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Obesity and C-Section StatLit Materials
Obesity and C-Section StatLit Materials Some stuff from Thursday’s class. Here’s the facilitator’s notes as well, if you want to run this in your own class. It’s a sort of “case-study lite” approach. I gave the students the following in a packet: An article talking about research which showed people born by C-section are at Continue reading
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‘Adrift’ in Adulthood: Students Who Struggled in College Find Life Harsher After Graduation
‘Adrift’ in Adulthood: Students Who Struggled in College Find Life Harsher After Graduation From the article: Here is what they found: Graduates who scored in the bottom 20 percent on a test of critical thinking fared far more poorly on measures of employment and lifestyle when compared with those who scored in the top 20 Continue reading
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On Sex After Prostate Surgery, Confusing Data [Problems with Term Definition]
On Sex After Prostate Surgery, Confusing Data [Problems with Term Definition] A classic problem of term definition from the NYT (somewhat older article): A notable study in 2005 showed that a year after surgery, 97 percent of patients were able to achieve an erection adequate for intercourse. But last month, researchers from George Washington University Continue reading
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How Visa Predicts Divorce
How Visa Predicts Divorce From TDB: Hunch then looks for statistical correlations between the information that all of its users provide, revealing fascinating links between people’s seemingly unrelated preferences. For instance, Hunch has revealed that people who enjoy dancing are more apt to want to buy a Mac, that people who like The Count onSesame Continue reading
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Udacity and the future of online universities
Udacity and the future of online universities Felix Salmon on Sebastian Thrun, the open course runner extraordinaire who built the Stanford AI course: Thrun was eloquent on the subject of how he realized that he had been running “weeder” classes, designed to be tough and make students fail and make himself, the professor, look good. Continue reading
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Why the I Love Charts post is the most beautiful thing I’ve read today
Why the I Love Charts post is the most beautiful thing I’ve read today There’s so much to like in this post. It starts with nuanced exploration of feminism, terminology, and privilege, but ends as a reflection of the difficulties of staying a good person on the internet, especially when you run a site. Dealing Continue reading
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Active Learning Not Associated with Student Learning in a Random Sample of College Biology Courses
Active Learning Not Associated with Student Learning in a Random Sample of College Biology Courses I’ve been collecting these sorts research examples and making an effort to read them thoroughly, partially because I think we’ve become a bit too self-congratulatory on active learning, and partially because you learn more from these failures than yet another Continue reading
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the briefing room: Canadian university considers radical change
the briefing room: Canadian university considers radical change thebriefingroom: Find out why some students are opposed …That problem could be eliminated for future students at tiny Algoma University in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, which is debating switching to a block plan where students would be taught one course at a time, rather than five at Continue reading
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Secretary of Education Urges Colleges to Rein In Costs
Secretary of Education Urges Colleges to Rein In Costs It’s easy to believe that the student protests against tuition, at least at the state colleges, might at least stall the tumble of state appropriations. I think it’s unlikely. In fact, I think the net effect of the tuition protests will be a crackdown on college Continue reading
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Why teens are wired for risk
Why teens are wired for risk Kind of important for higher education to think about, no? Scientists typically refer to “the teenage brain” in 13- to 17-year-olds, but that doesn’t mean that college students are totally “adults” yet. In fact, research from the National Institutes of Health has shown, the prefrontal cortex, a region of Continue reading
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