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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 14:52:38 -0600
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- From: mlove@UX1.CSO.UIUC.EDU
- Subject: Re: Large lecture sections
- Comments: To: History <HISTORY@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu>
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- >We would like to initiate some large (140 students) lecture sections in World
- >Civilization. I'd appreciate having advice about how other History departments
- >manage this. Do you have small discussion groups, for example? What kind of
- >testing to ue use? Thanks for your help.
- >Donna J. Spindel
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- Donna,
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- We have lectures up to 600 or so. We then have discussion sections of 25,
- in our case taught by teaching assistants. The tests are usually short
- answer and essay and are graded by the section TAs but created by the
- instructor (sometimes in consultation with the TAs).
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- Sharon D. Michalove
- Assistant to the Chair for Undergraduate Affairs
- Department of History, UIUC
- 309 Gregory Hall, 810 South Wright Street
- Urbana, IL 61801
- 217-333-4145
- mlove@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
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