3+ Quick- Birthday, (grading) scale matters, exposing climate fraud, debunking handbook

These aren’t brand new items, as they’re things I came across awhile ago and am just getting around to posting now. In addition, I realized that the anniversary of this blog just passed. My first post was published January 12, 2008. As I look back at my first posts, it’s clear that I’ve come a [...]

3 Quick- Subjectives, grading stinks, and modeling with Kelly O’Shea

Fairly often I find things online that I think are either terribly interesting, awesome, or thought-provoking, but don’t have either the time or the will or write anything in depth about how or why they’re interesting, awesome, or thought-provoking. I’d still like to share these items, so I’ve decided to make the 3 Quick a [...]

3 Quick: Engineering, For-profit schools, CIPA

Three quick items today:

Uno

I’ve been thinking about engineering in schools and student (& teacher) perceptions of engineering as a discipline and skill set.

My take: It’s misunderstood as being dorky, nerdy, science-y. Educators (& politicians) sell engineering as a great profession that will save America- but then don’t do much to actually let [...]