John and Annette- This does sound like a really good idea. Particularly doing it within the list as we could coordinate this through someones' instutional research office (unless one of us wanted to volunteer as data person!) and even look at differences in area, type of school, etc. It even sounds like a project that could be of interest to efforts to maximise retention etc. Tim
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From: Annette Taylor, Ph. D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sun 3/7/2004 12:21 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences
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Subject: Re: "poor test-takers?"
I'm game: John, are you organizing this?
Annette
Quoting "John W. Nichols, M.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Great suggestion. If anyone knows of a normed questionnaire, or
> develops one, please share. Perhaps several/many Tipsters would like to
> collect the data, pool it/them, and create a "paper" we can all use
> similar to the study time survey we did a few years ago.
>
>
>
> "Christopher D. Green" wrote:
> >
> > Beth Benoit wrote:
> >
> > > I'm more inclined to believe that having failed to learn good study
> skills
> > > seems a more likely description to me than that the hapless student is
> > > saddled with some cognitive defect.
> > >
> > > Send me something. (Just kidding.)
> >
> > What a fine empirical question to be tested. It would, of course, be
> > best to test it experimentally, but perhaps we oculd get started with a
> > correlational self-report study. Have a bunch of students rate
> > themselves on how good a "test-taker" they thinking they are (perhaps
> > have them respond in deciles, relative to other college students). Then
> > give them a questionnaire about their study habits (perhaps a normed one
> > of these already exists somewhere "out there" -- anyone know of one).
> > Then see if there is a significant correlation between their
> > self-reported test-taking ability and their score on the study habits
> > test. If there is, then we might go on to some better-controlled version
> > of the study, conducted prospectivedly over the course of a real semester.
> >
> > Best,
> > --
> > Christopher D. Green
> > Department of Psychology
> > York University
> > Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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> >
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