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Over the next few months, there will be anger, frustration, and the occasional fist-pumping, "Yes!" as this year's graduates send out résumés and students changing schools attempt to transfer credits. Their diplomas and transcripts, they will discover, often don't tell employers and deans what they need to know. As a result, professors often find students unprepared, while companies subject applicants to tests or hire only graduates of institutions they know well.
Fine-tuning college degrees to the job market - CSMonitor.com
Kristin Murphy for The Chronicle Norman L. Jones is chairman of the history department at Utah State U. and a state leader in a project developed by the Lumina Foundation to better articulate goals for student learning. He finds the grading grid, which has recently captivated many of his faculty colleagues in the history department here at Utah State University, entirely too rigid. The scoring guide maps out specific learning goals, giving detailed explanations of how a professor will judge a student's mastery of each. The jargony concept is the talk of his history department now, prompted by a new national project designed to
Refining the Recipe for a Degree, Ingredient by Ingredient - Government - The Chronicle of Higher Education
My first job as a professor was at an Ivy League university. The students were happy to be taught, and we, their teachers, were happy to be teaching them. Whatever portion of their time and energy was being eaten up by social commitments—which may have been huge, but about which I was ignorant—they seemed earnestly and unproblematically engaged with the academic experience. If I was naïve about this, they were gracious enough not to disabuse me.
Debating the Value of College in America : The New Yorker
WASHINGTON -- By any reasonable measure, George Plopper is a skilled and successful teacher. The associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute won awards for his teaching in 2000 and 2001 when he was still at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas (and in 1993 as a graduate student at Harvard University). As a result of his recognition at UNLV, Plopper found himself invited to a summer program in 2004 designed to improve the teaching of science on the undergraduate level.
News: Teaching Them How to Think - Inside Higher Ed
Standardized testing is one of the most polarizing topics in education policy. Policymakers have advocated for tests as an objective measure of both teacher and student performance. Teachers, though, largely despise the tests, the preparation for them, and the time it takes away from classroom instruction in the springtime. Photo Credit: Disney Proponents of the Common Core State Standards say relief is on the way: With new state standards will come new assessments in 2014-2015, aimed at providing teachers a more thorough report on their students’ progress that will ultimately help them drive instruction.
