If we’re worried that chacha will create cheaters, I’m worried that we’re asking students the wrong questions. Or more to the point, let’s ask questions that require students to apply knowledge. My post yesterday bordered on whining, but it felt good to express my frustration about students’ perception of the grading process. …
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Chacha ch-ch-cheating?
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The unbearable collective whining of the helicoptered generation
http://www.webbmedia.net/2008/09/12/the-unbearable-collective-whining-of-the-helicoptered-generation/I could have written parts of this article from a couple of years ago, which highlights the tactics of grade-grubbing students. When I was an undergraduate student, I bothered a professor or two about a grade, although now that I think about it, only one that I can remember and to be completely fair about it, the reason I negotiated my grade was because his class was a joke. …
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Crowdsourcing: intensifying a “culture of assessment”
http://www.webbmedia.net/2008/09/07/crowdsourcing-intensifying-a-culture-of-assessment/I understand why the call to create a “culture of assessment” has spread like wildfire in the title of workshops and in the rhetoric of the outcomes assessment movement. Just look here, and here, and here. I understand the concept is originating in the need for assessment in the process of considering the effectiveness of any assignments, courses, programs, and so on. …
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http://educationinnovation.typepad.com/my_weblogCrowdsourcing Education? Crowdsourcing: intensifying a “culture of assessment” when crowdsourcing comes to campus
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http://mcmorgan.org/blog/?p=413Webb’s Media » Blog Archive » The 21st century professor
