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Showing posts with label higher education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label higher education. Show all posts

Colorado Math Pathways Conference

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On Monday, I attended the Colorado Math Pathways Conference, a gathering of faculty and department chairs from Colorado's 2- and 4-year ...

A Madness to Our Methods

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How do I learn to teach people to use this stuff? When I was an undergraduate majoring in mathematics teaching, I got quite a bit of pra...

Monday Night at NCTM: Poster Session and Kenneth Zeichner's Plenary Address

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Braving the snow, Ryan Grover and I slogged our way via RTD from Snowy Boulder to Almost-as-Snowy Denver. We arrived in time for a poster ...

OpenComps: Validity and Causal Inference

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With the start of my comprehensive exams beginning in 12 days, my studying has hit the homestretch. Thankfully, my advisor has inspired some...

Scholarly Reading Strategies

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While I welcome greater diversity in higher education, I recognize graduate studies aren't for everybody. More specifically, I'd sug...

Nielsen's Reinventing Discovery (2011) in the Context of Education Research

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As a Ph.D. student I've taken my share of methods courses, giving me skills in everything from ethnography to ANOVA. But as important as...

Bonnie H. Litwiller, 1937-2012

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I got word tonight that my undergraduate advisor, Bonnie Litwiller, passed away a couple days ago at the age of 74 . As a freshman at UN...

The Research Works Act and the White House OSTP

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Imagine Company X proposed a law that said if they added value to a public highway -- such as by organizing volunteers to pick up trash on t...

A Week for Irony and Contradictions in Education

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The recent past has been wrought with irony (or at least contradictions) in all corners of education. Let's look at a list: Read Bruce...