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From: Marc Carter
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 7:57 PM
Subject: RE: [tips] Let us abolish paper assignments
I'm not, but we send more than 70% of our students to grad school. If you
can write, you can think, and you can make it in grad school. Teaching writing
is teaching thinking. That's why I do it.
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Marc Carter, PhD
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Psychology
College of Arts & Sciences
Baker University
This is an example of the Fallacy of transfer-the idea that somehow current
classroom behaviors (poor attendance,turning in shoddy work.always
late,attitudes) are indicative or predictive of post classroom or
post-graduation behaviors.Students know how to behave in various situations.I
have known students who display negative attitudes in the classroom and when I
go through the check-out counter and that same student is the cashier,that same
student is very positive at the cgeck-out register. JUST BECAUSE IT HAPPENS IN
THE CLASSROOM DOES NOT IMPLY IT WILL HAPPEN AT WORK OR GRAD SCHOOL.It is true
that writing is more exact than thinking,but we do not want to tell students
that just because they are poor writers they are not thinking right.This
perspective is similar to the attutude some people had about the Southern
accent-that the Southern accent indicated stupidity and ignorance.
Michael "omnicentric" Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
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From: michael sylvester [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 3:47 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: [tips] Let us abolish paper assignments
Are we teaching English classes?
Michael "omnicentric" Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
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