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From EPM

Hi Nesbit. Sorry about getting carried away with the psychology template! I guess I did let my enthusiasm get the best of me! I noticed that one of your interests was in educational psychology. So, as an attempt to channel my enthusiasm in a more appropriate manner, I thought that I would direct your attention to a paper that I found interesting and perhaps you will, too. It's on the newly emerging field of evolutionary educational psychology, and it's written by David C. Geary:

• Geary, D. C. (2005). Folk knowledge and academic learning. In B. J. Ellis & D. F. Bjorklund (Eds.), Origins of the social mind (pp. 493-519). New York: Guilford Publications.

I hope you find it interesting. When I get the opportunity, I hope to create a Misplaced Pages article on evolutionary educational psychology...and I promise not to add it to the psyche template!

Educational assessment category

Hi Nesbit,

I would like to discuss the Educational assessment category with you. I believe you are reversing the relationship between assessment and evaluation. These terms most often are taken as synymous or assessment as a subset of evaluation, not evaluation as a subset of assessment. I started a topic at Category talk:Educational assessment. Rfrisbie 17:32, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Vancouver

Hello. I am Arnold (aka Buchanan-Hermit) and I am writing to invite you to join the newly-formed WikiProject Vancouver. It was created really recently and it's in need of new members and those who are willing to spread the word.

I'd love to see you there. :) Thanks for your time. --Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK!. 03:15, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Education in media and culture (or similar words)

How about "Education as a genre"? See the discussion. Rfrisbie 18:21, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

How about "Education in popular culture"? See also Category:In popular culture. I made this suggestion on the discussion page. Rfrisbie 18:59, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing

Hi Nesbit,

I was somewhat surprised to notice the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing didn't have an article about them, so I started one. Please feel free to help expand it and link it to other relevant articles. P.S. Keep up the great work on the Educational psychology article! :-) Regards, Rfrisbie 19:32, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Here's an example of how I covered the Testing standards in another article. Rfrisbie 22:05, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Psychology wiki

Hi Nesbit - fyi below. Rfrisbie 17:21, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi Rfrisbie I see that you have been contributing to psychology articles on Misplaced Pages. Just to let you know that we are working on an academic psychology wiki for our professional community and their users. This can be found at: We would really welcome your input and ask you to join us. We already have over 7000 pages up. Orientation, help and community portal pages are available off of this link. Please pass the good news onto anyone you feel would be interested. We would particularly value your input as we need someone to help structure the Educational psychology section and help us get it underway properly.Lifeartist 15:57, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi Joe, thanks for the invite! :-) I'll pass this along to Nesbit, who is the resident wikiexpert on Educational psychology. Rfrisbie 17:21, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi there, just wanted to let you know we have a new Community Portal at the Psychology Wiki :) Mostly Zen 03:26, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Steam clock

Thanks for the nice work on steam clock.

While you are at it, the section order (flow of article) can be cleaned up a just a bit, as it still seems to be a bit jumpy (I wrote the base article, so it is strictly my fault). It is a bit difficult since the two separate mechanical trains (ascending and descending) have to be explained somewhat jointly, in order to clarify the path of individual balls, while retaining the disjoint nature of the two chain mechanisms. There are also some interesting queing theoretic issues, as the "bunching" of balls (as seen in the illustration) is quite common. I will be calling the corporate offices of the Steamworks Brewery on Monday to get the dates of electrification and reconversion to steam, which would then enable the newspaper articles to be obtained for the final "nail in the coffin" documentation. Thanks again, and best wishes, Leonard G. 23:26, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

efficacy (however)

Hi Nesbitt. No worries. To me, "self-efficacy is the belief (however accurate) that one has the power..." implies that the statement is true, even as the accuracy approaches perfection. This is the way that such sentences are understood in my field of mathematics. I wanted the emphasis to be on the fact that the accuracy is immaterial. You are right about the the dichotomy, though. How about "...the belief (irrespective of its accuracy) ..."? Robinh 14:50, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Nicholas Nicholson

• Is it really a hoax? While I don't doubt it in the least, could you provide other AfD voters with the evidence that led you to this conclusion? AdamBiswanger1 01:12, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Educational psychology references

What didyou have in mind by wikifiying the references in educational psychology. Did you want to make foot notes or end notes out of them? I want to help. whicky1978 17:24, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

OK, I know APA, and I've almost figured out foot note thing. Looking at featured articles is a good idea. See WP:REF and psychotherapy for examples. whicky1978 17:40, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I found an easier way than what psychotherapy does. Since your citations all seem to be in APA format, all somebody as to do is cut and paste the citations into <ref> </ref> tags, and place <references/> at the appropriate section.whicky1978 18:20, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Look at school counselor an see how I did the references. I made a footnote on the name that is insde the parentheses. I realize though that some of those references need some editing to conform to APA.whicky1978 15:14, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

I have done the footnoting, and I have posted comments on talk:educational psychology. I am putting all my comments related to the article on that page now.whicky1978 23:00, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Kingsley and the Black Legend

There are references, but not available to me at the moment - unless the blatant text of Westward Ho! itself qualifies. What are your concerns? Thanks.--Shtove 00:49, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

You're right, and I agree. Can't think of the reference. Delete at will.--Shtove 17:10, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

OOH

The OOH definition for "faster than average" is 18-26%. It is found on a different page.whicky1978

Psychologist

Key phrases

Education category for School Counselor

I see EVERY reason why School Counselors belong in the education category and no reason why it does not. Please do not revert the category without discussion and consensus. Doing so does not work well within wikipedia policy, especially the 3rr rule. Thank you, Kukini 19:06, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your direct response. I will look into the matter. In the meantime, we probably should stick to discussing these issues on the pages edit as well. Best, Kukini 19:25, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

I have looked into the use of the category and noted that there were no other professional educational disciplines listed in the category any more. Based on this, I have reverted myself in the School Counselor page. Just a thought...perhaps you and the others hard at work in there should consider putting a clear definition of what type of article does belong in the category. Much thanks, Kukini 19:42, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

No problem whatsoever. It ended up encouraging me to learn more about another portion of our great community. Thank you for your approach and the great work you do. Best, Kukini 04:40, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

User:Sue Rangell sock puppet

Is User:Sue Rangell your sock puppet account? KP Botany 07:06, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

She is absolutely not my sock puppet account. The user page of her account has content stolen from my user page bio. Thanks for informing me. Nesbit 16:33, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Interesting, because it was something else about her other than her user page that first made me think of you. But I can't really tell from your contributions list how and where I've interacted with you in the past. I've run into a handle of other pairs like this where one is like another, an awful lot, but simple identity theft of another Misplaced Pages editor had not occurred ot me!!! Wow. Sorry for you that this has happened as it's rather creepy, but glad you know what is going on now. KP Botany 17:10, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

We are absolutely NOT sock puppets. My apologies Nesbit for the cut and paste, and I have taken down the offending material, I won't get into how it happened, but I want you to know that I was unaware of it and not responsible. KP Botany, thanks for bringing this to my attention as well, I just wish you would have done it without all the negativity, and accusations. There is no sock puppetry or identity theft going on here. Sometimes shit happens. Thanx Sue Rangell 18:31, 18 March 2007 (UTC)