[Physltest] [Phys-L] Re: "Effective" teaching methods

[Brian Whatcott <betwys1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>]

Naturally, one wishes to prefer the evidence adduced by a science journalist
in writing that well-known genre - the debunking piece:   he/she is after
all a senior editor at a magazine; in preference to the sources
referred to as follows:  countless textbooks, Ph.D. theses, journal articles,
[psychologists] and learned panels . One reserves judgment however.....

Brian W

By Berkeley Rice
Most students of social psych are familiar with, or had better be if they
want to pass. For decades, countless textbooks, Ph.D. theses, journal
articles,
and learned panels have cited it as a possible explanation for everything from
why juvenile criminals in experimental program decide to go straight to why
insomniacs sleep better in the laboratory. Whenever psychologists gather,
one is apt to hear mention of the Hawthorne effect-even though, as it happens,
  the effect was never actually demonstrated by the original study.
/and so on.../


At 03:15 PM 11/16/2004, Jack, you wrote:
>         So, once again, we deal with the Hawthorne Legend which, like the
> heads of the Hydra, seems to come back double each time it is disposed of.
> The Hawthorne mythology is discussed at:
>
> http://www.cs.unc.edu/~stotts/204/nohawth.html
>
>                                                 Regards,
>                                                         Jack
>
>
>
> On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Brian Whatcott wrote:
>
> > At 10:12 AM 11/16/2004, you wrote:
> > > A colleague of mine is a former industrial physicist.  He told me of =
> > > a study in which a firm was trying to influence employee's productivi=
> > > ty. ///
> > > Vickie Frohne
> >
> >
> > Vickie's anecdote might well have been describing the celebrated
> > Hawthorne effect, where a group of workers was set up with improved
> > illumination, with the expected results
> ///

Brian Whatcott    Altus OK    Eureka!
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