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- Path: sparky!uunet!highlite!alan
- From: alan@highlite.uucp (Alan McConnell)
- Subject: Re: If you have to prepare a course, read this message
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.100559.11027@highlite.uucp>
- Keywords: course preperation, syllabus
- Organization: Gotham Communications Research
- References: <1992Jul14.021817.16355@eecs.nwu.edu> <54496@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 10:05:59 GMT
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- I am afraid that I too, with Professor Rubin, must "flame" the "syllabus-
- scheme" given in bovik@eecs.nwu.edu. There is, alas, no substitute for a
- _thorough_ knowledge of the subject matter one wishes to teach - and an
- empathy and sympathy for the difficulties likely to be encountered by the
- students on the way will be frosting on the cake.
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- But I wish to raise a question arising from Prof Rubin's post. Why is it
- that one class in, say, Trigonometry(or American History), will be a "good"
- class, with many A-deserving students, while the next term the class(also
- containing 35 students, say) will be miserable, with many flunking? Does
- not the Law of Large Numbers mandate pretty much an equal distribution of
- talents in the two classes? (this will, I hope, be a Red Flag to certain
- posters in this topic ;-) ).
- Alan McConnell
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