During our lunch and dinner breaks I sat with and talked to every other discipline that was at our readings (Bio, Calc, Chinese, ArtHist) except Latin, I somehow missed the Latin folks. All of the other readers I talked to had seen This is Sparta. Even tiny little Art History ;)
Interesting, but I think we all agreed with the spirit of the link you sent us--hardly a political statement when students carefully crossed it out so it wouldn't jeapordize their scores! I have to say, we did have our fun with it by the end, and in a funny way it energized the readings! Very interesting phenomenon. I wonder if it energized the test takers in any way? Oh, probably not, given average scores.....:( I wish everything was NOT so political in fact, and that we didn't have to be so secretive and that anonymity and confidentiality prevent any access to the booklets outside of the scoring, because I had a sense from the few ones I came across--only a small percentage of the psych exams if the facebook group only numbered 30,000, as there were nearly 132,000 psych exams to grade (if anyone is interested, that's a fair increase, reflecting a steady increase in AP psych exams--and as a second aside within this parenthesis apparently annually more and more and more students are opting to take AP classes and exams as a way to get cheaper college general ed units 'out of the way')--that based on my very informal observation of my very small subsample the 'This is Sparta' crowd didn't score as well as the others. I wish that could be truly investigated, but it can't. Alas. We are such a PC society. 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] ---- Original message ---- >Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:52:54 -0700 >From: "Naomi Schatz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [tips] This is Sparta >To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <[email protected]> > >For those of you at the AP reading... see interesting article: > >http://www.examiner.com/a-1443213~This_is_Sparta____Facebook_prank_or_political_statement_.html > > > >Naomi Schatz > >The Harker School > >500 Saratoga Ave > >San Jose, CA 95129 > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >--- >To make changes to your subscription contact: > >Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >________________ >TNEF25826.rtf (5k bytes) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
