UNC-Chapel Hill’s Embarrassing Problem
…(scroll down the linked page to get links to their studies). Those analysts stated that the initial screening test, called the SATA-Reading Vocabulary subtest, given to all 180 athletes and…
…(scroll down the linked page to get links to their studies). Those analysts stated that the initial screening test, called the SATA-Reading Vocabulary subtest, given to all 180 athletes and…
Among the successful attacks on President Bush’s education bill, already mauled by the education establishment and its pack of congressional Dobermans, is a provision to dump more federal money into…
…read about how greedy executives will bleed civilization dry unless the newly minted management graduate steps in and stifles the wrongdoing. Page 133 has a picture of a Walmart truck…
…it is imperative that inquiry and dialogue be kept free and open, this is increasingly not the case. In many departments, acknowledged communists outnumber registered Republicans. Speakers who dissent from…
…step to solve this issue is to improve skill assessment measurements. Historically, colleges relied on either standardized test scores or general placement exams to determine a student’s need for remediation….
…write a 3-5 page book review, take open-note quizzes in class, and do short in-class assignments, in addition to attending lectures and taking exams. Wake Tech’s class required a similar…
…they have demonstrated support for the ideals of open inquiry (or at least have not show animosity toward open inquiry). Would they support free speech and the open exchange of…
…forms of the same test (i.e., the “gain score”) represents how much students have learned in that program. Or does it? Everyone knows that any one test cannot be valid…
…slaves to publishers. What other industry receives its raw materials from its customers, gets those same customers to carry out the quality control of those materials, and then sells the…
…“Free to learn how to be free.”I am called to kindle flames if not fill vessels. I routinely sing the first verse of “Gaudeamus Igitur,” the international student song, in…