professorthread

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   by professorthread 5mo ago

   I'm seeing so many students succumb to plagiarism and use of genAI in assignments because they do not know that they aren't supposed to be any good, yet, and that professors don't expect them to be any good, yet. I try to tel
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   by professorthread 3y ago

   Right. I'm surprised at the comments here that seem to be missing the bigger picture. If ultra-conservative proto-Gilead Texas is going after tenure, then that must mean the values we associate with a progressive good society are being
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   by professorthread 3y ago

   The heuristic often repeated by folks in the profession is that you've got a top 5% of students who match your description of students who've proven they're good at learning, a bottom 5% who is entirely unprepared for univers
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   by professorthread 3y ago

   Some tenured professors slack on teaching, or were never that great at teaching to begin with. But tenure as an institution improves teaching quality. What professors teach is subject no less to academic freedom and the protections tenure p