In the conclusion of PLOS ONE: Inflated Applicants: Attribution Errors in Performance Evaluation by Professionals there is a reference to, In Law Schools, Grades Go Up, Just Like That – NYTimes.com. That article is about law schools that change their grading to help their graduates get better jobs. For example, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, retroactively […]
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What Are We Teaching in Law School? That You Can’t Fool All the People But You Can Fool the Ones Without Resources?
April 16, 2014 by
Higher education: Is college worth it? | The Economist
April 10, 2014 by
Here is The Economist take on it. Higher education: Is college worth it? | The Economist. Compare this with The Atlantic Magazine’s Gung-Ho-All-The-Stats-Show-Everyone-Should-Go approach. If you search this blog for “Atlantic” you will see how undiscerning they are. That is very unfortunate for such a highly regarded magazine.
More on “Corporate Cash Alters University Curricula”
April 8, 2014 by
Corporate Cash Alters University Curricula. There were some replies to my comment. I replied to one and someone very thoughtfully replied to that and….. Anyway, here they all are. Anthony Bonefeste wrote, “Acedemic freedom” is all well and good. But charging six figures to mislead students into thinking that there is a career in Germanic Poetry […]
Corporations Join Up With Colleges to Design Curricula – WSJ.com
April 8, 2014 by
Corporations Join Up With Colleges to Design Curricula – WSJ.com. This reporting is excellent and important. I commented but this is a topic that I want to think about more. Here is my comment. “Good news? or, bad news? Here is the view from a former math professor who has been worried about higher education […]
Groucho on: “Colleges Increasing Spending on Sports Faster Than on Academics, Report Finds” – NYT.com
April 7, 2014 by
Colleges Increasing Spending on Sports Faster Than on Academics, Report Finds – NYTimes.com. GROUCHO (Dean Quincy Adams Wagstaff ): Have we got a stadium? FACULTY: Yes. GROUCHO: Have we got a college? FACULTY: Yes. GROUCHO: Well, we can’t support both. Tomorrow we start tearing down the college. —From Horse Feathers, 1932, starring the Marx Brothers […]
Content Deflation III – Does Wash. U. Physics Prof. Adopt It With Zeal? And Does the University Boast About It? Read This
April 3, 2014 by
This is from my story ATaleOutofSchool but it is self-contained. I think it is helpful in understanding how much “content deflation” has entered the academy as a marketing tool that caters to student “wants”, while leaving students on their own to acquire their “needs”. Of course, it is even worse that just leaving them on […]
Why Does Grade Inflation Work?
Don A. Moore, Samuel A. Swift, Zachariah S. Sharek and Francesca Gino, whose paper I cited in Grade Inflation Pays But So Does Rolling Back the Odometer – Or Overrating a Bond have a more recent paper, PLOS ONE: Inflated Applicants: Attribution Errors in Performance Evaluation by Professionals. There is a lot for to think about […]