This post is occasioned by Ben Schmidt’s wonderful tool for exploring gender differences on words used in student evaluations on RateMyProfessor. 1. RateMyProfessor is a
An academic job market story yesterday reminded me of the perils of interpreting lack of preparation with lack of worth. A philosophy candidate for a
As I prepare my tenure portfolio, I am catching up on entering in my student evaluation data and comments into my big spreadsheet. While I
It seems a requirement that any conversation about higher education in America must begin and end with costs and economic outcomes. Along the way, our
I’m putting some finishing touches on my syllabi here the night before classes start, and I thought I would share with my blog readers a
Welcome new readers! One of the themes of this blog is how I apply my perspective as a college professor or a cognitive psychologist to
At the beginning of every college class, I hand out a syllabus. What is the purpose of this document? What is in it? How do
There is a predictable uproar about the latest installment, in Forbes this time, of our national conversation entitled: Golly Aren’t Academics Living Lazy Leisurely Lives
As a parent and a human being, I am horrified and terrified by the events of last week in Newtown, Connecticut. I have hugged my
Like many interested in how we apply basic cognitive science to education, I was interested in the recent finding that many teachers still endorse many
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