[tips] MATOP Call for Programs Deadline Approaching!!!!

Seventeenth Annual Mid-Atlantic Teaching of Psychology Conference – Call for Programs The Prince George’s Community College Department of Psychology and Argosy University are sponsoring the 17th Annual Mid-Atlantic Teachers of Psychology (MATOP) conference on the teaching of psychology on Oct

Re: [tips] ANOVA and LGBT

Dear Sir or Madam: You raise an interesting question, but in order to answer it, more information is needed. (1) What is the dependent variable and what is the reason for investigating its association with gender? (2) From your description, it appears that there is a second independent variable,

RE: [tips] ANOVA and LGBT

Hi Since ANOVA handles any number of levels of a factor (2, 3, 7, 24? …), ANOVA need make no adjustment to accommodate more complex models of human sexual orientation. It is the researcher who must decide what is the appropriate number of levels and expected pattern of results, all of which is

Re: [tips] ANOVA and LGBT

There’s a reason there are specialists in sexuality, sexual identity, sexual behavior, etc. 5 sexes might (maybe) cover the variations in physiological sex. Once gender orientation is crossed with that, certainly a continuous variable, well… complexities abound. Simplistic thinking need not app

[tips] professor excuses

These are just the ones I've used this semester: I'm sorry that you will not get your papers back today, my grandchildren have been visiting, and, as so many of you have told me all semester long, family time is very important. I will start on them tonight, after my family leaves. I'm sorry abo

Re:[tips] Student excuses

I just had an email from a student who cannot take the final exam because she is in her brother's wedding party on the next day. However, she has a solid A+ in the course (which, I will grant, is highly exceptional), and feels that she knows the material and would like to be excused. She feels t

RE:[tips] Student excuses

Annette I've had a few like this- truly entitled. I suspect that it's more complex than mere poor parenting by a new generation- but I just remind them what the syllabus says, if necessary what being an adult entails including commitments etc., and then remind them that it's their choice to miss

Re: [tips] ANOVA and LGBT

And, since ANOVA is merely a constrained special case of the General Linear Model, there is not even really a practical limit on the number of values a continuous "gender" variable might assume. Chris ... Christopher D Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 ch

RE:[tips] Student excuses

Dear Tipsters, The part of Tim's answer that I liked particularly was "but I just remind them what the syllabus says.and then remind them that it's their choice to miss or not but that there are consequences to decisions." That is an important lesson for life. It is similar to respectin

Re: [tips] Student excuses

Whenever I start to think I need to be more flexible, I think of my students who are successful in spite of true adversity. Case in point, one of my students was unemployed, started the semester, her mother backed over her infant daughter in the driveway, and the daughter was subsequently in a

Re: [tips] ANOVA and LGBT

On Tue, 12 May 2015 09:48:08 -0700, Christopher Green wrote: And, since ANOVA is merely a constrained special case of the General Linear Model, there is not even really a practical limit on the number of values a continuous "gender" variable might assume. Okay, this is getting a little bit sill

Re: [tips] ANOVA and LGBT

Getting a little silly? How about started a little silly? The question was non-sequitur. That it’s earned responses is what’s silly. Paul C Bernhardt Associate Professor of Psychology Frostburg State University pcbernhardt☞frostburg.edu On May 12, 2015, at 1:53 PM, Mik

RE: [tips] Student excuses

Dear Tipsters, Raechel's point is well taken. We should have a policy for exceptions, but the granting of them must be done with care. One problem is that we often do not know about the students who quietly work away, dealing with "personal issues", and who never ask for a break. I always felt

RE: [tips] Student excuses

What works best is something like “explosive diarrhea.” Nobody ever calls you on that one, and if they start to question you just start giving the gory details of the symptoms. Cheers, [Karl L. Wuensch] From: Beth Benoit [mailto:beth.ben...@g