User talk:Nesbit

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 Wikipedia 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. Rfrisbietalk 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. Rfrisbietalk 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. Rfrisbietalk 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, Rfrisbietalk 19:32, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

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

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

Hi Rfrisbie I see that you have been contributing to psychology articles on Wikipedia. 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. Rfrisbietalk 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. whicky1978talk 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. whicky1978talk 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 tags, and place  notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. HrafnTalkStalk 15:50, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Mahalanobis distance
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Basic science in psychology
I'm still confused over the appropriate subheadings for the sidebar on all the psychology pages. We need one or two umbrella terms that contains the main areas of psychology. Traditionally, psychologists have identified themselves as having a primarily research or applied focus. The problem I have with basic science/applied science dichotomy is that psychology is rarely pure and even the areas that have been identified as basic in the sidebar often have an applied focus. Even in the basic rodent work there is most often an intention to apply it to some human condition or to test a treatment. If there is no such intention, the researchers probably would not get ethical consent to run the research. The funding for research in social and developmental psychology is often driven towards applied outcomes. I'm just an undergraduate psychology student, I am out of my depth? Action potential discuss contribs 11:15, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Jose Fadul, an Educational Psychologist
Hi Nesbit, Our beloved former professor, Jose Fadul, was conferred a Ph.D. major in Educational Psychology by the University of the Philippines in 1999. His M.A. was in Educational Psychology as well. Perhaps you haven't read Fadul's articles on Resonant Teaching. His influence in the Philippines and in Southeast Asia on Educational Psychology cannot be denied. See http://josefadul.cgpublisher.com/ for instance. 119.111.86.72 (talk) 10:18, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Hi, Dr. John Nesbit. Would you mind if I remove the notability tag in Dr. Jose Fadul's page? He may not be as notable as you, but my students and I will be very unhappy if the Jose Fadul page gets deleted in Wikipedia. He has inspired us a lot in the past. (Please don't misunderstand me, I'm not provoking any edit war.) 122.3.216.132 (talk) 04:45, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

Dr. John Nesbit, I will be bold enough to delete the notability tag that you placed in the Jose Fadul page. 202.57.48.71 (talk) 01:30, 24 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Dr. John Nesbit! Dr. Jose Fadul is faring better than you! His researches in educational psychology is far better than yours. I've read them. 202.57.48.69 (talk) 09:28, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Jose Fadul is a known spammer, self-promoter, and sockpuppet. <3 Kleptosquirrel (talk) 02:04, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

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