RE: [tips] Portable, digital texbooks

Hi It is not necessary to have a fast internet connection to read e-books as books can be read off-line. The coursesmart system describes this possibility, although for some reason it is limited to certain browsers. But libraries have for some time been able to incorporate expiry dates into d

Re: [tips] Textbook Prices

Generally, it looks like the Kindle version of a book is about 80% of the hardbook cost of the book. This means that I could buy the paperback version of the book for the same or lesser price of the book. According to articles I have read, the cost of a book has little to do with residuals

RE: [tips] Portable, digital texbooks

Pirated copies are easily available on the internet of Shadish's update, too. Bill Scott >>> Michael Palij 07/29/12 8:57 PM >>> On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 18:08:04 -0700, Karl LvWuensch wrote: > One of my online students has queried me regarding why psychology >textbooks are not available in

Re: [tips] Textbook Prices

Pretty expensive. Of course students know how to find it and read it at places like this: http://www.filestube.com/f5PGP13qX71itChTWgUy4T/Experiement-and-Quasi-Experimental-Designs-for-Research.html by just Googling the title and adding "pdf" to the search >>> "Wuensch, Karl L" 07/29/12 8:30 P

RE: [tips] Portable, digital texbooks

On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 18:08:04 -0700, Karl LvWuensch wrote: > One of my online students has queried me regarding why psychology >textbooks are not available in portable, digital format (like Kindle). He >travels a lot, and lugging around hardcopies of texts or relying on unreliable >Interne

[tips] Textbook Prices

http://www.amazon.com/Experimental-Quasi-Experimental-Designs-Research-Campbell/dp/0395307872 - what a bargain, on sale for $77.31. When I was in graduate school I bought it new for $5.25. Karl L. Wuensch, Grumpy Old Professor. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To u

RE: [tips] Portable, digital texbooks

That is bound to be the bottom line, but how. Is it really easy to rip kindle books, as suggested at http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/discuss/view/1734/ ? Cheers, [Description: Karl L. Wuensch] From: David Hogberg [mailto:dhogb...@albion.edu] S

Re: [tips] Portable, digital texbooks

Bucks? On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Wuensch, Karl L wrote: > > > > > > > ** ** > > One of my online students has queried me regarding why > psychology textbooks are not available in portable, digital format (like > Kindle). He travels a lot, and lugging around hardcopies of texts

[tips] Portable, digital texbooks

One of my online students has queried me regarding why psychology textbooks are not available in portable, digital format (like Kindle). He travels a lot, and lugging around hardcopies of texts or relying on unreliable Internet service for online texts has been a pain in his posterio

Re: [tips] Math Is Hard! So, Let's Not Teach It?

That conclusion is where Hacker's argument is headed. Any subject that interferes with graduation rates should be eliminated. Ken -- --- Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. steel...@appstate.edu Professor Department of Psychol

[tips] Mayor Bloomberg/B F Skinner

Both seem to believe in the efficacy of controls.For Skinner though the major issues are whether we should be controlled by the State,others,government or ourselves or Paul Brandon.Mayor Bloomberg,however,thinks that the government could do a better job in regulating nutritional and succulent be

Re: [tips] Math Is Hard! So, Let's Not Teach It?

It is easy to get graduation rates up by gutting the curriculum. Why teach anything at all? Let's just ask "What is your name?" and "What is your favorite color?" That will make grad rates ( very nearly) 100% instantly. Of course, the Chinese and Indians and Koreans, etc. will not be dropping ma

Re: [tips] Math Is Hard! So, Let's Not Teach It?

Maybe this is a subtle attempt by Hacker to demonstrate the weakness of assertions not backed by numbers, and thus the need for effective maths education ;-) On Jul 29, 2012, at 10:23 AM, Ken Steele wrote: > This is a very strange opinion piece. Hacker blames math/algebra for much of > the dr

Re: [tips] Math Is Hard! So, Let's Not Teach It?

This is a very strange opinion piece. Hacker blames math/algebra for much of the drop-out/failure-to-graduate problems. But he offers no studies/empirical work to support this assertion. Instead we get opinions from various people. How can one do quantitative reasoning if one can't do simp

Re: [tips] Math Is Hard! So, Let's Not Teach It?

Of course, we're off shoring most of the jobs that don't require some mathematical competence. And of course, Hacker is that oxymoron: a political scientist. Part of the problem is that elementary education has long been a haven for the math challenged; it's hard to teach it if you can't do it.

Re: [tips] Math Is Hard! So, Let's Not Teach It?

Hi This was a depressing article ... happily, the highly ranked comments were quite good (and very critical). They pointed out, for example, how students often have difficulty with algebra because of poor basic math skills, how algebra helps to understand and is even required for some of the a

Re: [tips] Math Is Hard! So, Let's Not Teach It?

Hello - I think there are cognitive benefits that extend to other areas when we are trained to be competent in basic math and algebra. Having to do with: Improved problem-solving and reasoning skills, ability to organize information. Although I do believe that perhaps a segment of the populat

[tips] Math Is Hard! So, Let's Not Teach It?

Math, specifically algebra, is hard and, according to an opinion piece in the NY Times by Andrew Hacker, emeritus professor of political science at Queens College-CUNY, it should probably be scrapped or more contextualized (in contrast to the de-contextualized math that may be taught in K-12 and co