The participants were told to type characters into the computer and not to touch the ‘SHIFT’ key as it would cause a computer crash, they were paid for their participation. Part way through the study the computer was made to crash and the experimenter accused the participant of touching the ‘SHIFT’ key and gave false incriminating evidence, that she ‘had seen it with her own eyes’. The experimenter then asked for a hand written confession stating it was their fault and would forfeit 80% of their promised fee, a negative consequence. 80% of participants signed the confession, whilst over 50% gave confabulated details (gave false evidence to fill in the gaps) and personality showed no impact on the signing of a false confession. The research showed just how easy it to elicit a false confession from someone and these are more likely to be a result of situation rather than personality.
June 18th, 2008, a grotesque biding game is undermining university standards, Geoffrey alderman talks about how university standards are being lowered for non academic and unethical reasons in his article. He starts his article with talking generally about many universities in the U.K trying not only to eliminate failing, but even lower grades. He goes along and talks about how those universities are stopping academics from punishing or failing their student because of cheating or low grades. Furthermore, how officials have more say in academic matters than academia scholars. alderman continues to talk about examinations and how external examiners no longer have a say during exams, but are merely their to watch the student being orderly and following procedures, and are not allowed to embark any grade penalties for cheating or otherwise.
Many people will agree that it is a college campus’s responsibilities to protect students and teachers while on the property, but where does the line between protecting the college community and taking away Constitutional rights blur? Due to the large amount of hate speech circulating around college campuses around America, colleges are having to choice between students’s right of free speech or the college communities right to be free from harassment and discrimination. I believe hate speech codes are essential for a positive learning environment on college campuses because regulations of speech; protect students and teachers, discourages racism, and allows for a more successful, civil learning environment. You’re walking to class, minding
First, he had to decide whether to investigate each cadet accused of cheating. Second, Berry had to decide if he wanted to continue the standard Cadet Honor Board Investigations or develop a quicker and more systematic method of investigation that everyone agreed upon. Diagnosis The electrical engineer course was a very difficult class for all the cadets. Most of the cadets felt that these courses did not have any relevance to the military or their training. The Honor Code at West Point is very straight forward and states: “A Cadet will not lie, cheat, or steal nor tolerate those who do.” This code has been the focal point of the Academy to have the Cadets adhere to honorable and ethical practice at all times.
Attorneys for the family against the machine manufacturer (AECL) The Therac-25 design eliminated many of the hardware safety features that been built into previous designs, assuming the software was functioning correctly and eliminated the need for safety features. Prior machines had been known to have software issues that would frequently shut down the machine. No overdoses were given because the hardware intervened. These features were eliminated in the Therac-25, an obvious example of poor judgment on the part of the manufacturer. The manufacturer of the machine responded irresponsibly in investigating incidents and in failing to make changes immediately after the very first incident.
Patricia Sullins 2/18/13 Comp I Only For the Grade In this excerpt of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance the author Robert M Pirsig presents a story of a professor, Phaedrus, who wanted to experiment with the removal of grades in his classroom. The main point of this excerpt is to expose many students go to school for the grade and not the knowledge itself. With this being said I agree with Phaedrus’s point of many, but not all students going to school just for the grade, even many students need to be pushed to do any class work and the biggest argument he exposes is grades are a cover up for bad teaching. The excerpt Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Pirsig is about a college professor named Phaedrus who is trying to present an idea of a gradeless college to his class and has a hypothetical student to defend his idea. His hypothetical student flunks himself out of this college and in the end he comes back to it with the need for knowledge, not a grade.
Burak recognized her research had many limitations as the sample was not randomly selected, the data was self-reported, and the design was correctional. Due to these research limitations, her research findings may not be adequate to apply to a university student population in general. Nevertheless, her research provided a good foundation and solid starting point for further research on the effects of multitasking in university classrooms. CRITIQUE Burak (2012) states that university students are constantly engaged in multitasking and that this really distracts them from learning. Students who do
These numbers continue to grow, and we cannot risk becoming a number in the statistics. Standing by and watching shall only leave Johnstown open and vulnerable to an attack. Johnstown students and teachers believe that a change is needed as well. Johnstown Monroe needs to take action towards enforcing new safety regulations to protect its students and staff from becoming victim to another shooting. 9 / 11 References Elliott, R. (2015).
Drug Testing in School .The issue at hand is whether the school administration and staff have the right to drug test any student at any time for any probable suspicion.This is unconstitutional and unethical and as Americans, it violates all our rights which were given to us by our founding fathers.This has been a controversial topic in this country for about fifteen years. They have been stealing the rights away from others for all these years and it needs to stop. They need to stop interfering with the personal lives of students.The issue in debate is the drug testing of students and the credibility of these tests in America’s school system. The issue in debate is the drug testing of students and the credibility of these tests in America’s school system due to the fact of our fourth amendment right which our founding fathers gave us and wanted us to express our rights if necessary. Drug testing in school is actually illegal when read on the constitution.
What is changing are the people involved and the environment where these freedoms are being questioned. In the essay Schools fail free speech 101, it is my observation that the author takes the position that the constitutional rights of students in American schools are being denied by teachers, principals, and administrators. The author uses many examples of these censorships of students as premises to support his conclusion (2007). In the article, the author reports about a Cincinnati high school student magazine that included a “mildly critical” article about the schools football team and the principal ordered the article be torn out of the magazine before it was distributed (Schools fail, 2007). I feel this is a strong premise to support the conclusion that administrators censor what students write in their publications.