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Make sure your prospective Ph.D. adviser is taking students!!!
Grad school applications are very different from applying to college. It is nearly always the case that in ecology and evolution, you only get admitted if there is an adviser who will take you. This is true even if there … Continue reading
Thoughts on easy and hard test questions for undergraduate students.
No this is not going to be a post on Bloom’s taxonomy of questions memorized or conceptual, useful as that is. Here I’m talking about the kinds of material students struggle with. If ever there was a clear book surely … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching, Undergraduates
Tagged Bloom's taxonomy, exams, hard ideas, numbers, Richard Dawkins, students, tests
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What not to do on your first day of class
Are you about to teach your first class of the semester? Is your syllabus ready? Have you picked just the right texts, balancing content with cost? Are you a few PowerPoints ahead? Have you thought about how this semester you … Continue reading
Posted in The joy of teaching
Tagged class, College, engagement, evaluations, exams, lecture, students, syllabus, teaching, university
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