Thanks to everyone who responded to my REM sleep/movement question!
I now need help on this one.
What is the difference in brain wave patterns for a person who has been
knocked unconscious?
Do they still go through the five stages of sleep?
James Kevin Denson
Kempsville High School
Social
michael sylvester wrote, A species of dolphins in India have a unique way of
sleeping: they alternate REM in both hem-when one side of the brain is asleep
the other side is awake. This could be construed as a survival tragedy to
prevent drowning.
Actually, unilateral sleep is not at all
Some subscribers to TIPS and PsychTeacher might be interested in the
post Re: Confessions of a Public Speaker [Hake (2010)]. The
abstract reads:
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ABSTRACT: Presentations at professional meetings are usually
soporific. For almost half a century
Unconsciousness is not a very useful term since it generally refers
to a person being unaware and unresponsive to their environment. But
to what degree?
Clinicians recognize various levels of consciousness/lack of
consciosness from awake to a persistently vegetative state.
I don't think there is
Hi Marte--
One option would be require them to pay to take the ETS major field test in
psychology for both classes.
Julie Osland
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Marte Fallshore ma...@cwu.edu wrote:
Hi, everybody. In case anyone's missed me, I'm back. Still mostly lurking,
but I do have a
Not knowing what the learning outcomes are for your program makes answering
your question more difficult.
If you are focused entirely on content and fact retrieval, a pre-post test
doesn't pose a very interesting question. You could probably answer it
better by using something like the Major
Hi, everybody. In case anyone's missed me, I'm back. Still mostly lurking, but
I do have a question. My school, like all the others, is obsessed with
assessment (sounds like a poem title by e.e. cummings, doesn't it?). I was
wondering if anyone out there does a pre- posttest assessment of
We have a pre/post test that we give that we developed in-house based
on our outcomes. We developed it because our assessment group really
wanted something very objective included in the mix of our assessment.
Ours is not normed - we have only given it twice and are still working
on it. The
I'm with Julia and Claudia: use the MFAT. It's cheap and thorough.
I did want to say that I don't think you need to do a pre-test, though. It's
*highly* unlikely you're going to have a substantial number of students who
come to your degree program already knowing psych. Even an AP class in
I agree with Marc's point about the pre-test and I would also say that it
probably wouldn't be a good idea if everyone started using the MFT in this way
because that would tend to really skew the normative sample for seniors (unless
ETS provides a way for you to take the test while excluding
We have used the MFAT for two years. We'll keep using it but a major
problem is that we do not teach our students to take multiple-choice
tests so the format of the MFAT assessment does not map all that well to
the skills we emphasize in our upper level courses. However, we do use
it to observe
Hi Mike-
Just a couple of thoughts to add to Jim's excellent response. The Canadian
Correctional Service has, over the years, helped to develop a number of
instruments to help parole boards make better decisions. Bob Hare's Psychopathy
Checklist (revised) is just one example.
As far as
Let me add a me too. I agree with the use of the MFT and also agree with the
Rick and others that the pre-test may not be the best idea. We did the
pretest/posttest once and it was not very good on the pretest end. First was
the problem that we gain lose majors along the way, and, many of the
We use gain scores because we don't have a normed test. You could if your
institution is really committed to assessment have them pay for students to
take the ACAT or MFT from ETS at the welcome to the major course point in time
and again at graduation time. Otherwise, any homegrown test can
All of our students taken an upper division lab course and have to write either
a full APA paper or a grant proposal which we ask them to write the body of,
and anticipated results and discussion in APA style. I've attached our scoring
rubric for anyone who is intersted. I plan to present this
Maybe I should have said this in my e-mail, but we already used the MFAT
as an end of major assessment. What we wanted was something that would
show that they actually learned something beyond what they came in with.
We did talk about having faculty write questions for each class they
teach, but I
The ACAT in psychology has been available since 1983 and is in its 8th
revision. It can be used as a paired pre-post test at entry to and exit
from the major. We've been collecting data on changes in learning across
the major for 20 years and can provide gain scores based on a cumulative
JAMES KEVIN DENSON
Michael omnicentric Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
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