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The annual NACUBO report on tuition discounts was covered in Inside Higher Ed back in April, including a figure showing historical rates. (... -
Introduction Stephen Jay Gould promoted the idea of non-overlaping magisteria , or ways of knowing the world that can be separated into mutu... -
(A parable for academic workers and those who direct their activities) by David W. Kammler, Professor Mathematics Department Southern Illino... -
I was going to entitle this piece "critical thinking squared" as a cute way to imply critical thinking about critical thinking, b...
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I just came across a 2007 article by Daniel T. Willingham " Critical Thinking: Why is it so hard to teach? " Critical thinking is ... -
Introduction Within the world of educational assessment, rubrics play a large role in the attempt to turn student learning into numbers. ... -
Inside Higher Ed today has a piece on " The Rise of Edupunk ." I didn't find much new in the article, except that perhaps mai... -
There was a question on the ASSESS email list about evaluating grade distributions for courses. It's an interesting topic, and I dug out... -
In 1981 , Reagan's Secretary of Education commissioned a report that became the 1983 A Nation at Risk: the Imperative for Educational Re...
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The student/faculty ratio, which represents on average how many students there are for each faculty member, is a common metric of educationa...
This is pretty amusing, and not, I think, accurate, at least about Shakespeare. Shakespeare's education, for instance, included languages (especially Latin), translation of materials from the classics into English and back again, familiarity with the Bible, history, etc. See: http://www.william-shakespeare.info/william-shakespeare-biography-childhood-and-education.htm
ReplyDeleteYes, I think creativity is harder than it looks. See my post a couple of days ago trying to document the creative process of solving a math optimization problem. I think there has to be a good bit of domain-specific knowledge in place in order to be effectively creative. But I'd also say we tend to focus on the first part of that at the expense of the second part.
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