Monthly Archives: November 2010
What correlates with problem solving skill?
About a year ago, I started partitioning up my Calculus tests into three sections: Concepts, Mechanics, and Problem Solving. The point values for each are 25, 25, and 50 respectively. The Concepts items are intended to be ones where no … Continue reading
Filed under Calculus, Critical thinking, Education, Higher ed, Math, Peer instruction, Problem Solving, Teaching
Students respond to UCF cheating scandal
As a kind of rebuttal to the cheating scandal at the University of Central Florida, some students have posted this video that raises the issue of whether students were misled as to the source of their exam questions: I think … Continue reading
Filed under Academic honesty, Education, Higher ed, Life in academia, Teaching
Cheating at Central Florida
In case you haven’t heard, the University of Central Florida was recently rocked by a large-scale cheating scandal in a business management course. At one point, over 200 students in the course had turned themselves in to Prof. Richard Quinn … Continue reading
Filed under Academic honesty, Education, Higher ed, Teaching
Monday discussion thread: Business curricula
It’s been a packed last couple of weeks, leaving me picking up the pieces and trying to clear some of my grading backlog before the Thanksgiving break. Rather than leave the blog alone for another week, let’s try an open … Continue reading
Technology FAIL day
This morning as I was driving in to work, I got to thinking: Could I teach my courses without all the technology I use? As in, just me, my students, and a chalk/whiteboard with chalk/markers? As I pulled in to … Continue reading
Filed under Educational technology, Life in academia, Math, Profhacks, Teaching, Technology
This week in screencasting: Optimization-palooza
My calculus class hit optimization problems this week — or it might be better to say the class got hit by optimization problems. These are tough problems because of all their many moving parts, especially the fact that one of … Continue reading
Want a job? Major in what you enjoy.
Excellent blog post in the NY Times website this morning telling us that the choice of college major is not as important as we think. The author shares this research finding: A University of Texas at Austin professor, Daniel Hamermesh, … Continue reading
Filed under Education, Higher ed, Liberal arts, Student culture, Vocation
