As a freshman, I also bought one of those books prepared by a student
organization that published ratings of professors and commentary about their
classes. I think I paid $1 for my copy (cheap even in those days).
I wasn't a psych major then but I selected a psychology course to meet a
general st
I see no problem, also. I thought that the grade distribution was public
information for those of us teaching at public institutions (unless the class
has fewer than 10 students, then it can't be released by FERPA rules).
When I was an undergraduate at Georgia Tech an enterprising group of stud
Some subscribers to TIPS and TeachEdPsych might be interested in a
recent post "Learning Outcomes: Face-to-Face vs Online #7" [Hake
(2011)]. The abstract reads:
ABSTRACT: In his post "Re: Learning Outcomes: Face-to-Face vs
Online," POD's Mike Theall
Hi
Cornell adopted the policy in mid 1990s to publish median grades. See
http://registrar.sas.cornell.edu/Student/mediangradesA.html
Some research did suggest, however, that students shopped for easy
courses. I'm not sure if study was published. Here is short news
account:
http://www.busine
Hi Miguel-
I don't see a problem with this at all. In fact, I think that it is a positive.
Really not very different than ratemyprofessors.com. If I were to become a
student again (in a formal sense; I hope I never stop being a student) I would
want to have access to a resource like this. I onc
My reaction is to wonder what chumps would invest in this
corporation. First, as a student at Almost-a State University, I
could give a flying fig as to what students at Univ Calif--Banana
Slug (even though they have the best mascot in the universe)
think of Professor X at ASU as a teacher
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 15:17:01 -0800, Miguel Roig-Reardon wrote:
>This weekend's edition of the NY Times included the Education Life
>section, which had an interesting opinion piece about how a private
>company used the Freedom of Information Act to successfully force
>professors at one state uni
This weekend's edition of the NY Times included the Education Life section,
which had an interesting opinion piece about how a private company used the
Freedom of Information Act to successfully force professors at one state
university to reveal the grade distributions for their courses.
>
Sorry, I meant my last message for Sue. Sorry
Jim
Jim Matiya
Visiting Instructor in Psychology
Florida Gulf Coast University
jmat...@fgcu.edu
> Subject: [tips] Jan 25th: "A Conversation with David Myers"
> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:52:44 -0800
> From: sfra...@highline.edu
> To: tips@fsu
Hi Sue,
I haven't seen too many letters from you recently. I was going to ask if
everyting is okay? I can see that you are back on track!
I asked Dave if it would be okay if my student "attended" the discussion, and
he said sure. So, we wil be there!
Jim
Jim Matiya
Visiting Instructor in P
I promised I would send a compendium of responses to my query about online
masters' programs. Considering that I sent this to two lists I don't think I
have very many responses. And only one person responded to the query about
contacts in the Tampa area.
Also, some of the responses are diametri
Hypotheses about what factors contributed to the shooting in Arizona
abound.However it seems to me that the most credible source is the gunman-so
why not ask the gunman?
Of course his lawyer will not permit this.
So we keep on hypothesing.
Michael "omnicentric" Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florid
This is a reminder message for the upcoming p...@cc PsyChat.
One person asked if this was going to just be a conversation between
myself and David Myers. It is not. I'm just the moderator. Everyone
in attendance will be able to ask questions and make comments. In
similar sessions I've done bef
On 10 Jan 2011 at 2:40, Allen Esterson contributed another candidate
for a doggy mnemonist, here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8441974.stm
as a follow-up to the one at Wofford, here:
>http://tinyurl.com/2vew4so
But note that the testing procedure differs. I had meant to point out
that
The Departmental Consulting Service (DCS) is a service offered to psychology
departments through the joint efforts of the APA Education Directorate and the
Society for the Teaching of Psychology (STP). Developed in response to an
increasing need for evaluations, the service provides recommendat
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