First, I had to waste time on the intricacies of Morales’s anti-US paranoia, and now I have to waste more time on the following inane questionnaire:
It’s unbelievable that there are people who actually get paid for creating these inane surveys.
I suggest we put this whole thing to some use and discuss what we think about these “education goals.” I think my answers demonstrate that I’m a maximalist.
Why isn’t preparing students for advanced education (2nd and 3rd degrees) “Very Important”?
As a devil’s advocate for a moment, I think critical thinking is impossible w/o some degree of “tolerance and respect for different beliefs.” And I hope that when you do “Enhance … ” part, you also do tolerance part. 🙂 So that your students wouldn’t go around talking hateful and dangerous rubbish like that woman from a link RE Jews, Maidan and WW2.
– el
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“Why isn’t preparing students for advanced education (2nd and 3rd degrees) “Very Important”?”
– Most of our students don’t go on to grad school. I can’t orient my teaching towards a goal that almost none of the students find relevant.
“As a devil’s advocate for a moment, I think critical thinking is impossible w/o some degree of “tolerance and respect for different beliefs.”
– The greatest hurdle I have to overcome in my teaching is students’ conviction that “beliefs” are as valid as data. They are so fixated on the opinion that all beliefs are equally valid that I don’t think they need greater tolerance for them. I think they need the opposite.
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is this to set the parameters on a set of online course evaluations?
follow the guidelines really carefully or you might screw up your results! that looks like a lot of essentials to me (i mean not to me but in light of how restrictive those contraptions can be).
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No, it’s some gig out of LA that evaluates higher education using verbiage that is common to the worst stereotypes about California.
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“Encourage students to become agents of social change”
There must be something wrong with the form you’re showing since “vomit” is not one of the options.
Generally my answers would be pretty similar to yours. I can see a couple I’d tick one over to ‘somewhat important’ and maybe one I’d downgrade and the one about the great works of western civilization is basically irrelevant to what I do, but overall pretty close.
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“There must be something wrong with the form you’re showing since “vomit” is not one of the options.”
– It’s a long survey, and it’s all full of this kind of verbiage. It has its uses, though. For instance, it helped me realize that one of my educational goals is to help students see why such surveys are stupid.
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“one of my educational goals is to help students see why such surveys are stupid”
But something tells me that’s not one of the things it asks about (at least nor directly).
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My views on moral character. I would rather develop psychological perception and intellectual acuity. Not the reductionism of moral character.
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