Tag Archives: Education
Visualizing the Economy
I will be teaching first year economics this fall for the first time in quite a number of years and I want to provide a more gripping visual presentation of what an economy is. I have the standard set of graphs illustrating the circular flow and the production possibilities frontier in order to provide the […]
Republican profs give out less egalitarian grades. So what?
A number of bloggers (for example Mark Perry, Catherine Rampell, Greg Mankiw) have picked up Bar and Zussman's recent paper on Partisan Grading. (Downloadable here, forthcoming here) Bar and Zussman take data on student grades, student SAT scores, and professor political affiliation, and find that: …student grades are linked to the political orientation of professors: […]
What’s the best way to scale grades?
It happens. An exam question is not clear, or more challenging than intended. The exam is marked by an over-zealous TA. Or perhaps the students haven't studied as hard as they should have. As a result, the students' grades are, in some sense, too low – they do not accurately convey the students' level of […]
Have universities reached the tipping point?
In 1983, a t-shirt cost about $10 or $20, an album $10 or $15, and undergraduate tuition at University of Waterloo cost $1313.74 annually for architecture, its most expensive undergraduate program. In 2011, a first year architecture student at University of Waterloo pays $7,697 in fees each year (and architecture is far from being University of Waterloo's most expensive program). […]
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