Xref: utzoo comp.edu:1536 soc.college:2118 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!joyce!gds From: gds@spam.istc.sri.com (Greg Skinner) Newsgroups: comp.edu,soc.college Subject: Re: Student and Course Integrity Message-ID: <15405@joyce.istc.sri.com> Date: 12 Dec 88 01:16:12 GMT References: <1131@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> <1887@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> <42@microsoft.UUCP> Sender: news@joyce.istc.sri.com Reply-To: gds@spam.istc.sri.com (Greg Skinner) Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park CA Lines: 22 In article <42@microsoft.UUCP> w-colinp@microsoft.UUCP (Colin Plumb) writes: >This sounds not like the prof saying "don't bother me", but rather like an >ultimatum: you can learn something, or you can learn nothing. If you really >want to learn nothing, just get the credit, I'll oblige you right now. >Otherwise, I assume you want to learn something. My psychology professor (forgot his name) is notorious for unusual case studies. His aim was probably to determine how many students took up the offer, how many didn't, and how many believed he would carry it out. >How many people signed that list? I bet most felt pretty >uncomfortable about it. (A psych professor should be good at that!) I don't remember. I do remember some of them coming back to class, and the professor telling them afterwards that they had to take the final. Some of them didn't believe that he would carry out his promise, although other students will testify that he did, indeed, give As out to students who signed their names. Other students felt guilty about not coming to class. A few wanted to learn something. --gregbo