A time portal journey to the pre-internet era
I inadvertently created my own archive of pre-internet academic life, and spent some of this weekend exploring it.
The year
How university endowments predict, and don’t predict, teaching loads
It’s typically exciting to find out that your hypothesis is wrong – and I was wrong! Here’s my back-of-the-metaphorical-envelope
Recommended reads #162
Would your cat eat your dead body? Now there’s peer-reviewed science to answer this question.
An exceptional obituary for
Why do some places have high teaching loads and others have low teaching loads? [poll]
Of course, institutions with more money have lower teaching loads. I have a specific hypothesis: Endowment size predicts teaching loads,
Reporting plagiarism and cheating to the university
Some folks are surprised to learn that cheating is extremely common. I mean, it’s the norm.
On the other
Preventing students from having copies of the exam
I know a lot of people who prevent copies of their exams from leaving their classrooms. I think this is
Recommended Reads #161
Teaching more by grading less, or differently
Here is a sublime profile of biologist Art Shapiro. And apparently, everybody I
Down with bar graphs
Some folks really hate pie charts, but I think for some purposes, they can communicate precisely the information we want
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They’re not even trying at NIH
I just saw this, and I think everybody needs to see this. Here it is:
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