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Word: peering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They used more than one instruction method--lectures, small-group work, diagrams, peer tutoring--so that kids who learn better with one strategy rather than another were not left behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Make A Better Student: Beyond The Gender Myths | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...right to be furious with Harvard College. We pay a staggering sum for what is supposed to be the best college education in the country. But the shortage of faculty and graduate-student section leaders has led the administration to look the other way on the practice of peer undergraduate teaching and grading--routinely in more quantitative disciplines such as computer science and sometimes even in the Core. How can we be getting our money's worth if our classmates are allowed to teach us and evaluate our work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hiring the Blind to Lead the Blind | 10/13/1998 | See Source »

...sense is that, if the facts are as you state in the specific case you cite, it is the exception rather than the rule in the role that course assistants play." This parsed statement only underscores the fact that there is no rule at Harvard College regarding peer undergraduate grading. Despite what the EPC may have intended, section hiring is essentially left to the discretion of course heads...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hiring the Blind to Lead the Blind | 10/13/1998 | See Source »

...deans cannot have it both ways. Peer undergraduate grading cannot be viewed as "wrong and inappropriate" on the one hand and be allowed to occur on the other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hiring the Blind to Lead the Blind | 10/13/1998 | See Source »

From this senior's perspective, the undergraduate experience will continue to be compromised as long as the practice of peer grading of subjective work continues. It Is time for the Faculty to legislate on this issue. Our education has suffered long enough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hiring the Blind to Lead the Blind | 10/13/1998 | See Source »

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