He was willing, if not enthusiastic, to discuss these topics because, he said, he felt misunderstood and wanted to correct the record.
This paper corrects the theory previously presented on this topic.
Example 1: "I would try to backtrack to the point where the student does have the correct ideas about the topic, even if I had to go back to the very fundamentals of the topic.
A bigger and more illuminating exhibition on the topic could correct that impression.
It will be posted on the RateItAll website (example), automagically be assigned to the correct topic (which will also get its unique e-mail address) and you can always edit it afterwards if need be.
From there I would build on the greatest common denominator, encouraging them to use any correct information base in the topic they might have as a foundation, and build on that or bridge from that to where they need to be".
Although there has been some debate about the topic of correcting for multiple testing, we agree about the notion that exaggeration in correcting for multiple testing is as likely to harm scientific evidence as the lack of it, as it may negate true positive associations (Perneger, 1998; Krawczak et al, 2001).
The percent correct on the final exam in the Topic Analysis group was compared with the Control Analysis group.
But overall, the impression that I have for the use of social media was based around the ideas that social networks are a lot like company beer bashes -- everyone hangs out, talks about whatever comes to mind, but generally stays politically correct and keep the topics on positive notes.
Criteria for choosing questions included the difficulty of the question (determined by the percent correct scores from the students), the topic of each question (based on the topics outlined in the course syllabus), question clarity, and how the percent correct changed if peer instruction was involved.
