Meyers, Diana Tietjens, "Emotion and Heterodox Moral Perception: An Essay in Moral Social Psychology" in Feminists Rethink the Self, Meyers, Diana Tietjens (ed)., Boulder: Westview Press, 1997.
Mike Harvey, Irvine... To the editor: The reason more people don't take history is because it seems boring, a perception that this essay perpetuates. .
Along with the perception that perfectly developed essays are essential is the sense among some parents and teachers that colleges have shifted from valuing balanced students who excel in several areas, like history and ice hockey, to demanding students who perform well across all subjects and have an area of "mastery," like squash or fencing, that showcases one's depth.
One of the first and most influential studies of scientist stereotypes involved the analysis of essays regarding perceptions of scientists from ∼35,000 high school students (Mead and Metraux, 1957).
The current study considered how students' perceptions of automated essay scoring and feedback influenced their writing performance, revising behaviors, and future intentions toward the technology.
Second, in her ladylike way, Vreeland constantly deflected credit away from herself: "Never say 'I,' always say 'we,' " she declared in her book-length essay on the perception of beauty, "Allure" (recently brought back into print).
Yet the presiding sensibility belongs to editor Georges Bataille - sometime librarian, failed priest and pornographer - a man whose essays drew hallucinatory perceptions from such mundane phenomena as dust and saliva, and who kept photographs of real-life torture and mutilation on his desk, claiming to see 'true ecstasy' in the victims' faces.
In the Essay Condillac defined perception as the impression first occasioned in the mind by the action of objects on the senses.
The qualitative analyses suggest that raters had inconsistent perceptions toward certain features of essays compared to the experts, such as the amount of textual borrowing, the development of ideas, and the consistency of the focus.
We used a mixed- methods approach with rater accuracy defined quantitatively based on Rasch measurement theory, and a survey-based qualitative method designed to investigate rater perceptions and judgments toward student essays within the context of IW assessments.
