I have a confession to make. I have stooped so low in my efforts to combat
inadequate proofreading of papers that this semester I waved a gold dollar
coin in front of my Intro Psych students and told them that anyone who turns
in a mechanically perfect paper - no errors that would be caught by a
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:47:40 -0500 (EST) Stephen Black
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2) How high are the frequencies that other mammalian species can
detect?
I had not replied to this message because I assumed that a slew of
colleagues would quickly reply. But it seems that even
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 08:35:10 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) Ken Steele
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BTW, it seems to have a misprint as well, because it says that
these are under ideal conditions, and than "actually, few human
adults can ordinarily hear tones much above 8,000 cycles". I'm
Nancy,
I can imagine the frustration you feel with such
trivial B.SAND I hate to think of the head
games being played. My suggestion is to talk
to the psych department again and ask if it's their
policy to give keys only to permanent
full-timers. I would offer to fill out the
I'm putting TIPS to the test this morning. In 30 minutes I'll
be talking to my Research Methods class about the logic of
testing theories, and one point I want to make is that neither
of the two logically valid modes of syllogistic reasoning
(modus ponens and modus tollens) permits confirmation
It was my understanding that the reviewer does not have to be someone from
your own department. In my situation I'm the only one in the department who
teaches most of my courses. I would look for someone who would be able to
provide me with an objective evaluation. I could easily ask a friend
I wrote, about a passage in Stevens' book _Sound and Hearing_
BTW, it seems to have a misprint as well, because it says that
these are under ideal conditions, and than "actually, few human
adults can ordinarily hear tones much above 8,000 cycles". I'm
sure they meant 18,000.
Tim:
In a nutshell:
According to Ray (2000), modus ponens involves confirmatory reasoning:
If p, then q.
P.
Therefore, q.
If I read it on TIPS, it must be right.
I read it on TIPS.
Therefore, it must be right.
Modus Tollens involves disconfirmatory reasoning:
If p, then q.
Not q.
Maxwell Gwynn wrote:
Modus Tollens involves disconfirmatory reasoning:
If p, then q.
Not q.
Therefore, not p.
If I read it on TIPS, it must be right.
It is not right.
Therefore, I did not read it on TIPS.
Or, in a form that may be more familiar to us:
If p, then not q
q
Max,
Thanks for the info. After class I found an online Britannica
article which explains the Latin derivation. Modus ponens
literally means "method of affirming" and modus tollens means
"method of denying."
Tim
Tim:
In a nutshell:
According to Ray (2000), modus ponens involves confirmatory
Tim-
Regarding the etymology of modus ponens and modus tollens:
Modus is the Latin ancestor of English mode and mood.
In logic, a mood is a way of constructing a valid syllogism. Ponens
means affirming, from ponere, to affirm, to
take a stand. Tollens means denying, from tollere, to
deny. In the
"Gary Klatsky" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not sure that the portfolios are meant to be a means of comparing your
class to another. I also don't believe that student evaluations provide
information about the quality of your courses. Unless you include a
measure
of student outcomes, you
I'm not sure those two purposes are necessarily independent. When we write
up our annual summaries the teaching evaluations are only a part of what is
presented for teaching effectiveness. Program development, teaching
innovations, evaluations by colleague, as well as advisement are also
A student looking towards research in mind/body/spirit asked which
universities would be best for her to apply to in terms of who(m) is doing
the most work in this area. I suggested doing a focused web search in the
meantime while I asked around. Any ideas?
peace,
K
Kitty K. Jung, M.A.
In my opinion, student evaluations are almost useless (I get good ones).
Freshman have no basis to grade college profs.
The #1 variable that determines course evaluation is expected grade in the course. Profs who show lots of movies, drop the lowest test, let attendance count for 25% of the
Today I had my students anonymously evaluate me,
the course, text, etc. based on three weeks of classroom time. I feel its
important to get feedback from students early and then later in the semester so
that modifications can be made if necessary (obviously I'm quite flexible when
it comes
While not disputing the phenomena cited by Ken, I'm still
surprised that "ordinarily" the cut-off is as low as 8,000 Hz. Of
course, it all depends on what is meant by "ordinarily". I'd
suggest an operational definition would be a test while watching
TV at normal volume. Would a subject
How does one reply a to "K. Jung" asking about psychology programs in
"mind/ body/ spirit"? This curmudgeon says: talk to Maharishi U. or
maybe Bob Jones U., but forget about psychology. (ducking and
covering).
I must confess I shared Tom Allaway's reaction. I would hope the
student can differentiate psychological science from these other "shadows"
that characterize--some would say plague, psychological practice. On the
other hand, there are serious ways to study whatever these terms are
referring
It's my understanding that the serious scientific research in this area
focuses on psychoimmunology and is conducted at the graduate
level--usually med schools. I think Harvard med has a Mind/Body
Clinic. At the undergrad level, there are sometimes research assistantships
for BAs at teaching
Hi
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Richard Pisacreta wrote:
In my opinion, student evaluations are almost useless (I get good ones).
Freshman have no basis to grade college profs.
The #1 variable that determines course evaluation is expected grade in
the course. Profs who show lots of movies, drop
Hi
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Miriam Resendez wrote:
Today I had my students anonymously evaluate me, the course,
text, etc. based on three weeks of classroom time. I feel
...
always helpful. I just got through looking over the
evaluations and 2 students out of 45 said that they thought
the
Hi
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Gary Peterson wrote:
I must confess I shared Tom Allaway's reaction. I would hope the
student can differentiate psychological science from these other "shadows"
that characterize--some would say plague, psychological practice. On the
other hand, there are
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