dubiousjim

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by dubiousjim 14y ago
Thanks for your comment. I'm sorry that---despite using so many words---I didn't make myself understood. I didn't intend to argue that student evaluations can't or shouldn't be widely deployed. I was criticizing the sloppy, casual attitude
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by dubiousjim 14y ago
Expanding the final example: say I currently give 20 students As, 15 of them score me at 1.05, 5 of them are so happy to get As they score me at 1.65. I give my 80 other students Fs, and they score me at 1.0. Then on average my A students w
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by dubiousjim 14y ago
I know more about student evaluations at the university level than at the grade levels discussed in this article. Here is an excellent overview of some of that research: http://home.sprynet.com/~owl1/sef.htm The message one takes away fro
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by dubiousjim 14y ago
Pandoc is excellent. But it's also available for ikiwiki, since I did a quick port a year ago: < https://github.com/dubiousjim/pandoc-iki> . I don't claim it's (yet) as well-integrated as it is with gitit.
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by dubiousjim 14y ago
Syntax is Haselly; but capabilities are more like a mix of OCaml (reference cells, evaluation strict by default) and Scheme (dynamic typing, macros) and an algebraic language like Mathematica (expressions don't need to fully reduce). Here i
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Pure-lang: algebraic Haskell with dynamic typing(code.google.com)
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by dubiousjim 14y ago
Arch is excellent, and seems to have gained a lot of visibility/users in the past few years. And it's a great way to learn. But it is not for someone who says Ubuntu "has started releasing software a little closer to beta than I am comforta