[tips] Little Albert's Identity

2014-07-30 Thread Michael Britt
For anyone who would like to get the highlights of the recently published article in audio format: http://www.thepsychfiles.com/2014/07/ep-223-little-alberts-real-identity-time-to-rewrite-the-textbooks/ Michael Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. mich...@thepsychfiles.com http://www.ThePsychFiles.com Twitt

[tips] Kudos to the Journal of Educational Psychology

2014-07-30 Thread Michael Britt
...for publishing a study that found no significant effects. This one was on the old topic of learning styles. Yet another confirmation that there's nothing to it. Something new: apparently "learning styles" is also referred to as the "meshing hypothesis". "Taken together, the results of our

[tips] Holy Crap! The New Phonebook Is Here And Somebody Is Not Going To Be Happy!

2014-07-30 Thread Mike Palij
And by "phonebook" I mean the latest college rankings but these as all new and put out by "Money" magazine in contrast to U.S. News and World Report. Money uses a different set of criteria than USNWR and the two rankings don't really agree (though no correlation coefficient is given). If you real

Re: [tips] Holy Crap! The New Phonebook Is Here And Somebody Is Not Going To Be Happy!

2014-07-30 Thread Claudia Stanny
The magazine publishers revise their criteria and ranking systems each year mainly to shake up the order a bit. Does any one imagine these changes are motivated because the editors discovered some new and useful metric that had been previously overlooked or weighted incorrectly? Why buy the latest

Re: [tips] Holy Crap! The New Phonebook Is Here And Somebody Is Not Going To Be Happy!

2014-07-30 Thread Ken Steele
Memo to Time.com: You want people to look at your site. Your site is so bloated by advertisements that it can't be navigated. BTW, schools committed to business programs and engineering programs dominate your top schools. It would seem that 5 year salary is your favorite metric. On 7/

RE: [tips] Holy Crap! The New Phonebook Is Here And Somebody Is Not Going To Be Happy!

2014-07-30 Thread William Scott
I see that 5% of the "quality of education" is based on RateMyProfessor scores. From: Ken Steele Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 6:14 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Holy Crap! The New Phonebook Is Here And Somebody

Re: [tips] Holy Crap! The New Phonebook Is Here And Somebody Is Not Going To Be Happy!

2014-07-30 Thread Christopher Green
Note, this list is "best for the money," not "best." Chris - Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M6C 1G4 Canada chri...@yorku.ca > On Jul 30, 2014, at 5:44 PM, Claudia Stanny wrote: > > > > > > > > The magazine publishers revise their criteria

Re: [tips] Holy Crap! The New Phonebook Is Here And Somebody Is Not Going To Be Happy!

2014-07-30 Thread Mike Palij
On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 15:20:46 -0700, Ken Steele wrote: Memo to Time.com: You want people to look at your site. Your site is so bloated by advertisements that it can't be navigated. I must be lucky. I did not have a deluge of adverts. BTW, schools committed to business programs and engineeri

Re: [tips] Holy Crap! The New Phonebook Is Here And Somebody Is Not Going To Be Happy!

2014-07-30 Thread Ken Steele
On 7/30/2014 7:30 PM, William Scott wrote: I see that 5% of the "quality of education" is based on RateMyProfessor scores. That is very funny. RateMyProfessor doesn't distinguish among a 1st time graduate student, a person who has been teaching the course for 20 years, and an adjunct who ha

Re: [tips] Holy Crap! The New Phonebook Is Here And Somebody Is Not Going To Be Happy!

2014-07-30 Thread Ken Steele
On 7/30/2014 8:01 PM, Mike Palij wrote: BTW, schools committed to business programs and engineering programs dominate your top schools. It would seem that 5 year salary is your favorite metric. |"The list has nothing to do with gratification, survey data or |what people think," said Mr. Sc