Does ratemyprofessor.com really rate my professor?
Otto, James, Douglas A. Sanford Jr, and Douglas N. Ross. 2008. “Does Ratemyprofessor.com Really Rate My Professor?” Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 33 (4): 355–68. doi:10.1080/02602930701293405.
RateMyProfessors.com offers biased evaluations
Legg, Angela M., and Janie H. Wilson. 2012. “RateMyProfessors.com Offers Biased Evaluations.” Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 37 (1): 89–97. doi:10.1080/02602938.2010.507299.
The opportunities are boundless,
Wearable are something that I think are huge for the future. This article does an excellent job in showing what some of the features that can be sued with them are. It goes into the health industry and analyzes some of the pros and cons that come with wearables. This will help me in evaluating wearable technology in the more general term other than physical fitness.
“My mission in creating this wearable was to come up with a device that would be fashionable and fun for children while allowing their parents to keep a pulse on their safety while they are apart. The Paxie band also tracks activity to encourage healthy and active lifestyles.”
Not only can wearables be used to tracking fitness and encouraging physical activity, parents can use them to help monitor where their kid is and making sure that are safe and out of harms way. However, making sure that the kids keep these devices on is an obstacle that the parents will have to hurdle.
Osuna, C., Crux-Castro, L., & Sanz-Menedez, L. (2011). Overturning some assumptions about the effects ofevaluation systems on publication performance.Scientometrics, 86, 575–592
evaluation systems and publication performance
One potential use: get-ting students to create a multilayered re-cord of their thinking while attempting to solve math problems.
Is the only reason we persist with journals and their articles is because they provide a convenient means to weigh the pig?
we promote the lifecycle approach to exhibition evaluation because we know that when evaluation procedures are built into an exhibition’s lifecycle
RK&A types of eval: front-end evaluation (after concept-development but before design develops), formative evaluation (evaluating prototypes), remedial evaluation (post-installation/troubleshooting), summative evaluation (at end of everything)
Mine are truthful and distinct, as both the art and its practice prove when they have been thoroughly investigated. This is the first, the mid-dle, and the final support of my argument. I do not make evil use of the testimonies of men who can lie, but I establish my argument by the truth-fulness of unwavering, natural usage, the usage, I repeat, which I have been following for so many years with the greatest effort through daily practice and by experience in the subject.
Ramus' point.
But the writings of these scholars reveal that while they indeed collected a lot of material, they did not evaluate it sufficiently, for in some places I look in vain for a syllogism. And they did not arrange it in a sufficiently fitting order, for else-where I find a lack of method. I confidently state that I have truly judged and correctly organized this same material in my teachings.
The difference between Ramus and others.