But, eventually, the piper gets paid. Unearned grades means unlearned material. I just read the following article, Correspondence Bias in Performance Evaluation: Why Grade Inflation Works by Don A. Moore, Samuel A. Swift, Zachariah S. Sharek and Francesca Gino of Carnegie Mellon University. http://www.cbdr.cmu.edu/papers/pdfs/cdr_608.pdf. After hypothesizing (and later demonstrating) that graduate schools don’t pay attention to any particular […]
PISA Results (Program for International Assessment)
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Adding “Links to Studies” Category
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New York Times Conflates Teaching with Marketing and Then Notes Students Could Do Better?
April 1, 2014 by
Here are links to two articles in today’s The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/01/education/using-the-arts-to-teach-how-to-prepare-for-climate-crisis.html?rref=us&module=Ribbon&version=context®ion=Header&action=click&contentCollection=U.S.&pgtype=article and http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/02/us/us-students-strong-at-problem-solving-but-trail-other-nations.html?ref=us (only online for now) The first article seems to be about how a professor, one of many, is using a creative new approach to teaching about climate change issues. I looked at ratemyprofessor.com for her. Here is what I found. She is tremendously […]
Krugman on “No Skills Gap” Part II
March 31, 2014 by
There was a reply to my comment on Paul Krugman’s Op-Ed. (See Krugman Relying on Flawed Data on “Skills Gap”) It asked an excellent question. Here is the comment and my reply. Comment: “Then, of course, we would see employers preferring those who received a degree when it still was an education. But we don’t […]
Krugman Relying on Flawed Data on “Skills Gap”
March 31, 2014 by
In today’s New York Times, Prof. Krugman has a column arguing that there is no “skills gap”. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/31/opinion/krugman-jobs-and-skills-and-zombies.html?ref=opinion&_r=0 I believe he is making a misake which I explained in a comment. “I am afraid that Prof. Krugman – whom I admire greatly – is making a fundamental mistake. He is, probably unknowingly, equating a “degree” […]
Underwriting Standards for Universities? Why Not?
March 25, 2014 by
Today’s Wall Street Journal has a good article on graduate student debt http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303949704579459803223202602 It gave me an idea that I posted as a comment. I haven’t carefully thought it through but here it is. (If you regularly read this blog, you can skip the third paragraph.) “…”…if we had some sort of underwriting standards…” …[the author […]
“Common Core” or “Missing Core”?
March 23, 2014 by
I posted this comment on today’s New York Times’ Op-Ed http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/23/opinion/sunday/a-common-core-for-all-of-us.html?ref=opinion&_r=0 “The discussion about the Common Core is interesting, both politically and intellectually. But without the “missing core”, all of these discussions and disagreements about the nature and goal of education, won’t matter. What is this “missing core”? Call it integrity, scrupples, whatever. But, until we, as […]
Do Princeton’s Administrators Pass Their Letters Through the “Office of Communications” Before Publication?
It seems like it from this, http://dailyprincetonian.com/opinion/2014/03/letter-from-the-editor-increasing-transparency-in-guest-submissions/. If so, why? and what changes happen to the letters? Does the Office just help adminstrators? Are the administrators encouraged to seek help from “public relations”? Is the “Office of Communications” just a marketing department? I don’t know but it seems worrisome. Here is my comment. ” This letter does a good […]