Research for the Advancement of Psychology Teaching. Whitneykilgore.sharedby.co/share/5AsFEj. How to edit your dissertation. Don't underestimate the time required to review and revise your dissertation. In this third and final part of our series, we look at how to do a good job of editing. Review your work as a whole Keep your outline plan in front of you, and go through your work as a whole. Have you developed a clear argument in response to your central question or dissertation title? Make sure the content matches the title appropriately – don't be afraid to re-phrase your dissertation topic if you've shifted focus while writing or you want to do so while reviewing.
Have you defined key words and concepts early on? Review each section. Ten things than can sink a grant proposal: Advice for a young psychologist. So you’ve slaved away for weeks giving up any semblance of social or family life in order to put your best ideas on paper.
The grant proposal disappears into the void for months during which your mental state oscillates between optimistic fantasies of the scientific glory that will result when your research is funded, and despair and anxiety at the prospect of rejection. And then it comes: the email of doom: “We regret that your application was not successful.” Sometimes just a bald statement, and sometimes embellished with reviewer comments and ratings that induce either rage or depression, depending on your personality type. Morality. Computing for Psychologists. This page will form a collection of computing/psychology-related links, organised by relatively arbitrary yet hopefully reasonably sensible categories; this is very much a work-in-progress.
Categories at the top of the page are more general, those at the bottom are more specifically psychology/neuroscience related. If you come across any broken or wrong links, or would like me to include something that isn’t here, please let me know by posting a comment. General things. Helping students differentiate surface from deep learning. This Explains Everything: 192 Thinkers Each Select the Most Elegant Explanation of How the World Works. Positive Procrastination, Not an Oxymoron. Royal Institution Christmas Lectures: online teaching resource. The 12 cognitive biases that prevent you from being rational. Life's what you make it.
Philosophy for Children. First published Thu May 2, 2002; substantive revision Tue Jan 1, 2013 In the United States, philosophy typically makes its formal entry into the curriculum at the college level.
A growing number of high schools offer some introduction to philosophy, often in special literature courses for college bound students. In Europe and many other countries, it is much more common to find philosophy in the high school curriculum. 10 Questions To Distinguish Real From Fake Science. Take First-Class Philosophy Lectures Anywhere with Free Oxford Podcasts. Image by llee wu, via Flickr Commons When someone develops an interest in philosophy, good luck trying to keep them away from it.
They'll find the stuff anywhere. These days, the internet makes possible such wide and instantaneous dissemination of philosophical materials that you literally can find it anywhere. (Take for example our list of 140 Free Philosophy Courses from Great Universities.) With developments in internet media, even the biggest institutional players in philosophy have joined in. Research Utopia. What is critical thinking. Web Gems: 10 Great Short Clips that Illustrate Psychological Principles. As a university teacher, I have learned over the past several years to make nice use of the web in my classroom.
Incidentally, I think that the internet has changed-or should change-the ways teachers work and define their role. We used to be more like artists, in charge of creating content. Now, perhaps, we are more like museum curators, in charge of finding and choosing worthy existing content and organizing it for our audience in coherent ways. Thou shalt not commit logical fallacies. Critically Thinking About Critical Thinking - Blog - SociologySource.org.
Critical thinking.
Almost every teacher everywhere asserts that this is the one skill above all others they are trying to develop in their students. And yet. And yet, have you ever explicitly taught a student the mechanics of critical thinking? S blog: Good thinking. Some people are careful to note that critical thinking isn’t anything negative or mean and that there is no predisposition to finding flaws.
This is nonsense. A strong part of it is subjecting ideas to focused and savage criticism. Criticism gets a bad press. Criticism is constructive; nothing ever improves or evolves without criticism. Literature Reviews and Reverse Outlines. After a recent discussion of reverse outlines on Twitter, I had a flurry of visits to my reverse outlines post.
The Twitter conversation concerned reverse outlining as a way to help with literature reviews, so I thought it might be useful to spell out that connection more explicitly. A reverse outline is a great way to address the most common flaws of lit reviews: poor organization and poor articulation of research goals. These two issues are closely connected, but I am going to discuss them in turn. Tackling student skepticism of psychology: Recommendations for instructors. “Are you analyzing me right now?”
Most psychologists receive this question from students, laypersons or both at some point after sharing their professional identities. Indeed, psychology is often all Freud, all the time, and many or most psychologists are clinicians to the average person (Ewing et al., 2010). Moreover, surveys suggest that the general public does not hold an especially positive impression of our field’s scientific basis (Lilienfeld, 2011).
Understanding Evolution For Teachers. Text only version. Higher education policy: 12 UK blogs worth bookmarking. Online is a university of the mind.
For every newspaper article or research paper that appears in printed form, there are many more articles, debates and comments on the internet. The Lesson of the Monkeys. I was first told of this experiment* by a former work colleague, and later discovered this illustration of it. It’s both illuminating and disturbing. There is a clunky word that describes this phenomenon: filiopietism, or the reverence of forebears or tradition carried to excess. But I prefer another term for it: the tragic circle. Causal models of developmental disorders: the perils of correlational data.
Experimental psychology depends heavily on statistics, but psychologists don’t always agree about the best ways of analyzing data. Take the following problem: I have two groups each of 30 children, dyslexics and controls. I give them a test of auditory discrimination and find a significant difference between the groups, with the dyslexic mean being lower. I want to see whether reading ability is related to the auditory task. Tips on scientific writing from European Science Editors « sharmanedit. The European Association of Science Editors guidelines for scientific writing are a great resource. I have recently joined the European Association of Science Editors (EASE). They have a valuable document on their website: EASE Guidelines for Authors and Translators of Scientific Articles to be Published in English (pdf; published June 2011). These guidelines are full of useful tips for those who write or edit scientific articles in English or translate them into English.
Enhancing Feedback. The Most “Dangerous” Idea I Know. Open for business? Why universities must collaborate on OpenCourseWare. Leading higher education specialists from across the world convened at Cambridge University in April for a landmark global conference on the future of online learning. The contrast here between the ancient and the modern, the traditional and the new, reflects the challenges of standardising the digital learning revolution across higher education globally. AI graders get top marks for scoring essay questions - tech - 25 April 2012. COMPUTERS can grade student essays just as well as humans, it seems. Grading software is used by some universities and US states to mark exams. Top 50 Psychology Professors on Twitter. Twitter helps you connect with the brilliant minds who research, make news and inspire students around the world.
Looking for a little daily wisdom? Digital literacy campaign – Michael Gove's speech in full. Thank you very much, Dominic, for that kind introduction. Reader Question: What Should I Do With My Degree? Twelve Things You Were Not Taught in School About Creative Thinking. What Is Science? From Feynman to Sagan to Curie, an Omnibus of Definitions. Co-Vary Or Die. The Scale of the Universe 2. Design and Analysis of Algorithms I. New Study Examines Political Perceptions of Scientists. Most scientists in the US and UK blame public ignorance of science for flawed policy preferences and political choices.
They tend to be critical of media coverage, yet rate favorably their own experience with the media. Scientists say policy-makers and journalists are the most important groups to engage and view the public as having secondary importance in political decision-making. Study: A Lot of Mind and Brain Research Depends on Flawed Statistics. Rethinking Gifted Education Policy – A Call to Action. Is Lecturing Always Unethical? Rudeness at work has serious consequences. Want to Be a Good Researcher? Try Teaching - Faculty. Matt Damon’s clear-headed speech to teachers rally - The Answer Sheet. Share your Twitter top tips for a new ‘how-to’ guide for academics on the merits of academic tweeting. How does that make you feel? Looking at the value of college through the prism of therapy. How far should we trust health reporting? How students’ achievement goals shape their beliefs about effective teaching: A ‘build-a-professor’ study - Senko - 2011 - British Journal of Educational Psychology. Revamped college science course improves student performance.