I’m reading about the new proposed Federal Teacher Preparation Rules. (They look ok to me, so far.) In any case, I came across this. It is reminiscent of the program I wrote about here. (See Note below.) “…a teacher preparation program must provide high-quality teacher preparation in order to be eligible to award TEACH Grants. […]
Are You a College With a “Low-Performing” or “At-Risk” Teacher Preparation Program? Want a Grant For Programs with “High-Quality Teacher” Programs? No Problem.
December 16, 2014 by
Research Indicates Even Top Departments Calling A No-Go For a PhD, a Guess What? A PhD!
December 12, 2014 by
Here is a link to the paper. (I will make my point after quoting from the paper.) JEP (28,3) p. 205 – The Research Productivity of New PhDs in Economics: The Surprisingly High Non-success of the Successful. Here is an important conclusion quoted from the paper. “…At the majority of the departments ranked in the top […]
Teaching Effectiveness is NEGATIVELY Associated With Student Evaluations
November 28, 2014 by
That is a partial quote from an important new paper by Philip B. Stark and Richard Freishtat. Here is a more complete version of the quote. These experiments found that teaching effectiveness, as measured by subsequent performance and career success, is negatively associated with [student evaluations]. (from page 12) This paper is important – especially for parents […]
Prof. Teaches Stats But Doesn’t Seem to Have a Clue About the Most Fundamental Notion
July 6, 2014 by
(At a regional public university) This is from a “teacher evalaution” (of me) by a tenured professor who regularly taught statistics. First, here is a little background about the class. (Math now, then I will try to explain non-mathematically.) I was talking to the class about the sample mean. The previous day, I had showed them that […]
Ralph Had Trouble With Continuity – But Why?
July 1, 2014 by
Statistics Prof. Kevin Doesn’t Understand Basic Math, or Statistics
June 30, 2014 by
(Another story from the same regional state school – the math is in color) Prof. Kevin was a full professor. He was about 70, very nice and pleasant. I was teaching a graduate course (Intro to Complex Variables). He asked to sit in and he took notes. Early in the course I wrote something on the board in a […]
Not Being Good at Math – Should That Be a Bar to Getting a PhD in Math?
December 3, 2013 by
Professor Alfred Doesn’t Know What is Wrong with the Homework
October 15, 2013 by
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