Yet another entry to our “Scientists Now Know” collection: When students take a test, if the test booklet (or whatever) already seems to indicate that the student will be given a bad grade the student tends to perform poorly. And if the test booklet hints that the student will be given a good grade, the […]
Tag: education
Defense Against the Dark Arts (CPU)
The influence of Harry Potter spreads deeper: “Defense Against the Dark Arts,” Mark W. Bailey, Clark L. Coleman and Jack W. Davidson, Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education archive, Proceedings of the 39th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education, Portland, OR, USA, 2008, pp. 315-319. The authors, at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY and at […]
Grammer tribute: Arrythmias
Today we pay tribute to Doctors John C. Grammer and Michael M. Dehn of Dallas, Texas, star and director (respectively) of a sparsely superb medical education film, made in 1980, about arrythmias of the heart:
Analysis of sidewalk fractures
Geology professor Charles Onasch of Bowling Green State University suggests a lesson in observation and analysis: ANALYSIS OF SIDEWALK FRACTURES Summary Using fractures in sidewalks as an analog for natural outcrops, students learn to make systematic observations, measure the orientation and location of fractures, manipulate and analyze data, and consider some kinematic and dynamic questions […]