Below is a blog about a "science" project a sixth grader was allowed to conduct.
Project Title: Better Living Through God
possummomma.blogspot.com/2008/...e.html
I will not copy and paste it here because the text is color coded. It is short and somewhat funny (#12 is my favorite).
The blog author and commentator did not discuss one very important ethical flaw on the student's part. The student did not anonymize the data sets (i.e. remove the names from the data sets) In fact, no unique identifiers should have been collected to begin with.
I post this here because it seems to be an accurate reflection of the general science education in this country, at least in the South. Students in my college courses have little idea what a conditioned stimulus or an unconditioned stimulus are, for example.
Project Title: Better Living Through God
possummomma.blogspot.com/2008/...e.html
I will not copy and paste it here because the text is color coded. It is short and somewhat funny (#12 is my favorite).
The blog author and commentator did not discuss one very important ethical flaw on the student's part. The student did not anonymize the data sets (i.e. remove the names from the data sets) In fact, no unique identifiers should have been collected to begin with.
I post this here because it seems to be an accurate reflection of the general science education in this country, at least in the South. Students in my college courses have little idea what a conditioned stimulus or an unconditioned stimulus are, for example.
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Re: Sixth Grade Science Project
Sat, February 9, 2008 - 1:32 AMWow. It's so sad that children are raised with such inane ideas.
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Re: Sixth Grade Science Project
Sun, February 10, 2008 - 1:59 PM>> Students in my college courses have little idea what a conditioned stimulus or an unconditioned stimulus are
Do you really expect kids to learn much about behavioral psychology in high school?
