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Examinations
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By overconvergent
Posted Mon May 31, 2004 at 05:35:23 PM PDT
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The quarter here at the University of Podunk has just ended, and I have given my students their final examination. This made me think about how to set examinations, and what they are supposed to measure, and how they're supposed to measure it.
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Review of five online calculus texts
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By kroth
Posted Tue Mar 09, 2004 at 01:23:32 PM PDT
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On Slashdot there is a review of five online text books for calculus. Here is the link.
Has anyone used an online text for a class? How did it go?
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INJECTING JEST INTO YOUR TEST
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Teaching
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By jvano
Posted Thu Feb 12, 2004 at 07:48:59 AM PDT
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From TOMORROW'S PROFESSOR(SM) LISTSERV, posted with permission.
Folks:
The posting below offers techniques that can decrease student anxiety before taking a test.
It is from Chapter 8, Injecting Jest Into Your Test, Reducing Anxiety Before the Test in
Humor as an Instructional Defibrillator: Evidence-Based Techniques in Teaching and Assessment by Ronald A. Berk. Published in 2002 by, Stylus Publishing, LLC 22883 Quiksilver Drive, Sterling, Virginia 20166. Copyright 2002 by Stylus Publishing, LLC. Reprinted with permission.
Regards,
Rick Reis
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An Incomplete Experience
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By Anonymous Hero
Posted Tue Feb 10, 2004 at 11:40:27 PM PDT
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This past semester was the first time I've given a students an incomplete for my course and my experience has left me wondering what other readers experiences were with incompletes
(both professor and student pov).
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The Joy of Teaching Evals
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By Anonymous Hero
from the mean people suck department
Posted Wed Jan 14, 2004 at 04:50:05 PM PDT
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Its getting to be that time of year again. Spring classes are about to start and you get a fresh new crop of students.
Of course this is also the time when you get back teaching evaluations from the students you had last semester.
And it seems no matter how much effort you put into your teaching there are always students who are not happy with how things went (and even if it was lack of work on their part, its always your teaching evals take the rap).
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Poll results: How often do you catch a student cheating?
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By Emil Volcheck
from the Poll department
Posted Wed Dec 31, 2003 at 03:15:55 PM PDT
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Poll results: How often do you catch a student cheating on an exam?
We received 21 votes in our latest poll which
asked "How often do you catch a student cheating on an exam?". Read on to see the results.
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Why I Won't Use Blackboard
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By Emil Volcheck
from the Frustration department
Posted Wed Dec 31, 2003 at 11:46:35 AM PDT
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This past Fall semester, I taught part-time at Loyola College in Maryland. Loyola College uses the on-line course management system
Blackboard, version 5. I used Blackboard for
my abstract algebra class and found it to be useful
but frustrating at times. A colleague who wishes
to remain anonymous gave me this list of reasons
not to use Blackboard.
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Designing an Exam Preparation
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By Emil Volcheck
from the Teaching department
Posted Tue Nov 18, 2003 at 11:28:44 PM PDT
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In his MAA FOCUS article
"Happy Abstract Algebra Courses",
John Fraleigh describes
a preparation that he gives his students
before each exam. I describe a variation
of this idea that allows greater flexibility
but still
achieves Fraleigh's goals.
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