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Professors and the Students Who Grade Them - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    The use of student evaluations of their professors. 
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Cognitive advantages of chewing gum. Now you see th... [Appetite. 2011] - PubMed - NCBI - 1 views

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    Study suggests that chewing gum immediately before taking a test can improve performance.
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Interactive Blooms - 2 views

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    A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing based on a r evision of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives*
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Value Rubrics - 3 views

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    You need to log into this site with your email address, but it provides a range of well thought out rubrics that are part of the VALUE project. Teams of faculty and other academic and student affairs professionals engaged in an iterative process over eighteen months where they gathered, analyzed, synthesized, and then drafted institutional level rubrics. Organized by the AAC&U (American Association of Colleges and Universities)
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globeandmail.com: Professor makes his mark, but it costs him his job - 4 views

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    Professor fired for "new teaching methods"
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Teaching Goals Inventory - 0 views

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    Big tool for my work with faculty and TAs
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Carnegie Foundation Creates New 'Owner's Manual' for Doctoral Programs - Faculty - The ... - 0 views

  • Take, for example, the concept of apprenticeship, to which the Carnegie researchers devote an entire chapter. The faculty-master and student-apprentice relationship as the signature pedagogical structure of doctoral education dates back to the university's medieval roots. But, the Carnegie authors say, it's time that model was updated.
  • The study recommends that doctoral programs adopt new structures that allow students to have several intellectual mentors and come to think of mentorship as less an accident of interpersonal chemistry and as more a set of techniques that can be learned, assessed, and rewarded.
  • Arizona State University that awards an annual $5,000 cash prize to an "outstanding doctoral mentor" or another at the mathematics department of the University of Southern California that places new graduate students in "mentoring triplets" with both a faculty mentor and a more experienced graduate student.
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