By Elizabeth Redden. A new report from the National Association for College Admission Counseling looks at the challenges high school counselors face in advising international students on their college choices and argues that counselors need more training to better address the needs of the growing pool of international students at U.S. More...
09 octobre 2017
Report on Challenges in Advising Foreign Students
Higher Education ‘Predominant Factor’ in Brexit Vote
By Elizabeth Redden. A statistical analysis of factors influencing voter preferences in the 2016 Brexit referendum found higher education to be “the predominant factor dividing the nation.” A new article published in the journal World Development estimated that an increase of about 3 percent in the number of adults accessing higher education in England and Wales could have reversed the results of the referendum, in which voters voted by a 51.9 to 48.1 percent margin in favor of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union. More...
Report on Foreign Students at U.S. High Schools
By Elizabeth Redden. A new report focuses attention on the growing pool of international students at American high schools -- many of whom hope to continue their education at American colleges. More...
A New Boycott Battle
By Elizabeth Redden. Civil rights groups argue “anti-Israel boycott” bill would violate First Amendment rights, while supporters say the bill is narrowly tailored and represents a minor amendment to current law. More...
Law Professors: ‘No Question’ DACA Is Legal
By Elizabeth Redden. About 100 immigration law professors signed a letter to President Trump arguing “that the executive branch has legal authority to implement” the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. More...
What Theory is Not
What Theory is Not
Robert I. Sutton; Barry M. Staw, Administrative Science Quarterly, 2015/12/24
Useful post from 1995 that every aspiring writer should read. It outlines five things theories are not (education writers should especially take note), offers a solid definition of a theory, and offers several arguments against theories. Here are the things theories are not:
- References are not theory - "authors need to explicate which concepts and causal arguments are adopted from cited sources...";
- Data are not theory - "observed patterns... rarely constitute causal explanations";
- Lists of variables or constructs are not theories - "a theory must also explain why lists of variables or constructs come about or why they are connected";
- Diagrams are not theory - "they rarely explain why the proposed connections will be observed";
- Hypotheses (or predictions) are not theory - they "are statements about what is expected to opccur, not why it is expected to occur."
So what is a theory. More...
Why No One Really Wants Creativity
Why No One Really Wants Creativity
Barry M. Straw, Foundations of Creativity, 2015/12/24
The media and popular press lead us to celebrate the innovative and creative, but few would want such people in their organization, much less to be one themselves, writes Barry M. Straw. More...
Complex Project Manager Competency Standards
Complex Project Manager Competency Standards
International Centre for Complex Project Manage ment (ICCPM), 2015/12/24
Scott Johnson dropped this 2012 post into my new OLDaily Facebook page (100 page PDF). More...
No, the Best Science Students Aren’t Becoming Financiers
No, the Best Science Students Aren’t Becoming Financiers
Nicole Torres, Harvard Business Review, 2015/12/22
Money. It's at the heart of so many endeavours. It grabs the attentions of many top graduates (though if this article is to be believed, not the very top graduates). It's also a system in jeopardy. This visualization of all the world's money has been making the rounds this week. More...
Examining value creation in a community of learning practice: Methodological reflections on story-telling and story-reading
Examining value creation in a community of learning practice: Methodological reflections on story-telling and story-reading
Filitsa Dingyloudi, Jan-Willem Strijbos, Seminar.Net, 2015/12/22
This paper documents an effort to measure value using Wenger, Trayner and De Laat's framework (60 page PDF). It's not straightforward, as the expectations of the investigators can play a significant role. More...
