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Category Archives: teaching evaluations
Grading on a Curve
Grades. Hot topic right now. And honestly, this is my least favorite time of year. I have to bite my tongue almost daily. “What’s my grade in the class?” Response I can’t give: What’s preventing you from figuring this out … Continue reading
Posted in bias, classroom management, end of semester, exam feedback, grading, teaching, teaching evaluations
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Let’s Talk About SETs
Let’s discuss student opinion forms, course evaluations, student evaluation of teaching forms, whatever term you use. Article after article year after year highlight how toxic they are. More recently the emphasis has been on how they differ according to instructor … Continue reading
Posted in classroom design, classroom management, classroom response systems, end of semester, exam feedback, extra credit projects, job search, minorities in mathematics, office hours, online homework systems, pre-tenure reviews, public awareness of mathematics, teaching, teaching evaluations, women in math
Tagged bias, course evaluations, tenure
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Submitting
Recently, I have been re-reading Michel Houellebecq’s 2015 novel Submission. It’s about a hedonistic literature professor who sleeps with his students, has the diet of a frat boy, and occasionally does “work” researching an obscure (at least, to me) 19th-century … Continue reading
Posted in bias, books, elections, math in the media, teaching evaluations, tenure, Uncategorized, work-life balance
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