I got a link today about a business professor who allegedly put a student on blast via email. It was an interesting read and I’m ashamed to admit that I found it horrifying and oddly affirming. The affirmation comes from believing that it is important to have some lines and make some lines clear. While [...]
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Wow. Smacked Down.
No Comments Khalil on Feb 24th 2010
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Props
So twice in one week I’m giving a shoutout to Joe. I’ve been having this discussion in a few forums recently and it was good to see it reiterated in his video from a recent presentation. If you have a moment (or three minutes), go check out his video and give his blog a read. [...]
No Comments Khalil on Feb 24th 2010
So in my stats class, one of the quizzes I give presents a number of research scenarios. The student’s responsibility is to determine the appropriate statistical procedure they’d need to use to correctly solve the problem. The key to correctly answer the question is typically contained in the problem itself. More often than not, I [...]
No Comments Khalil on Dec 2nd 2009
And it is both more interesting and worth learning than calculus. Really.
No Comments Khalil on Jul 1st 2009
Filed under Academia,Fear,School,Teaching
The Best Email Ever
I spent much of yesterday compiling grades for my statistics students. Now I have one more class, my research methods course, to grade and extra credit from stats to add in before submitting final grades. I’m hoping to have that done by the end of the weekend, but we’ll see. They need to be done [...]
1 Comment Khalil on Jun 13th 2009
So its rare that I lament the passing of someone on teh internets, but I saw in the paper (not even on the web) that Randy Pausch died. I have to say, that’s a bummer. Not an unexpected bummer, as that tends to happen when one has a terminal illness, but his lecture and terminal [...]
No Comments Khalil on Jul 27th 2008