18.700 Fall 2010, Final Exam Solutions

The Use of “Non-Fiction Novels” in a Sensation and Perception Course

Scientific material can be difficult to relate to everyday knowledge. Textbook facts can be abstract. This Study of Teaching and Learning project examined the use of "non-fiction novels" (biographies and other books that read like novels but are true) in an undergraduate Sensation and Perception course in order to increase the concreteness of the reading material and to give the students a stor...

John Brentlinger ' s ' Marxism ' Final exam Fall 1988

Question 3: The fourth Thesi s on Peuerbach concerns itsel f with, among other matters, the nature of dialectic understanding. A proper dialectic understanding addresses itself to the immanent contradictions in the real concrete, rather than merely the contradictions between this real concrete and its ideological manisfestations -such as religion. Yes, the self as part of the system of religion...

PSY 554 Fall 10 Final Exam

As part of your work as a counselor, you will be exposed to a wide variety of assessment instruments. At times, you might be asked to comment on the appropriateness and strengths/weaknesses as a given test. The Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) is an outstanding initial source for this type of information. While we have discussed details about the psychometric strengths and weaknesses of a num...

Improving performance in quantum mechanics with explicit incentives to correct mistakes

An earlier investigation found that the performance of advanced students in a quantum mechanics course did not automatically improve from midterm to final exam on identical problems even when they were provided the correct solutions and their own graded exams. Here, we describe a study, which extended over four years, in which upper-level undergraduate students in a quantum physics course were ...

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