Here is an interesting NT Times news story on a clinical drug trial gone
bad. I plan to discuss it in my stats class.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/business/seroquel-xr-drug-trial-frayed-promise.html?_r=1
On aspect of the article highlights how desperate recruitment becomes
for the drug c
Annette raises an interesting question. I wonder if some students are
persuaded by the rather irrational but commonly used logic that the value
we ascribe to a college (or event or person) is determined by how
difficult it was to obtain. That is, it might be that the obscene tuition
charged by th
Dear Tipsters,
We tried a break then stopped. I think students who were away from home for the
first time liked it, but ut pushed back the dates in December which most people
did not like. So it back to the usual Thanksgiving weekend (Canadian, of
course).
Also, if you are in a winter location
Oh. I was satisfied with “Everyone likes a break now and then, and we already
have one in the winter semester, so why not have one in the fall semester as
well.”
Call me “unscientific.” :-)
Chris
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Christopher D Green
Department of Psychology
York University
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Canada
chri.
Hi
Good question. Various rationales have been given for fall break.
1. Retention, especially perhaps for first year students struggling with
university. So retention stats, performance on mid-terms, failures or
withdrawals from courses, …
2. If any such benefits, statistics on po
We have a fall reading week (though it is called "co-curricular days" for
reasons no one has yet been able to discern, and is often a day or two short of
a full week). What kind of empirical work do you want? What's the DV?
Chris
...
Christopher D Green
Department of Psychology
York Univers
Hi
I'm curious whether people have any experience with fall reading week, which is
becoming more common in Canadian universities with the shift to half courses. I
haven't been able to find any empirical work on it, admittedly with just a
pretty quick search.
Take care
Jim
Jim Clark
Professor
Hi
Perhaps a good example for correlation does not imply causation? Here's an
alternative model
Government funding cutback --> Tuition needs to be raised --> multiple negative
consequences (student as consumer, practical course selection, ...)
Take care
Jim
Jim Clark
Professor & Chair of Psy
This, "If I could go back in time I would stop colleges and universities from
ever promoting better jobs and higher wages as an outcome (no matter how true
it is and was) it was the beginning of the commodification of education.”
As soon as that became the advertised draw for college education,
I assumed he was attracted by the artificially high placement rates created buy
paying temp agencies to employ recent graduates. While I was shocked by this
practice but it goes to show that institutions will find ways to achieve by
whatever metric is used to measure success and many times what
It’s a question of whether an institution spends its money on education or on
marketing.
We’ve got billboards and media ads for the local for profit ‘college’ all over
the place; the local community college is much less visible.
On Apr 28, 2015, at 9:19 AM, Annette Taylor wrote:
> Interesting
Interesting part of the article: interview with a student 3 classes away from
graduation. Lives in the OC, socal. Educational goal: associate's degree in
criminal justice.
What kind of associate's degree is he buying for the high tuition rates that he
cannot get a community college? A quick per
Key word is "apparently." Somehow I think there's a lot more to this story.
Make it a good day
-Louis-
Louis Schmier
http://www.therandomthoughts.edublogs.org
203 E. Brookwood Pl http://www.therandomthoughts.com
Valdosta, Ga 316
Apparently he had enough of what looks like entitled behavior. Chair will take
over the class, apparently.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-university-prof-fails-entire-course-n349431
Paul
Paul C Bernhardt
Associate Professor of Psychology
Frostburg State University
pcbernhardt☞frostbu
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