Once again I am taking part in a “best practices” exercise…this one derived from the one I participated in earlier in the year. Back in the winter we came up with a rubric that could be used to score sample syllabi and this morning I read 20 Western Civ syllabi that a panel of raters…
Tag: Peer Review
The History Blogosphere
Today at the Center for History and New Media, Jeremy Boggs gave a presentation on the History Blogosphere (as of today). This blog entry is being written as he speaks, just to give you an idea of the potential immediacy of blogging. His presentation links are available on his blog. According to Jeremy, Cliopatria is…
Tests we don’t need, but probably ought to prepare for
The once and former president of Harvard, Derek Bok, published an interesting op ed piece in the Washington Post last week. Bok takes notice of the growing demands for assessment tests in higher education and neatly summarizes the reasons why they are a bad idea–at least in some disciplines. I’m all for assessment in disciplines…
History Course Podcasts (cont’d)
Several years ago I wrote an essay for Perspectives, the monthly newsletter of the American Historical Association, called Toward Transparency in Teaching. The essay focused largely on course portfolios and how they had become an important component of the scholarship of teaching and learning. But the real hook for the essay was the idea that…