In past years of teaching large undergraduate courses, I would
occasionally include a multiple choice item asking students the name of
their textbook author(s), which I had probably mentioned no fewer than
50 times during the semester. The percentage of students getting this
item wrong usually hovered around 10-15%, if I recall correctly....Scott
Ken Steele wrote:
Carol:
I am not sure that I would worry too much about the issue of the
difficulty of remembering student names. I was at lunch with an
honor's student that I didn't know very well. To make small talk, I
asked her the names of her instructors. She couldn't name a single
instructor after having attended classes for two weeks. She even
commented on how sad was this inability given that all her instructors
knew her name.
I don't think she had a particular medical condition (other than
adolescent myopia) because I routinely encounter students who can't
name their instructors at the end of the semester.
Ken
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Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Department of Psychology http://www.psych.appstate.edu
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608
USA
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The Master in the Art of Living makes little distinction between his work and
his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and
his recreation, his love and his intellectual passions. He hardly knows which
is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does,
leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him – he is
always doing both.
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