What happened to studying?
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What happened to studying?
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#3They just barely touch on the important part, which is whether or not students are achieving the same mastery of the subject matter. If professors are making courses too easy, that's the thing to fix. Butt-in-seat hours are only a symptom, and focusing on this (especially after acknowledging it's not the end goal!) is oddly Puritan.
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#4This part made me cringe:
"Marks herself points out that employers don’t generally care about the content of job applicants’ classes; they’re more interested in whether an applicant graduated, was able to meet deadlines, and work within a bureaucracy"
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#5College is simply another hoop to jump through for (an increasingly unlikely) shot at the middle class. The act of studying is useful for when you actually want to know something, but the commoditized studying colleges encourage of plowing hours into courses one cares very little about has very little purpose, and students know this. Just another notch on the "American education is an absurdity and a farce" stick.
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#7This part made me cringe: "Marks herself points out that employers don’t generally care about the content of job applicants’ classes; they’re more interested in whether an applicant graduated, was able to meet deadlines, and work within a bureaucracy"
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#8What do they consider studying though? Is paper writing counted as studying? Is online homework or problem sets counted as studying? Because I can tell you from personal experience that often those things take up much of my time, and tend to burn me out a bit so that when I have free time, I hang out with my friends and work on personal projects that I enjoy rather than studying the material I just did for homework. If I had more free time available, and less work to do, I would most likely read my book more thoroughly, especially in classes that I enjoy.
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#10This part made me cringe: "Marks herself points out that employers don’t generally care about the content of job applicants’ classes; they’re more interested in whether an applicant graduated, was able to meet deadlines, and work within a bureaucracy"
Robin Hanson has been on this subject for awhile: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/05/why-schools-test-often...
Also: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/06/school-attitudes.html