teaching (jim o'connor)

Michael Perelman michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Tue Sep 14 09:55:47 PDT 1999


Jim, if you can change the lives of 1/3 of your students, or even make them think so for a moment, you rank as a great teacher!

Jim wrote:


> Every year, every quarter, every class (undergrad, not grad), the results
> were the
> same: 1/3 said "great course, you changed my life." 1/3 said "it had some
> interesting stuff." 1/3 said "Prof. O'C is a propagandist or a bore or
> incomprehensible, etc." These statistical results obtained, I repeat,
> independently of my own evaluation of my own work in a particular course
> during a particular year. I add that students were more polarized re: my
> courses than those of other profs.

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Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University michael at ecst.csuchico.edu Chico, CA 95929 530-898-5321 fax 530-898-5901



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