I use these types of questions and have never had a complaint. The way I see
it, C and D could just as well say "Both of these are true" and "Neither of
these is true". I don't see the puzzle so much as having to think it through
and decide on the correct answer - just like any other question.
Hi
I guess I do not see the puzzle solving element. The relevant study
found that Love marriages start out with higher Love scores than
Arranged marriages, but due to a decline in the scores for Love
marriages and an increase in scores for Arranged marriages, Arranged
marriages had higher love sc
Not wanting to have general intelligence too big a contributor to
performance on my exams, I have replaced C and D with options such as
C. Increased worship of Lord Priapus among young wives.
D. Decreased complaints about Jim Clark.
Regretfully, these changes have not affected th
These items and other "puzzle solving" type items such as odd-item-out
almost always show the highest index of discrimination when I do an item
analysis of my tests. Of course, if the tests are meant to score
"thinkers" more highly than "knowers", then this will probably not be a
surprising result.
I never use a question with this type of structure. I also avoid options
like "A and B," "C or B but not A," and similar logic puzzles. I still
smile over an exam question I encountered as an undergraduate, where a typo
in test creation resulted an option D that read "one of the above."
What is
I would use this type of question, in fact I do whenever I can if I need to
write multiple choice questions. I get complaints that my exams are too
difficult, but never that this format is unfair. Students refer to them as
multiple uglies, but I like to make them think about why an answer should
be
Hi
I had a student recently complain vigorously that a kind of multi-choice
question I use was unfair. The type of question is illustrated below:
12. Relative to Love marriages, Arranged marriages in India have been found to
result in:
A. lower levels of love early in the marriage
B. lower lev
On Jul 26, 2012, at 4:09 PM, Joan Warmbold wrote:
> Am in total agreement with treating Division I major sport athletes as
> professionals and "paid as such," but would lead to so many dicey issues.
Such as?
How would they differ from other professional university employees?
The whole point is s
Am in total agreement with treating Division I major sport athletes as
professionals and "paid as such," but would lead to so many dicey issues.
Whatever, some type of compensation for these top-level athletes who are
drawing immense amounts of $$ for their colleges only seems reasonable and
fair.
On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 08:59:25 -0700, Christopher Green wrote:
>An interesting essay by a professor who decided to pack it in. But before you
>read it, try to guess in advance what he calls the "festering, suppurating,
>gangrenous wound in the zeitgeist of the country."
>
>http://cs.unm.edu/~terran/a
Thanks for that, Chris.
When I first started teaching I considered my job to be the best job in the
world. No longer. It's fundamentally a different world than it was then -- at
that was only 20 years ago.
m
PS And I guessed correctly about the festering zeitgeist. :)
--
Marc Carter, PhD
An interesting essay by a professor who decided to pack it in. But before you
read it, try to guess in advance what he calls the "festering, suppurating,
gangrenous wound in the zeitgeist of the country."
http://cs.unm.edu/~terran/academic_blog/?p=113
Chris
...
Christopher D Green
Departmen
It depends on what you use yor cell for.If you are expecting a critical call
from the chairman or the VP for Academic affairs
on a Friday by 4:30 pm,you should be anxious if you left your cell at home.
michael
- Original Message -
From: Zasloff, Lee
To: Teaching in the Psychologica
The next analytic step is to take into account what the athletes in each sport
major in, and compare their GPA's and graduation rates with those of
nonathletes in the same programs.
Personally, I feel that Division I major sport athletes are professionals and
should be paid as such.
If a univer
Maybe the article you linked actually compared the graduation rates of athletes
to other students at the specific schools they were looking at. I was just
citing the overall six-year graduation rate (it was specifically 52.9% for
same-school grad rate with an additional 11.3% graduating from ano
If internet addiction is going to be in the DSM, how about cell phone
addiction? I'm convinced that it's real. And not just for students. Ever
feel anxious when you've left home without your cell phone?
Lee
R. Lee Zasloff, PhD
Adjunct Instructor, Psychology
American River College
Sacrame
cocaine addiction light up in digital addicted
individuals.This could imply that internet addiction
can be correlated with sexual and food satiation feelings.Ironically,since drug
addiction,can lead to
weight loss,internet addiction could also produce this effect.Just as in the
classic Milner and
Rick, Where did you get the data you cite. According to the article I
had checked out in "The Bootleg's 2011 Graduation Analysis," as cited
below, the last chart compares the graduation rate of football players
compared to the graduation rate of all students and is between 15% and 35%
lower. Ma
Hi
My note did include another approach to increasing acceptance rates. Adopt the
shorter format that once was common in such psychology journals as the Journal
of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior or the Journal of Experimental
Psychology, and is still the dominant format in many (most? all
Not arguing one way or the other on this overall issue of exploitation of
student athletes but, for some context, the overall six year graduation rate
from colleges (the same college from matriculation to graduation) is generally
a little over 50% so the 44% to 85% shown below is actually fairly
Following up on Jim Clark's suggestion to raise acceptance rates and thus be
free to publish more failures to replicate:
It seems there are only two approaches to increasing the acceptance rate:
decreasing the denominator or increasing the numerator. As to the denominator,
decreasing interest a
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