbernhardt _at_ frostburg _dot_ edu On A

Re: [tips] Why Powerpoint Is Evil: Military Version

I hate Powerpoint, but I love Keynote. It isn't the tool, it is the way it is used. The main problems with presentation software is, as is noted in the article about the military's use of it, that it gives an appearance of understanding and organization when it may not actually be the case, it

RE: [tips] question on speech perception

I remember listening to isolated formants in grad school, and they don't sound like speech at all -- more like chirps or whistles (especially formant transitions). So I don't think they're perceived as different in loudness. But yes, that energy concentration means that (relatively) there's gr

[tips] Opinion about a stats text

Hi all. I was wondering if anyone has had experience with R. R. Pagano's Understanding Statistics in the Bheavioral Sciences, and what their opinion is about the text. I checked the Table of Contents, and I'm not sure if it's a bit "light" or not for an introduction to statistics course in a psyc

RE: [tips] question on speech perception

So, if I think of it this way, Mike and Marc (or anyone for that matter), are the bands of concentrated energy related to intensity? And then perceptually to loudness but too brief to hear individual vibrations? I think I'd like to take a course--or at least buy the book. :) Carol Carol L. De

RE: [tips] Why Powerpoint Is Evil: Military Version

Can resist... http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/sld001.htm I hate powerpoint. -- Marc Carter, PhD Associate Professor and Chair Department of Psychology College of Arts & Sciences Baker University -- > -Original Message- > From: Michael Smith [mailto:tipsl...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, Ap

Re: [tips] Why Powerpoint Is Evil: Military Version

That's weird...ya think the military would like PP since it is often "bullet" points! But anyway, I agree with what the others have said more or less in defense of PP. I also think that most instructors (hopefully, at least), don't use PP in the classroom exclusively, but rather also use all the

RE: [tips] question on speech perception

Another way to think of formants is as energy concentrated at certain frequencies -- that's how I think of them. As Mike says, the resonant properties of the shaped vocal tract concentrate energy at certain frequencies more than others; in a spectrogram you see them as darker bands of energy.

RE: [tips] question on speech perception

Would this shaping of the vocal tract explain why some people have such distinct accents when they learn a second language whereas some people don't? I always just "assumed" it had something to do with how well some people can hear--some being better able to hear the fine nuances between sounds.

Re: [tips] Why Powerpoint Is Evil: Military Version

That kind of slide, however can benefit from a presentation system such as Prezi. (www.prezi.com). Prezi can be great to organize information for a presentation while avoiding the 'slide by slide' death by bullet points. It can better show comprehensive and complex relationships, but allow delvi

Re: [tips] Why Powerpoint Is Evil: Military Version

I just saw the slide on my iPhone and can confirm that it is just as incomprehensible in that format. Maybe the problem is compressing so much information into a single graphic. If the point was to communicate the complex quagmire that is Afghanistan, the graphic is very effective. As a tool of

Re: [tips] Why Powerpoint Is Evil: Military Version

But the "slide" that's shown in the story is a "mind map" diagram - it doesn't really have anything to do with PowerPoint except maybe the person who shows it could use PowerPoint to display it. I did agree with the point made in the later part of the story that sitting through a PowerPoint presen

[tips] Why Powerpoint Is Evil: Military Version

I'm not a fan of powerpoint and prefer to see actual text that especially when explain complex, interrelated concepts. The military has come to the same conclusion as reported in this article by the NY Times with the now infamous "spaghetti" slide of U.S. military strategy in Afghanistan; see: h