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Re: [Phys-L] teaching credentials +- qualifications +- administration



You know what would REALLY tick them off? Evaluations on the basis of monthly observations of their teaching and the progress their students make on university mandated testing (tests constructed by peers and administrators).

On Oct 21, 2013, at 10:26 AM, brian whatcott wrote:

On 10/20/2013 6:36 PM, Marc "Zeke" Kossover wrote [in small part]:
.... many people think that they know what would make a person a great high school teacher though they have never taught and never hired someone to teach. They would probably be ticked off if I were to suggest how their universities should hire professors.

Zeke Kossover

Would they be as ticked off if you suggested that university professors be hired on the basis of a statistic like the quotient of number of papers published in refereed journals and number of cites in refereed journals with a suitable multiplier for the count accumulated in journals of the first water - Science, Nature, NEJM and the like, and a hugely bigger multiplier for Nobel awards in any field?

Brian Whatcott Altus OK
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