Is the blind spot on higher-ed accountability that big?
In all the kerfluffle over the senior theses of Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama, I hope I am not the only person asking the other question that I think is obvious and to the point: What do the theses tell us about the state of undergraduate education for Princeton and Wellesley students at the time? […]
Sometimes selfish evenings…
Sometimes selfish evenings,when you serve your own needs.When you serve your own needs and find some energy… Yes, that scans to “Some Enchanted Evening.” One of the risks of both blogging and being overly committed to various tasks is that those who would like you to address their current requests (many of which are overdue) […]
Wherein we become cranky about Bloom’s taxonomy and accidentally teach our sharp-tongued son some math
I will admit that I am one of people who grind their teeth when hearing the umpteenth time about Benjamin Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives in the context of planning instruction. In my experience, most people point to it as a source of heuristic advice: how do you design assignments that push students to do […]
In the zone-out facing multiple deadlines
Let me preface the remarks below with a simple fact of working in a huge university: There are hundreds of colleagues who are better read than I am, hundreds who work longer hours, hundreds who are more organized, hundreds who are wiser, hundreds who are more clever, hundreds who have published more, hundreds who have […]
Human tendencies to think in hierarchies
By Sherman Dorn on February 27, 2008
This is the follow-up to my earlier entry on Bloom’s taxonomy of educational objectives and our very human tendency to think in hierarchies, even where inappropriate or misleading. (The great chain of being or evolutionary ladder metaphors are other examples.) It’s frustrating to me as a teacher, but as an academic, it’s a fascinating phenomenon. […]
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