I completely miss the point of your response and will not be able to respond 
again until tomorrow. 

And drat! I had ANOTHER student question to post: Is it common or rare or even 
possible that eye color changes across the life span?

I am merely suggesting that Hake makes a good point. Given that we have a 
background in the areas of the many factors that make for good educational 
practice why are we not the driving force in that are of research and 
literature?

If you examine the literature on outcomes assessment it is dominated by the 
hard sciences. Yet, there can be no denial based on my own published research 
and the literature reviews therein, that we, as a discipline of psychology are 
doing a horrible job of disabusing students of the psychobabble they come into 
our courses with. We are perfectly happy to fill students up with the facts as 
we see them, and never pay any attention as to whether or not they have taken 
the false preconceptions and replaced them with correct conceptions. We pay no 
attention to pedagogies and teaching techniques that could benefit our 
discipline in the public eye, by doing so.

And I guess for that matter maybe we should have better behaved pets and 
children........

Annette


Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
University of San Diego
5998 Alcala Park
San Diego, CA 92110
619-260-4006
tay...@sandiego.edu


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>Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:14:18 -0400
>From: "William Scott" <wsc...@wooster.edu>  
>Subject: Re: [tips] Reclaiming TIPS  
>To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <tips@acsun.frostburg.edu>
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>>>> <tay...@sandiego.edu> 10/21/09 3:04 PM >>>
>... things like student learning outcomes, how best to effect assessments, and 
>[why] are psychologists NOT at the forefront of this work?
>>>>
>
>And psychologists should have well behaved dogs and children, too!
>
>Bill Scott
>
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