In response to my post "Why Don't Psychologists Research the
Effectiveness of Their Introductory Courses?" [Hake (2007)], Annette
Taylor in her TIPS post of 24 Jan 2007 16:45:22-0800 wrote [slightly
edited]:
"When I go to. . . [the URL in the Sotherland et al. (2007)
reference]. . . I get a general page about the CLA but I cannot find
the article itself. I'd like to read the whole article."
Then in a latter post of 24 Jan 2007 16:48:00-0800, Annetta wrote
[slightly edited]:
"Another small glitch: I could not view . . .[Holton (2007)]. . .
either, because it is password protected.
Unfortunately the article by Sotherland et al. (2007) is, as far as I
know, not on the web. Psychologist Bob Grossman kindly sent me a
copy. Searches for "Understanding CLA Performance at Kalamazoo
College" (with the quotes) at both Google <http://www.google.com/>
and Google Scholar <http://scholar.google.com> yielded zero hits, so
I assume it's not currently online. I hope that situation will change.
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REFERENCES [Tiny URL's courtesy <http://tinyurl.com/create.php>.]
Hake, R.R. 2007. "Why Don't Psychologists Research the Effectiveness
of Their Introductory Courses?" online at
<http://www.mail-archive.com/tips%40acsun.frostburg.edu/msg20316.html>.
Post of 24 Jan 2007 15:14:29-0800 to PhysLrnR, PhysTeacher, POD, TIPS.
Holton, D. 2007. Re: Pretest and Post-test instruments for an
Introduction to Psychology," PhysLrnR post of 20 Jan 2007
23:01:17-0800; online at <http://tinyurl.com/yqkbg6>.
Sotherland, P. A. Dueweke, K. Cunningham, B. Grossman, and G. Mahler.
2007. "Big Picture Results, Find Grained Analysis: Understanding CLA
Performance at Kalamazoo College.". . . [CLA = Collegiate Learning
Assessment, co-directed by Richard Hersh (2005)]. . . Sotherland et
al. write: "Through a grant from The Teagle Foundation, and as part
of an assessment collaborative with Colorado College and Earlham
College, we administered the CLA to first-year students and then to
seniors during the 2005-2006 academic year. First-year students took
the CLA during Orientation Week in the fall and seniors took the CLA
in late winter quarter or early spring quarter." [The Collegiate
Learning Assessment is designed to measure the ability to think
critically, reason analytically, and write effectively - see
<http://www.cae.org/content/pro_collegiate.htm>].
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