question
Mary Bryson (brys who-is-at unixg.ubc.ca)
Wed, 28 Apr 1999 15:29:04 -0700
Sorry to have yet another question, but as I become firmly entrenched in
middle age, my memory is doing the most extraordinary things- like
disappearing!
I used to be able to remember everything I had ever read - author, journal,
practically the page numbers. Like a useless party trick.
Anyhow, as happens daily at this "stage", I was talking to my partner the
other day about one of my favorite studies, and couldn't remember the
author.
It's about the differences in epistemologies amongst students at different
points in their university career, which leads undergrads to view
instructor uncertainty as "the idiot just can't make up their mind" and
grads to see the same behaviors as "wow, genius, look at how hard the
professor is thinking".
research was done at Harvard and all subjects were male
research was done I think in late 40's
Does this ring anyone's bell?
Mary, who plans to plant lots of Gingko trees this summer!
Mary Bryson, Associate Professor and UBC Scholar 98/99,
Faculty of Education, UBC
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