Study finds no impact on student success from having adjunct instructors
Most of the existing research on the employment of adjunct faculty and student success shows a negative relationship, not because adjuncts are bad teachers but because their working conditions prevent them from being as effective as they could be. But earlier this fall, a much-cited study disputed by some, showed the opposite: that students actually may learn more from adjunct faculty members -- at least at research universities that can afford to pay part-timers well and that may discourage tenure-track faculty members from focusing on teaching. Now, a preliminary study is mixing up the literature once again, concluding that employment of adjunct faculty has no impact on student success in community colleges. “Part-time faculty have no negative impact on student degree or certificate attainment,” reads the study, to be presented today at the Association for the Study of Higher Education annual conference, in St. Louis. Via email, Ehrenberg called Yu’s methodology “interesting.”
This Is Why You Will Lose Your Argument
So the Great Barrier Reef has not been listed as endangered by UNESCO. And same-sex marriage is high on the national agenda. Care to argue the case? Careful, there’s a minefield ahead. There is one thing that is poorly understood about arguing in the public arena. It is the reason that a strong case will often lose its momentum and that an obvious logical conclusion will be missed. It’s called the “point at issue” and describes what the argument is actually about. Finding The Point Before we can argue, we must actually agree on something: what we are arguing about. Let’s consider the Great Barrier Reef as an example. This misses the point completely. The point at issue is whether the reef meets the UNESCO criteria for listing as endangered. Not officially endangered and not at risk are two different points. As another example, imagine someone comments that locking up refugees is psychologically damaging to them. Focusing Our Thinking Is Not Easy That’s what I’m talking about.
80 colleges and universities announce plan for new application and new approach to preparing high school students | Inside Higher Ed
Eighty leading colleges and universities on Monday announced a plan to reverse a decades-long process by which colleges have -- largely through the Common Application -- made their applications increasingly similar. Further, the colleges and universities are creating a platform for new online portfolios for high school students. The idea is to encourage ninth graders begin thinking more deeply about what they are learning or accomplishing in high school, to create new ways for college admissions officers, community organizations and others to coach them, and to help them emerge in their senior years with a body of work that can be used to help identify appropriate colleges and apply to them. Organizers of the new effort hope it will minimize some of the disadvantages faced by high school students without access to well-staffed guidance offices or private counselors. The new group is called the Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success. A new application system. Stephen M. Aba G.
Liste non exhaustive des sites conspirationnistes et confusionnistes [VERSION...
Pour éviter de retrouver dans les TL de nos camarades de gauche des contenus en provenance de sites douteux, conspirationnistes, confusionnistes ou puants (sexistes, homophobes / LGBT-phobes, nationalistes / patriotes / chauvins etc.), pour couper court aux sempiternels « mais je ne savais pas », il apparaît utile de publier cette liste non exhaustive des sites, blogs, médias, comptes facebook et twitter animés par des conspirationnistes, des faux-nez d’extrême droite ou bien de sympathisants de tendances moisies en tous genres. Cette liste a été le fruit de plusieurs mois de recherche par des militants dévoués. Elle se veut être un outil pour préserver nos luttes de ces dérives. C’est une version largement mise à jour qui est proposée ici. N.B. : sauf exceptions, n’y figurent pas les sites ou médias clairement identifiés à l’extrême droite ou s’en revendiquant.
What Is College Worth?
If there is one thing most Americans have been able to agree on over the years, it is that getting an education, particularly a college education, is a key to human betterment and prosperity. The consensus dates back at least to 1636, when the legislature of the Massachusetts Bay Colony established Harvard College as America’s first institution of higher learning. It extended through the establishment of “land-grant colleges” during and after the Civil War, the passage of the G.I. Bill during the Second World War, the expansion of federal funding for higher education during the Great Society era, and President Obama’s efforts to make college more affordable. Already, the cost of higher education has become a big issue in the 2016 Presidential campaign. Three Democratic candidates—Hillary Clinton, Martin O’Malley, and Bernie Sanders—have offered plans to reform the student-loan program and make college more accessible. Why is this happening? So what’s the solution?
Comment faire dire tout ce qu'on veut à une étude cliniqueLe Pharmachien
As-tu l’impression que les études se contredisent constamment ? Que des nouvelles études aux résultats extraordinaires font mystérieusement apparition aux 30 secondes ? Qu’on peut toujours citer une étude qui va dans le sens de ce qu’on veut affirmer ? Que les compagnies manipulent les résultats des recherches ? Que des sites webs douteux ne citent que les conclusions des études qui font leur affaire ? Si oui, tu n’as pas tort… et c’est très facile à faire d’ailleurs. Voici comment faire dire tout ce que tu veux à une étude clinique. P.S. Si tu as aimé cet article, le Pharmachien te suggère également :
Technology won’t fix America’s neediest schools. It makes bad education worse.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan has pushed for more technology in classrooms. But computers aren’t the great equalizer that he suggests. (Brennan Linsley/AP) The following is an adapted excerpt from “GEEK HERESY: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology” by Kentaro Toyama. Reprinted with permission from PublicAffairs. “Technology is a game-changer in the field of education,” Education Secretary Arne Duncan once said, and there was a time when I would have agreed. But no matter how good the design, and despite rigorous tests of impact, I have never seen technology systematically overcome the socio-economic divides that exist in education. I didn’t always see things this way. My research team and I began by spending time in rural India’s government schools. It was a perfect opportunity for innovation: What if we plugged in multiple mice per computer, each with a corresponding cursor on screen? Students loved it, and formal experiments confirmed its effectiveness.
10 concepts scientifiques dont il faudrait arrêter d’abuser
Cliquez sur l’image Un article récent du blog/magazine techno io9 pose la question à différents scientifiques : « quels concepts sont les plus incompris ? » (en anglais). Les réponses sont intéressantes : 1. En effet, en dehors des maths, on ne prouve rien, on a un soutien statistique de plus en plus fort pour des modèles décrivant le monde de mieux en mieux. 2. Dans le language commun, une théorie c’est une supposition, one opinion. 3. Le problème est l’utilisation de concepts difficiles à comprendre, qui indiquent que le monde à un certain niveau est non déterministe, par toutes sortes de tendances mystiques. 4. Je vais citer une partie de son raisonnement, qui vaut le coup : The first question I often get when I talk about a behavior is whether it’s « genetic » or not, which is a misunderstanding because ALL traits, all the time, are the result of input from the genes and input from the environment. Oui ! 5. Un cliché des discussions science et société. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
