It’s ironic, given it’s centrality, how little that’s sensible and defensible has been said about the relation between grading and assessment. To my mind, it’s
Author: Dan Ryan
I've been an Academic Program Director at MinervaProject.com, a professor at University of Toronto, University of Southern California, and Mills College teaching things like human centered design, computational thinking, modeling for policy sciences, and social theory. My current mission is to figure out how to reorganize higher education and exploit technology so that we can teach twice as many twice as well twice as easily.
Responding to Student Writing
In a piece called “ABOUT RESPONDING TO STUDENT WRITING,” Peter Elbow writes: The fact is there is no best way to respond to student writing.
Mind the Gap
Slatest passes along a story, “Military Wasn’t Told of Fort Hood Shooter’s E-Mails,” that appeared in today’s Wall Street Journal as “Agencies See Gaps in
Information Abhors a Vacuum?
Great essay today by Scott Simon on NPR’s Weekend Edition. He called it “The Bombastic Fog Engulfs Fort Hood.” Long story short: very quickly after
Notification on TV
Once you start thinking about notification, you see it everywhere. Just in the last few days, it’s figured centrally in episodes of PBS’s “Masterpiece Mystery:
Spellings’ Flawed Metaphor
An interesting article and even more interesting responses in Inside Higher Ed from a few years back: “The Flawed Metaphor of the Spellings Summit”
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