Citing R and RStudio
The software is great — well worth giving credit for. And damn, they make it easy.
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Tests, Exams, and the correlation between them
A comparison of three kinds of tests and its correlation with exam scores.
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Science and the Hard Sciences
A comment on the reaction (shitstorm) to Hudlicky's essay "'Organic synthesis--Where now?' is thirty years old. A reflection on the current state of affairs".
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Psychology in a Crisis (and check the sources)
A comment on the value of psychology in a crisis like Corona and the importance of checking the sources.
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The best predictor for future behavior is past behavior. — Or: What I wouldn’t give for a good Learning Analytics System
It's impressive what you can do with the information about students performance way before they take their final exam. If there just were a good learning analytics system to ... you know, actually use the information. Of course, that would require that student performance was actually something most universities did care about.
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Necrophilic Teaching
Teaching dead bodies.
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Recommendation: The Rubin Report (esp. Dr. Everett Piper Interview)
Can't say I'm a fan of religious institutions, but Dr. Everett Pipers Interview on "The Rubin Report" is worth watching.
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Things that work very well with R: short scale (or: Fishfood ;-))
A short example of using R for short scale development.
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Jonathan Haidt on Institutionalized Disconfirmation in Universities
A short 10 minute clip of Jonathan Haidt regarding our confirmation biases and that we need others to cancel those out.
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Making sense of the stuff you have collected during the initial stages of your PhD thesis
A couple of people I know are currently in a similar stage in their PhD — they have done some studies/development/research, but they don't know what they have or where the trip is going. Some suggestions.
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