Two medical educators injected a fake teacher into an evaluate-your-teachers survey, in a medical school. Ivan Oransky, writing in MedPage Today, describes the study and the incident that motivated those two medical educators: Dear medical school faculty members, here’s a question that may come to mind as the new academic year gets underway: What if […]
Tag: Evaluation
Effect of 5th grade on 4th graders
Mike the Mad Biologist [that’s his name for himself] sees an apparent wee flaw in the way some educators [as they call themselves] evaluate things. M the MB writes: One of the supposed key innovations in educational ‘reform’ is the adoption of value added testing. Basically, students are tested at the start of the school […]
Semen Collection and Evaluation in Gorilla gorilla gorilla
A study of particular interest to scholars of semen collection and evaluation in Gorilla gorilla gorilla: “Semen Collection and Evaluation in Gorilla gorilla gorilla,” S.W.J. Seager, D.E. Wildt, N. Schaffer, and C.C. Platz, American Journal of Primatology, vol. 3, supp. 1, 1982, p. 13. [AIR 16:2]