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Mario A Núñez

An Agenda for These Time - 0 views

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shared by Mario A Núñez on 18 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Best-Student Fetish
  • it is as if the ultimate dream of college admissions is to recruit a student body that is already so well educated that it hardly needs any instruction! Sitting in admissions committee meetings, it was all I could do not to ask,
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      Mario A Núñez on 18 Jul 09
       
      Los mejores estudiantes aprenden por sí mismos. Necesitan muy poca ayuda de los profesores.
  • "Hey, why don't we recruit bad students and see if we can actually teach them something?"
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  • That's why I've become a believer in the potential of learning outcomes assessment, which challenges the elitism of the Best-Student Fetish by asking us to articulate what we expect our students to learn--all of them, not just the high-achieving few--and then holds us accountable for helping them learn it
  • successful schools tend to stress cooperation among teachers over individual teaching brilliance, though cooperation itself enhances individual teaching.
Mario A Núñez

Teaching Professor - 0 views

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  • “[T]eachers will not likely improve their evaluations from students by giving higher grades and less course work.” (p. 526) Marsh and Roche actually found the courses that demand the least amounts of work receive lower ratings.
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Teaching Professor: The Disconnect Between Faculty Beliefs and Research on Student Ratings - 0 views

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  • These studies are giant. Centra considered data from 50,000 different courses. His overall conclusion: “[T]eachers will not likely improve their evaluations from students by giving higher grades and less course work.” (p. 526) Marsh and Roche actually found the courses that demand the least amounts of work receive lower ratings.
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Monitor on Psychology - Are our students learning? - 0 views

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  • "It's a lot of work for faculty, and there's no real reward," he explains. "Many administrators and even their colleagues see this not as research but as service, and service doesn't get the credit that research and excellence in teaching do."
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