Archive for October, 2009

09-10-31

Tags:Education Paperville Statstics Teaching NAEP Studies - State Mapping
Mapping State Proficiency Standards Onto NAEP Scales: 2005-2007
October 2009
Authors: Victor Bandeira de Mello, Charles Blankenship, Don McLaughlin
 Download the complete report in a PDF file for viewing and printing. (2985K PDF)

Executive Summary

Since 2003, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has sponsored the development of […]

">Mapping State Reading Standards to a Common Metric

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09-10-30

Tags:Paperville psychology Research Teaching Behavioral and Brian Sciences upcoming article: 
 
Target Article: "The Weirdest People in the World?"Authors: Joseph Henrich, Steven J. Heine and Ara Norenzayan
Deadline for proposals: November 19, 2009
Abstract (short):  Broad claims about human psychology and behavior based on narrow samples from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic (WEIRD) societies are regularly published […]

">The Weirdest People in the World?
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09-10-24

Tags:Education psychology Teaching NY Times reports that Disney, the current parent of Baby Einstein, acknowledges the uselessness of the video series. For years I have been using this as an example of commercialization of child development in my developmental psych course. I had come to accept it as a fact of life, but this news gives […]

">No Einstein in Your Crib? Get a Refund - NYTimes.com
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09-10-21

Tags: Last Friday, Ethan, 6, weighed himself in the YMCA locker room and announced excitedly "I am 47lb!"
"I am 147lb," I said.
"Some pumpkins are 2000lbs, you know", he snapped back.

">Ethan on pumpkins and me
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