David Perkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3613263 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Perkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Perkins |
| SIGNATURE | PERKINS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Fullerton |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9665-496X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1951 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Men, suicide, and family and interpersonal violence: A mixed methods exploratory study
Research has shown a link between gender, violence, and suicide. This relationship is complex, and few empirical studies have explored suicide and family and interpersonal violence perpetrated by men. Drawing on a coronial dataset of suicide cases and a mixed methods design, this study integrated a quantitative analysis of 155 suicide cases with a qualitative analysis of medico-legal reports from 32 cases. Findings showed different types and patt…
How effectively do drought indices capture health outcomes? An investigation from rural Australia
Drought is a global threat to public health. Increasingly, the impact of drought on mental health and wellbeing is being recognised. This paper investigates the relationship between drought and wellbeing to determine which drought indices most effectively capture wellbeing outcomes. A thorough understanding of the relationship between drought and wellbeing must consider the: (i) three aspects of drought (duration, frequency and magnitude); (ii) d…
Local TV News Viewer Reactions to Weathercasters Reporting the Local Impacts of Climate Change
Most Americans misperceive climate change as distant risk; TV weathercasters can help correct this misperception by reporting on the current local impacts of climate change. Some weathercasters, however, are concerned that such reporting may alienate skeptical viewers. The goal of this study was to develop a better understanding of how viewers respond to climate change information delivered by weathercasters. Interviews were conducted with 30 loc…
Unintentional Injury, Psychological Distress and Depressive Symptoms: Is There an Association for Rural Australians
Purpose: To investigate the association between unintentional injury and mental health in Australian rural communities. Methods: Using cross‐sectional baseline data for a longitudinal study from randomly selected adults in nonmetropolitan Australia, we fitted logistic regression models for the outcomes of domestic or public setting injury and injury in high‐risk settings, using prior depression and demographic factors. OR and 99% CI were reported…
Romanticism and Animal Rights
In England in the second half of the eighteenth century an unprecedented amount of writing urged kindness to animals. This theme was carried in many genres, from sermons to encyclopedias, from scientific works to literature for children, and in the poetry of Cowper, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Clare and others. Romanticism and Animal Rights discusses the arguments writers used, and the particular meanings of these arguments in a social and economic co…
An Evaluation of a Required Computer-Applications Course for Psychology Majors
This study describes and evaluates a psychology course specifically focused on computer skills for undergraduate psychology majors. Learning by 136 undergraduates was evaluated on a 57-item objective test. Mean posttest scores were significantly higher than the mean pretest scores in all classes across all topic areas
Visions of Presence in Modern American Poetry
Effects of Rapport, Intellectual Excitement, and Learning on Students' Perceived Ratings of College Instructors
In two experiments the effects of rapport, intellectual excitement, and learning on students' evaluations of teaching were investigated. College students (135 women, 56 men) were first given a written scenario of an instructor who was described as having either high or low rapport with his students and high or low in intellectual excitement and as someone from whom students learned a great deal or very little. Students were then asked to evaluate…
Is Literary History Possible
Is literary history possible?
"Is Literary History Possible? is a landmark study of the thinking underlying recent theory about literary history. Through analysis of particular literary histories--most of them contemporary works--Perkins elaborates on two fundamental problems that arise in the writing of literary history: the contradictions inherent in organizing, structuring, and presenting the subject; and the "always unsuccessful" attempt of literary histories to explain t…
Discursive Form versus the Past in Literary History
A ENERATION of younger scholars in the United States is returning to literary history. They are reconsidering its theory, and, as they write it, they are arguing for and providing new models of what it should be, and thus they are responding anew to the imperative, voiced at the very start of modern literary history by the Schlegel brothers, that history and theory should be one. I have followed these developments with the keenest interest and sy…
Effects of Grading Standards Information, Assigned Grade, and Grade Discrepancies on Students' Evaluations
The present study investigated the influence of information on grading standards and assigned grades on expected grades and students' ratings of instruction. Introductory psychology students ( n = 117) first viewed a videotaped lecture and completed an examination over the content. Using a 3 × 3 factorial design, students were randomly assigned to one of three conditions of information on instructors' grading (hard, fair, easy) and, based on thei…
Teaching Literature: What Is Needed Now
Hugh Kenner, Helen Vendler, Harry Levin, Nathan A. Scott, Jr., Barbara Johnson, J. Hillis Miller, and seven other scholars, critics, and metacritics at the forefront of intellectual developments in their fields offer provocative statements on the teaching of literature and on their own practices as teachers. The authors, differing widely in their areas of interest and their approaches to literature, stress an inherent relation between the classro…
Individual and Dyad-Assisted Instruction
A study was designed to gather preliminary information concerning the effectiveness of small-group (dyad) computer-assisted instruction. Children in Grades 3 to 6 completed 10 lessons designed to teach students the critical elements involved in solving mathematical word problems, i.e., identifying key words, writing equations, and selecting the appropriate mathematical operation. Four instructional conditions were evaluated: (1) one child using a…
Keats and the Silent Work of Imagination
A History of Modern Poetry: From the 1890s to the High Modernist Mode
A History of Modern Poetry: Modernism and After
Management for Health Service Administrators (Book)
Validity of Student Ratings for Two Affective Outcomes of Introductory Psychology
The correlation between student rating of instructor and affective outcomes of instruction was studied in two samples (n = 388 and n = 344) of Introductory Psychology students enrolled in 18 different classes. Correlations were calculated within each class, for students pooled across classes, and between-class means. In general, correlations were positive and of the same magnitude as correlations between student ratings of instructor and cognitiv…
Reliability and Validity Evidence for Scales Measuring Dimensions of Student Ratings of Instruction
In three studies, students in introductory psychology classes evaluated their instructor on a set of student-rating-of-instruction items. Based upon item content and the results of a component analysis of the item intercorrelations in each of the three samples, four scales were constructed. High internal consistency estimates of reliability and similarities in the scale intercorrelations were present over the three studies. The scale scores were …
The Arts and Cognition
The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination
Development and Construct Validation of a Set of Student Rating-of-Instruction Items
The development and implementation in a psychology department of a set of student rating-of-instruction items was discussed. The results of item descriptive statistics, correlational, and principal component analysis supported the construct validity of the items
Genteel Modernism
A History of Modern Poetry: From the 1890's to the High Modernist Mode
Romanticism and Animal Rights
In England in the second half of the eighteenth century an unprecedented amount of writing urged kindness to animals. This theme was carried in many genres, from sermons to encyclopedias, from scientific works to literature for children, and in the poetry of Cowper, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Clare and others. Romanticism and Animal Rights discusses the arguments writers used, and the particular meanings of these arguments in a social and economic co…
A Definition of Caricature and Caricature and Recognition
Teaching Literature: What Is Needed Now
Hugh Kenner, Helen Vendler, Harry Levin, Nathan A. Scott, Jr., Barbara Johnson, J. Hillis Miller, and seven other scholars, critics, and metacritics at the forefront of intellectual developments in their fields offer provocative statements on the teaching of literature and on their own practices as teachers. The authors, differing widely in their areas of interest and their approaches to literature, stress an inherent relation between the classro…
Men, suicide, and family and interpersonal violence: A mixed methods exploratory study
Research has shown a link between gender, violence, and suicide. This relationship is complex, and few empirical studies have explored suicide and family and interpersonal violence perpetrated by men. Drawing on a coronial dataset of suicide cases and a mixed methods design, this study integrated a quantitative analysis of 155 suicide cases with a qualitative analysis of medico-legal reports from 32 cases. Findings showed different types and patt…
Keats and the Silent Work of Imagination
Arnold and the Function of Literature
Johnson on Wit and Metaphysical Poetry
History of Old Broad Bay and Waldoboro
Hardy and the Poetry of Isolation
Acquisition under Mixed-Delay and Multiple-Delay Matching-to-Sample
The acquisition of delayed matching to sample in two groups of pigeons was examined when three delay values (2, 4, and 6 sec.) were mixed across trials and when each of the three delay values was correlated with one of three standard stimuli (i.e., multiple delays). Extended training resulted in the acquisition of matching by all multiple-delay Ss, while only one of three mixed-delay Ss showed comparable performance. The one S which acquired matc…
Children's metaphoric productions and preferences
The capacity to perceive similarity between apparently dissimilar domains is widely regarded as crucial to creative thought; yet little is known about the development of this ‘metaphoric’ skill. To assess children's capacities to effect appropriate ‘metaphoric links’, and to discriminate among metaphors of varying appropriateness, a task probing verbal metaphoric skill was designed. Subjects ranging in age from 4 to 19 years were required to comp…
Aspects of Student Discontent-1975
Additional informationNotes on contributorsDavid S. PerkinsDavid S. Perkins is a sophomore at Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
Aspects of Student Discontent--1975
A Definition of Caricature and Caricature and Recognition
A History of Modern Poetry: From the 1890's to the High Modernist Mode
Development and Construct Validation of a Set of Student Rating-of-Instruction Items
The development and implementation in a psychology department of a set of student rating-of-instruction items was discussed. The results of item descriptive statistics, correlational, and principal component analysis supported the construct validity of the items
Genteel Modernism
The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination
The Arts and Cognition
Validity of Student Ratings for Two Affective Outcomes of Introductory Psychology
The correlation between student rating of instructor and affective outcomes of instruction was studied in two samples (n = 388 and n = 344) of Introductory Psychology students enrolled in 18 different classes. Correlations were calculated within each class, for students pooled across classes, and between-class means. In general, correlations were positive and of the same magnitude as correlations between student ratings of instructor and cognitiv…
Reliability and Validity Evidence for Scales Measuring Dimensions of Student Ratings of Instruction
In three studies, students in introductory psychology classes evaluated their instructor on a set of student-rating-of-instruction items. Based upon item content and the results of a component analysis of the item intercorrelations in each of the three samples, four scales were constructed. High internal consistency estimates of reliability and similarities in the scale intercorrelations were present over the three studies. The scale scores were …
Management for Health Service Administrators (Book)
A History of Modern Poetry: From the 1890s to the High Modernist Mode
A History of Modern Poetry: Modernism and After
Individual and Dyad-Assisted Instruction
A study was designed to gather preliminary information concerning the effectiveness of small-group (dyad) computer-assisted instruction. Children in Grades 3 to 6 completed 10 lessons designed to teach students the critical elements involved in solving mathematical word problems, i.e., identifying key words, writing equations, and selecting the appropriate mathematical operation. Four instructional conditions were evaluated: (1) one child using a…
Keats and the Silent Work of Imagination
Teaching Literature: What Is Needed Now
Hugh Kenner, Helen Vendler, Harry Levin, Nathan A. Scott, Jr., Barbara Johnson, J. Hillis Miller, and seven other scholars, critics, and metacritics at the forefront of intellectual developments in their fields offer provocative statements on the teaching of literature and on their own practices as teachers. The authors, differing widely in their areas of interest and their approaches to literature, stress an inherent relation between the classro…
Effects of Grading Standards Information, Assigned Grade, and Grade Discrepancies on Students' Evaluations
The present study investigated the influence of information on grading standards and assigned grades on expected grades and students' ratings of instruction. Introductory psychology students ( n = 117) first viewed a videotaped lecture and completed an examination over the content. Using a 3 × 3 factorial design, students were randomly assigned to one of three conditions of information on instructors' grading (hard, fair, easy) and, based on thei…
Discursive Form versus the Past in Literary History
A ENERATION of younger scholars in the United States is returning to literary history. They are reconsidering its theory, and, as they write it, they are arguing for and providing new models of what it should be, and thus they are responding anew to the imperative, voiced at the very start of modern literary history by the Schlegel brothers, that history and theory should be one. I have followed these developments with the keenest interest and sy…
Is literary history possible?
"Is Literary History Possible? is a landmark study of the thinking underlying recent theory about literary history. Through analysis of particular literary histories--most of them contemporary works--Perkins elaborates on two fundamental problems that arise in the writing of literary history: the contradictions inherent in organizing, structuring, and presenting the subject; and the "always unsuccessful" attempt of literary histories to explain t…
Psychology (19 works) · Art (14 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Literature (10 works) · Mathematics education (10 works) · Poetry (7 works) · History (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Poetry Analysis and Criticism (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works)