Thursday, February 23, 2012

Popularity Contests, Teaching, and Learning

Craig Lambert, The Twilight of the Lecture, Harvard Magazine (March-April, 2012):
For his part, [Eric] Mazur has collected reams of data on his students’ results. (He says most scholars, even scientists, rely on anecdotal evidence instead.) End-of-semester course evaluations he dismisses as nothing more than “popularity contests” that ought to be abolished. “There is zero correlation between course evaluations and the amount learned,” he says. “Award-winning teachers with the highest evaluations can produce the same results as teachers who are getting fired.”


 
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The dynamic evidence page
Evidence marshaling software MarshalPlan
It's here: the law of evidence on Spindle Law. See also this post and this post.


1 comment:

Unknown said...

A legal blogger calls the physics professor's method of teaching "peer instruction": http://www.abajournal.com/legalrebels/article/what_a_physics_professor_can_teach_us_about_collaborating_with_clients

I think the course in fact investigation that Phil Segal and I involves mainly "active learning" and "peer instruction" -- and I believe and hope it does so without any loss of rigor.