exam review sessions?

Does anyone have a strategy for exam reviews that aren’t tedious (for both the leader and students) and that don’t devolve into spoon-feeding of the material (or lead to frustration among students if they don’t)?

all in the family.

Although I’ve been a largely absent contributor for a long while now, I wanted to let faithful readers know that last Friday the incestuous relationship between orgtheory and scatterplot moved beyond mere musings about siblinghood.

navigating graduate school as a (single) parent.

I’m a tremendously disorganized electronic file-keeper. While this has proven disastrous at times, it makes it fun when I stumble across gems as I’m searching for particular items. Today, while on the hunt for teaching tips I might have written, I  rediscovered an unrelated presentation I made at last year’s ASA meetings.  I thought it […]

nourish the socijournals wiki.

While there have been some recent updates to the wiki devoted to journal turn-around times and experiences, it’s been largely neglected of late. I thought a plug on scatterplot might reinvigorate it. Certainly some of our readers have had good, bad, or ugly experiences with a journal or two – particularly post-summer.

no hiring freezes here.

Given the depressing “What is your school doing?” post, I thought this would be a good place to get the word out. There will be at least one job in the employment bulletin job bank this fall. We’ve got a tenure-track, open rank, faculty position that we’ll be hiring for. The catch?

second best gmail lab ever.

(at least for people like me).

letter vetter.

Like most of you, I’m sure, I write a fair number of recommendation letters for students. The vast majority are for internal programs (usually study abroad) because such things abound at this university. However, I still write a number of letters for fellowships, summer programs, graduate schools, and so forth. Never ever have I been […]

this made my morning.

h/t: a struggling student of mine

in search of alternatives.

Because inclement weather is a given around these parts during the winter, I’m having to switch up the first day of my social inequality class a bit. Because I’ve found scatterbrains so helpful with course related questions before, I thought it would be a good idea to pose this one here as well.

lost love.

Years ago I read an article (or at least I think that I did) on research showing that individuals who had applied for acceptance at Harvard and Yale, but were denied admission and later earned their degrees from state schools, ended up making more than those who were accepted and actually graduated from those Ivy […]

you say potato, i say potato.

I was looking for the Journal of Applied Psychology‘s article that sparked the media frenzy today over the link between gender role orientations and salary when I noticed this slight difference between the BBC and many of the other news sources:

isn’t it ironic?

<<IMAGE REMOVED>> In case you’re not seeing a pattern, or the irony, there’s a close-up…

cakewrecks.

A friend directed me to this blog the other day. It’s a great place to take a fluff-break. Not that my taste is universal, but I adore the author’s commentary. Of course, sometimes she shares the stage and it’s just as good. Like here, where I laughed until I cried (appropriately, it appears, as that’s […]

it’s like pulling teeth.

I had an appointment to get my teeth cleaned this morning. Imagine my surprise when after checking in and updating my paperwork the receptionist handed me a $10 gas card “to thank me for showing up for my appointment today.” Apparently people are so scared of going to the dentist, the office is offering incentives […]

simple pleasures.

In my recent cross country trip with Omar there wasn’t one place – hotel or home – that we stayed without free wifi (including the “rustic a-frames” in middle of nowhere, Canada). I felt totally spoiled and bummed to think that on my next trip to the ASA meetings, at a much more posh hotel […]