Word: layzer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...writing essays or stories or poems that no instructor will get to grade and, above all, for thinking and talking about what it all means. That can be fixed, though it won't be easy. The first step will be to recognize that there's problem.CrimsonGabriel EberDAVID R. LAYZER '46 is currently Menzel professor of astrophysics and teaches two popular Core classes, Science A-18, "Space, Time and Motion," and Science A-22, "Chance, Necessity and Order...
...Layzer says he uses two discussion leaders--an undergraduate and a graduate student in the sciences or a postdoctoral fellow--in each section...
...turned out that the best undergraduates--and there have always been people in that category in these courses--are in many ways as competent as the senior discussion leaders, even discussion leaders with doctorates," says Layzer, adding that he has employed undergraduate teaching assistants' for 23 years...
Although both undergraduate and senior discussion leaders read students' papers Layzer says the undergraduate has no direct responsibility for determining students grades...
...They have no direct responsibility or even indirect responsibility," Layzer says, "You have to distinguish between responsibility and input...