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Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 11:25:53 -0800 (PST)
From: Kenneth Finegold <kfinegold@ewu.edu>
One tip that I picked up from a former Teaching Assistant is to include in
the information I ask students to put on their index cards, "One interesting
thing about yourself." This gives each of them some self-selected element
of identity at the start, which helps me learn who they are. I also find
that answers to this open-ended question have some predictive value. For
example, students who write "I love politics" or "I like to read" seem
to do
better, on average, than students who list the number of tatoos they have or
students who can't think of anything interesting about themselves.
Kenneth Finegold
Associate Professor of Government
Eastern Washington University
MS-30
526 5th St.
Cheney, WA 99004-2431
Phone: (509) 359-2052
FAX: (509) 359-6049
Email: kfinegold@ewu.edu
"Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards."--Max Weber
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