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Monthly Archives: December 2012
Wherever You Go, There You Are
The APSA Teaching and Learning Conference is only six weeks away. It will be held sunny Long Beach, California, so not much chance this time of people getting trapped in their hotels because of a blizzard. At the conference I’ll … Continue reading
Posted in and Simulations, Chad Raymond, International Relations
Tagged Long Beach, MIT, prisoner's dilemma, Statecraft
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Education Now Reinforces Class Differences
Today’s New York Times has an excellent article on the obstacles that prevent lower-income students from getting a college education in the USA. There is also an accompanying video. If you’re like me, you probably encounter students like this every semester … Continue reading
Student Teaching
I’ve got one of my favorite subjects coming up next semester — comparative politics of Asia — and I’m going to experiment with MIT’s Visualizing Cultures (VC) curriculum. My goals are to introduce students to the scholarly interpretation of visual source … Continue reading
Posted in Chad Raymond, Comparative Politics, Getting Them to Read, Group Collaboration, Presentations, Projects, Skills, Visual Media
Tagged Asia, China, India, Japan, MIT, Visualizing Cultures
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Breaking down formative v. summative
Our university has been reviewing its academic regulations on assessment practice recently, as part of a wider project of reform in academic governance. A draft of the relevant document was circulated, containing many areas for development of existing practice, including … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Assessment, Simon Usherwood
Tagged formative, Regulations, summative
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Why Final Exams?
As I wade through stacks of essays, I am once again confronted by the question of “why give a final exam?” Final exams are assumed to accomplish two things: (1) provide one last testing environment that will help students transfer … Continue reading
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When Not Reading Is A Good Thing . . . And When It’s Bad
The light at the end of the tunnel is getting brighter — this is the last full week of classes this semester. While doing some preliminary grade calculations, I noticed something odd. As I’ve mentioned previously, I often structure my … Continue reading
Never mind the quality, feel the width
Back in the late 1960s there was a sitcom in the UK called “Never mind the quality, feel the width“: a quick trawl around YouTube will show why it’s poorly remembered. However ropey the central conceit might have been, it … Continue reading
