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- From: wkl1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Wing-Keong Loke the consummate chronic prevaricator)
- Subject: Re: What can we have for an educational system?
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 08:51:56 GMT
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- >There is no information about who will or who will not be even a competent
- >teacher which is available to anybody at the time of hiring. Even the
- >best universities cannot afford to use reasonable standards for prospective
- >schoolteachers, or they will turn out almost none. The schools of edcuation
- >do an evaluation, but what are they evaluating; do not ask the fox to watch
- >
- I for one, think you're right about Unis turning out little
- teachers if they had good standards of teaching--not when TA's are used to
- save money.
-
- > Even in universities,
- >the hiring decisions are largely made by the individual departments.
- >
- >I HAVE suggested that there be the possibility of evaluations by scholars.
- >The objections to this are massive.
- >--
- >Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
- >Phone: (317)494-6054
- >hrubin@snap.stat.purdue.edu (Internet, bitnet)
- >{purdue,pur-ee}!snap.stat!hrubin(UUCP)
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- Since in Unis the people in the depts are supposed to be scholars,
- why the need for outside scholars--if that's what you meant--when the
- people inside should be able to make a better judgment due to their
- insider knowledge of the workings of the dept concerned?
-
- Wing
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