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Kiernan Mathews
@faculty.bsky.social
Operating at institutional interstices to change a 19th century academy for a 21st century professoriate. I fail every day.
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It’s such an absurd system. We’ve all wasted countless hours saving PDFs and screenshots and uploading them with justifications that get rejected on technicalities. Daniel Kahneman calls it “sludge” (vs “nudge”) and it’s designed to make us give up.

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I only discovered this recently and thought wow, this guy really had IT… still though I had some “explaining” to do with my teenagers about the whole hostage-captor sexual attraction thing.

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Note that *larger student equity grade gaps* were found for faculty who are men, full professors, and instructors in Physical Sciences.

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For survey research nerds working on faculty inequities, at first you think, a survey of 216 STEM profs? Big whoop. But they’re linked to >31K student transcripts? And they found profs w/fixed mindsets = larger equity grade gaps in students? THIS IS A BIG WHOOP! 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

STEM Faculty Instructional Beliefs Regarding Assessment, Grading, and Diversity are Linked to Racial Equity Grade Gaps - Research in Higher Education
STEM Faculty Instructional Beliefs Regarding Assessment, Grading, and Diversity are Linked to Racial Equity Grade Gaps - Research in Higher Education

Studies indicate that racial disparities in STEM achievement or equity grade gaps are associated with faculty fixed mindset beliefs; however, whether specific instructional beliefs are linked to stude...

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Your campaign slogan is your last name and the last text you sent. Mathews: ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Yes--and the return of campus protests (e.g. anniversary of Oct. 7) will put higher ed as a "culture" issue back on the front page.

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I tried making a starter pack for the U.S. higher ed folks on here (after looking for one and not finding it myself). Includes researchers, journos, and just people who talk about higher ed stuff. Let me know who I missed! go.bsky.app/71aQ6gS

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Thank you, thank you, thank you for finding + sharing this. Made my night.

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post a non religious picture u think of as holy

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Kiernan Mathews
@faculty.bsky.social
Operating at institutional interstices to change a 19th century academy for a 21st century professoriate. I fail every day.
70 followers162 following103 posts