Does ‘Value Added’ Add Value?
By: Dr. Duncan Hsu on: Sat 04 of Nov, 2006 [07:38 UTC] (572 reads)

Measuring student learning does not necessarily answers the questions people want to know about the value of higher education. Tailored assessment serve less to help American to distinguish claims from a diploma mill to that of a genuine institution. Using Professional Service Provider like ETS to provide assessment services is plausible.

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on 'Rate My Professors: Hidden Camera Edition'
By: Dr. Duncan Hsu on: Thu 02 of Nov, 2006 [13:57 UTC] (1188 reads)

The success of rate-my-professor sites are the result of institutions' ignoring of their customer.

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Thoughts on government policy
By: Dr. Duncan Hsu on: Mon 30 of Oct, 2006 [14:30 UTC] (521 reads)

From time to time, policies are proposed with single mind and single purpose. In examining these policies, we need to keep the reality in prespective. Policy may looks good under presumed environment but may fail the reality tests.

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Higher Education Policy - First thought
By: Dr. Duncan Hsu on: Sun 01 of Oct, 2006 [14:12 UTC] (466 reads)

The high higher ed cost is the main concern of general public. It is, therefore, the place to start for the policy.

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Higher Education Policy - The environment
By: Dr. Duncan Hsu on: Thu 07 of Sep, 2006 [14:07 UTC] (460 reads)

In the US, federal government do not have direct authority over institutions. ...There are, however, oppotunities that governments can exploit to build accountability checks.

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Higher Education Policy - What's our future?
By: Dr. Duncan Hsu on: Thu 07 of Sep, 2006 [14:03 UTC] (450 reads)

Our citizen have to be able to look over the skin-deeped paper of certificate or diploma and valued more the deep-inside wisdom.

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Higher Education Policy - What's our future?
By: Dr. Duncan Hsu on: Thu 07 of Sep, 2006 [14:03 UTC] (431 reads)

Our citizen have to be able to look over the skin-deeped paper of certificate or diploma and valued more the deep-inside wisdom.

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Higher Education Policy - What do people want?
By: Dr. Duncan Hsu on: Thu 07 of Sep, 2006 [14:00 UTC] (1140 reads)

Are they really interested in the knowledge or they simply want the tickets to the job market?

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Higher Education Policy - Government
By: Dr. Duncan Hsu on: Wed 06 of Sep, 2006 [13:54 UTC] (437 reads)

... a good government need to listen and feel what people feel and guide them with incentives toward a forward looking future.

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on LPS middle school's 3 minutes inter-class break
By: Dr. Duncan Hsu on: Thu 31 of Aug, 2006 [16:51 UTC] (518 reads)

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Higher Education perspectives
By: Dr. Duncan Hsu on: Thu 31 of Aug, 2006 [13:49 UTC] (396 reads)

The goal of this article is to list/tabulate higher education related movements in recent years. Later articles will exam/analys these movement and give advices on higher ed policy.

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Show Them the Money
By: Dr. Duncan Hsu on: Fri 21 of Jul, 2006 [16:25 UTC] (632 reads)

A fact is good to know. But we have to careful about how we go about it. A not well thought advocacy can teach its citizen the wrong lesson and cause the fail of the society.

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Too Much Change, or Not Enough?
By: Dr. Duncan Hsu on: Wed 19 of Jul, 2006 [15:21 UTC] (533 reads)

Working on ... The current call for accountability of higher ed industry is people's voice that reject the current higher ed practice.

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New Model for Scholarly Publishing
By: System Administrator on: Fri 14 of Jul, 2006 [13:52 UTC] (491 reads)

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What's in the SAT Report?
By: Dr. Duncan Hsu on: Fri 14 of Jul, 2006 [13:17 UTC] (552 reads)

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Accountability Proposal Evolves
By: Dr. Duncan Hsu on: Thu 13 of Jul, 2006 [21:24 UTC] (561 reads)

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How to Judge For-Profits
By: Dr. Duncan Hsu on: Wed 12 of Jul, 2006 [15:14 UTC] (468 reads)

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New Arguments on Affirmative Action
By: Dr. Duncan Hsu on: Thu 29 of Jun, 2006 [15:58 UTC] (529 reads)

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on Parent Education
By: Dr. Duncan Hsu on: Thu 29 of Jun, 2006 [14:27 UTC] (541 reads)

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on Critical Thinking
By: Dr. Duncan Hsu on: Sun 25 of Jun, 2006 [12:02 UTC] (576 reads)

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Rioting in China Over Label on College Diplomas
By: Dr. Duncan Hsu on: Fri 23 of Jun, 2006 [13:05 UTC] (678 reads)

A call for quality check of collge diploma and a call for lower cost on higher education.

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on Higher Ed. competency-based assessment
By: Dr. Duncan Hsu on: Thu 22 of Jun, 2006 [19:23 UTC] (797 reads)

The clear the things be presented, the more the society will benifit. This idea is simply true. This is the same idea for those who calling for clear labeling on academic vs. nonacademic.

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Stop Chasing High-Tech Cheaters
By: Dr. Duncan Hsu on: Wed 14 of Jun, 2006 [13:03 UTC] (622 reads)

The real point is what is the goal of that class. ... The most important thing in education is the building of ethics and responsibilities ... Students' goal should be learning and not be getting high scores.

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on WCET Article Digest 05/17/06
By: Dr. Duncan Hsu on: Tue 13 of Jun, 2006 [13:37 UTC] (668 reads)

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Report Calls for Tighter Rules on State's For-Profit Colleges
By: Dr. Duncan Hsu on: Tue 23 of May, 2006 [14:38 UTC] (603 reads)

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