MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'grading'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:58:39 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4852954&cid=t_333412_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F05%2F22%2Fideology-and-grading%2F From Inside Higher Ed: Republican professors and Democratic professors presumably produce different outcomes when they enter the ballot box, but what about when they record grades? A forthcoming study finds that there may be notable differences. Democratic professors appear to be “more egalitarian” than their Republican counterparts when it comes to grading, meaning that more of the Democratic grades are in the middle. Republicans are more likely than Democrats to award very high grades and very low grades. While the study documents those differences, the work will not satisfy political partisans hoping to demonstrate that Republicans are trying to encourage Darwinian competition with grading or that Democrats are Lake Wobegon graders afraid to suggest anyone did poorly. That&#... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4852954 Sun, 22 May 2011 15:12:59 +0100 4852954 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3629708&cid=t_333412_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F06%2F04%2Fthe-situational-influence-of-red-ink%2F Last week, NPR’s All Things Considered included a story by Guy Raz about California psychology professor Abraham Rutchick‘s study of how people use red and blue pens to grade papers. Rutchick tells host Raz that the red graders were way tougher than those who used blue pens.  Here are some excerpts from the interview (which you can listen at this link). * * * GUY RAZ, host: Tell me how you went about studying this theory. Prof. RUTCHICK: The basic idea is that throughout our lives we get papers handed back to us from teachers with a bunch of corrections on them, and typically they’re in red ink. * * * Prof. RUTCHICK: That happens enough times over the course of our lives that the idea of red ink and red pens and error is in correction, you know, gets sort of lodged in ou... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3629708 Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:18:40 +0100 3629708 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2908914&cid=t_333412_165_f&fid=36770&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmetaot.com%2Fblog%2Fdyspraxia Hi I am working on a group presentation regarding dyspraxia in a young adult. We are looking at cooking as an occupation with this particular case study and would like to find some evidence particularly for grading, compensatory frame of reference, the adaptive skills approach and cooking. In an ideal world it would be great to find articles which incorporate all these but I was wondering if anybody could point me in the right direction of articles covering any of the above topics. Many thanks Nick (Source: meta-ot blogs) meta-ot blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2908914 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:08:06 +0100 2908914 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1460864&cid=t_333412_87_f&fid=34825&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wesleyjsmith.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F05%2Fdna-fingerprinting-identifies-viable_2914.html By Jennifer Lahl Has the era of high tech embryo profiling arrived? I have been following the recent study published in the journal Human Reproduction. Researchers have combined the technology that allows them to screen embryos at the blastocyst stage with the DNA fingerprinting and microarray analysis technology in order to identify the viable blastocysts transferred into the mother. The search for the best embryo has always been part of the IVF equation with all the quality controls put in place in the lab. So how is the research being conducted? “The researchers tested the DNA of early in vitro fertilization embryos before implanting them into the womb, and then compared the results with the DNA of the healthy babies that were born, and found a cluster of genes that could be used to e... Secondhand Smoke blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1460864 Wed, 21 May 2008 17:06:00 +0100 1460864