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The Adjunct Project

February 27, 2012

Like many other PhDs and grad students, I’ve been teaching as an adjunct instructor for some time now.  Since 2007 …

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Happy Valentine’s Day to my Husband

February 14, 2012

Warning: Political Rant

February 13, 2012

I live in Arizona.  I realize that admitting this opens me to charges of bigotry and all sorts of nasty …

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Another resource for doctoral students

January 27, 2012

A site that focuses on resources and advice for doctoral students interviewed me about protoscholar and the results are posted …

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Learning Analytics

January 24, 2012

This week I am starting the Learning Analytics and Knowledge open course.  The course is offered by the Society for …

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A new semester, TWO new stats sections

January 19, 2012

A new semester starts this week, and with it not one but TWO new sections of my Intro Stats course. …

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Things you have to check out

January 19, 2012

This is so funny I almost peed my pants. And in the 5ish years I’ve had this blog I have …

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Who knew I was still a not-for-profit snob…..

January 16, 2012

I’ve been working for one of the big for-profit universities for the last 2 years.  On the one hand, I …

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The truth about academic administration

January 4, 2012

I used to say that just because everyone agreed to drive the bus off a cliff did NOT mean doing …

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Losing my “sucks at math” street cred

January 2, 2012

One of the ways I’ve tried to ease the fears of my incoming stats students has been to point out …

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Stats with Cats: The Domesticated Guide to Statistics, Models, Graphs, and Other Breeds of Data Analysis

Handbook of Educational Data Mining (Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Series)

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (Fiction)

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Humor

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