I had a colleague who, with all good intention, would include many
students on conference presentation abstracts, not all of whom even
knew what the research (which they supposedly co-authored) was about.
The good intention was to increase the chances of getting students
considered by graduate programs. However, I agree, that this
potentially places the student in a position to fail or at least to be
embarrassed. I can easily imagine a situation in which one of these
students might be interviewed for a graduate program and asked, with
good intentions, by the interviewer to elaborate upon the research they
co-authored. If the student did not really know about what they were
involved, the subsequent response would presumably actually ending-up
jeopardizing the student's chances of acceptance.
Of course, such practices also potentially erode the reputation of the
department and school from which these papers originate.
On Mar 26, 2007, at 10:31 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In addition, as the Fine and Kurkic (1993) article states, giving
authorship to students who do not merit it can set them up to fail. I
just think that some of us need to be a little more judicious in how
we select students to work with us in our research. Also, I certainly
don't want students working with me to treat these opportunities as
just another academic assignment (to get that other 'piece of
paper').
Please feel free to share the slides with your students.
Fine, M. A. and Kurdek, L. A. (1993). Reflections on determining
authorship credit and authorship order on faculty-student
collaborations. American Psychologist, 48, 1141-1147.
-------------- Original message --------------
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Thanks Miguel:
>
> (1) I had a colleague in my department read and comment on a paper
for me a
> couple of years ago and she pointed out that using the word 'effect'
in a title
> suggests a causal relationship, which honestly, I had not thought
about prior to
> her commentary; after that I switched to 'efficacy'.....
>
> (2) You really picked on a laterality study! Is this from a
particularly poor
> paper that was published, or a student paper? I'd like to see the
paper if it's
> public domain.
>
> (3) In terms of authorship: I have frequently shared authorship with
students
> who did a combination of all of the things that you mention in your
section,
> including, "Activities, such as entering information in a database,
collecting
> actual data, getting articles from the library, xeroxing, etc. are
not
> sufficient to merit authorship."
>
> I add them on as authors if they do all of these things because that
is the
> primarily skill level at which they are performing, plus working
with me to put
> together a conference presentation, for example. In this way they
are involved
> in all of the background readings and all of the tasks of carrying
out the
> study, but, agreed, not in the actual "intellectual" work. Do you
think that is
> wrong-minded of me? Without their work, there would have been no
finished
> product!
>
> (4) Salami slicing: now that's a sticky topic because sometimes we
start out
> collecting lots of data for the purpose of being able to eventually
test
> multiple, perhaps interr-related hypotheses. I've also not thought
of that as
> somehow inappropriate, but rather a more efficient way to collect
data.
>
> (5) Finally, may I share your presentation with my students, just as
it is, with
> the credits to you and St. John's?
>
> Annette
>
>
>
>
> Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D.
> Professor of Psychology
> University of San Diego
> 5998 Alcala Park
> San Diego, CA 92110
> 619-260-4006
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
---
To make changes to your subscription go to:
http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?
enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
========================================================
Steven M. Specht, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Utica College
Utica, NY 13502
(315) 792-3171
"Mice may be called large or small, and so may elephants, and it is
quite understandable when someone says it was a large mouse that ran up
the trunk of a small elephant" (S. S. Stevens, 1958)
---
To make changes to your subscription go to:
http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
