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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...
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Introduction Stephen Jay Gould promoted the idea of non-overlaping magisteria , or ways of knowing the world that can be separated into mutu... -
The annual NACUBO report on tuition discounts was covered in Inside Higher Ed back in April, including a figure showing historical rates. (... -
(A parable for academic workers and those who direct their activities) by David W. Kammler, Professor Mathematics Department Southern Illino... -
I just came across a 2007 article by Daniel T. Willingham " Critical Thinking: Why is it so hard to teach? " Critical thinking is ... -
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... -
Introduction Within the world of educational assessment, rubrics play a large role in the attempt to turn student learning into numbers. ... -
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... -
In the spring we took the plunge and converted our end-of-term student evaluations from paper to electronic. We used the identical form othe...
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A friend gave me a desk calendar with daily puzzles. Usually the numerical ones are easy, but last Friday the one above came up, and I co...
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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