Visualizing Students' Skills Graphically. Feedback
How is a learning tracking tool actually implemented? A case study presented at the most recent French Acoustics Conference details the rollout of an online visualization tool—a “skills graph”—within a bachelor’s-to-master’s degree program ... and the reactions of faculty, students, and administrators.
Get the World's Statistics Talking in Class with Gapminder
Gapminder is a great tool for dynamically reading global statistics. But it can appear difficult to use by a beginner. Fortunately, the Gapminder team has prepared some products that can be used directly by teachers, including one in French.
Relationship to others and self-evaluation bias in the school environment [Thesis]
It's hard to measure the gap between what we think is true and what is true. This is even more pronounced when it comes to ourselves. This gap, between our self-assessment of our skills and our actual skills, is at the heart of the work presented in this article by Ludivine Jamain, who investigated the biases of students' self-assessment of their skills in French and Mathematics.
Living alone in the city [Thesis].
"How living alone, in France and in Quebec, confronts individuals with specific trials of solitude. The ways in which they cope with it depend on the relational resources to which each person has access, and which Camille Duthy's thesis aims to assess.
Rethinking our futures together - A new social contract for education
With more and more people educated and more and more knowledge available, education becomes the fruit of our relationships and interdependencies. In these new conditions, the abandonment of competitive individualism in education becomes almost a matter of course.