07-12-2008, 08:07 PM
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V.I.P.
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Pacific Northwest USA
Posts: 4,463
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Dance, etc.
Dear Suheir and Gang,
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I was thinking of this bit: "In 1973 a group of academics noticed that student ratings of teachers often seemed to depend more on personality than educational content.
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And vice versa. After working in a university for 7 years, I note that many teachers have the same issue when grading students, and are very subjective in that as well, often grading on how well the teacher is mimiced by the student, rather than on how well the student thinks for themselves. I also witnessed teacher giving higher grades to students who are masters at sucking up and to students who will have sex with them. this of course is not ALL teachers, but the number is enough to be noticed. One teacher in our department would tend to grade males higher than females and get really snippy with cute young things in her classes.
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They wanted to find out how far this effect could be stretched: what if you had an impressive, charismatic and witty lecturer, who knew nothing at all about the subject on which they were lecturing? Could plausibility alone make an audience feel satisfied that they had learned something, even if the information delivered was deliberately inconsistent, irrelevant, and even meaningless?"
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It seems to happen often enough that even people with teaching degrees in certain subjects know those subjects from an academic and protected point of view only, and nothing all about practical applications in the world beyond the academic setting.
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What if you had a self-confident teacher with an impressive-looking website with all manner of claims who turns out to be a disappointing performer and instructor?
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What IF??????............ Check out 10 websites and 9 of them will probably be nothing more than good marketing in the end....... If I seem skeptical and cynical, please bear in mind that I am that way with very good reason and lots of experience in being disappointed by impressive looking websites.
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