Publications by Brian Holt
Quick Walkthrough intro to thinking about thinking
Walk through of deeper thinking Brian Holt 2020-09-30 Pattern of presentation Abstract Content Concrete Content Broad ideas for this presentation Abstract In one of the videos on philosophy, I make reference to a philosophical concept called epistemology. Practically, this is the study of how we know what we know. It’s reflective. And t...
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Getting Started for all Classes
Getting started Course Layout Throughout the quarter you will Read/watch some things, do/write some things. You will save these written bits of work in a single document as a google doc (more on this below)] and share the document with the class on Slack where you will participate in helping one another get better at critical thinking and meta-c...
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General Psychology Schedule
Week 1 What do you want to focus on Think about what you want to learn: Some topics in the past that I have taught include the following and you may find them useful starting points to think about your own process for this quarter. Critical thinking Technical writing new paragraph finding published research Evaluating the quality of published a...
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test case 1.2
Getting started Course Layout Read/watch some things, write some things. You will save these written bits of work somewhere that can be shared. Google docs is probably the easiest. Microsoft onedrive is another. ungrading and self reflections Rubrics and point chasing are harmful. Or at worst they don’t foster good thinking and education. I a...
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Abnormal_psych_Intro_sampling
samples and populations Brian Holt 11/10/2020 Histogram example What if we are doing a study on patience. And we find that out of everybody on the planet willing to wait in the Department of Motor Vehicles is surveyed. In other words, the y axis is the number of people who leave, while the x axis are the ‘bins’ or ‘containers’ of peopl...
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Abnormal_stats
Key terms Independent Variable Dependent Variable Measures of Central Tendency Measures of Variation Histogram Null Hypothesis Alpha Level P-value Effect Sizes independent variable aka ‘x’ variable This is often considered the variable that influences, or causes, changes in the ‘y’ variable. Below in this faked graph, the independent va...
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Abnormal_schedule
Getting started Course Layout Read/watch some things, write some things. You will save these written bits of work somewhere that can be shared. Google docs is probably the easiest. Microsoft onedrive is another. ungrading and self reflections Rubrics and point chasing are harmful. Or at worst they don’t foster good thinking and education. I a...
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Research Methods Schedule
Getting started I created a separate document for getting started in this class, it covers some technical aspects as well as some perspective. So you should check that out first. See document at Getting Started Introduction In many ways the teaching of science makes it sound easy. In the physical sciences like chemistry and physics and biology t...
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Getting Started for all Classes
Getting started This document explains in quite a bit of detail the “how” to do this course. Notice the menu over on the left. I guess this is called “accordion style,” so if you hover or select an item the sub-items will reveal. If you haven’t read the syllabus, or at least skimmed the parts about getting a textbook, how you’ll be gr...
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