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"How much data do you have?" is an inevitable question for program-level data analysis. For example, assessment reports that attem... -
The annual NACUBO report on tuition discounts was covered in Inside Higher Ed back in April, including a figure showing historical rates. (... -
I'm scheduled to give a talk on grade statistics on Monday 10/26, reviewing the work in the lead article of JAIE's edition on grades... -
(A parable for academic workers and those who direct their activities) by David W. Kammler, Professor Mathematics Department Southern Illino... -
I read Peter Sacks' Standardized Minds a few years ago when I was helping put together our general education assessment process . This...
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In the last article , I showed a numerical example of how to increase the accuracy of a test by splitting it in half and judging the sub-sco... -
Introduction Within the world of educational assessment, rubrics play a large role in the attempt to turn student learning into numbers. ... -
tl;dr Searched SACS reports for learning outcomes. Table of links, general observations, proposal to create a consortium to make public th...
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Introduction A few days ago , I listed problems with using rubric scores as data to understand learning. One of these problems is how to i... -
This post is the first of a series on student achievement. The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) summarizes graduation rates...
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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