Study: Giving Students Chocolates Leads to Better Evaluations


	Study: Giving Students Chocolates Leads to Better Evaluations

jklugman

10-18-2007 10:31 AM

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teaching, one-way anova, anova, teaching-statistics, psychology, statistics

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10-18-2007 1:58 PM

dmegivern

Hmm, at my former university teaching job, giving students anything on evaluation day was against policy.

10-18-2007 5:12 PM

enbar

Personally, I like to hand out six-packs, or sometimes fat spleefers.

Just kidding!

10-18-2007 5:33 PM

kkcapricorn

YumYum, another chocolate study. I'm still looking to sign up for one.

10-20-2007 12:27 AM

BobbyRutan

Giving out A's always works best from what I could tell.

10-20-2007 3:57 AM

Bodark

The powers of chocolate are awesome.

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