Fostering educated learners

Learning doesn’t stop when facts are installed. In reality, it does not start there. Learning starts with seeing reality, distinctions, and connections. Learning comprehends ideas.

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Ch16: The task of initiating a work of self-reformation

Ch17: Alma mater: A life of learning

Ch18: The idea of the university in scholarly literature

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Becoming the changer who changes

Tradition and revolution, preservation and transformation, are nurtured by ideas, deeply pondered, critically understood, and wisely implemented. Imbalance brings distortion. Utilitarianism brings neglect. Both fail.

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Informants

Ch14: The university as the ground promise in the future

Ch15: The university and the spread of revolutionary doctrines

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From Data to Wisdom to Truth

teasing out complex relations
passing through well-lived eyes
possibility approaches actuality

uncovering the big picture
wisdom gathered and earned weighs
and finally begins to see

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Informants

• path analysis and factor analysis
• data, wisdom, truth

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Taking Chances, Reducing Risk

chance happens
often hiding in significance

one errant recognition
do we take the risk?

seeing something here
not ours but theirs

conservatism has its place

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Informants

• risk of false significance (Type I error) and influencing inputs (covariance)
• improved results and decisions

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The Honor and Freedom of Understanding

proper means
fitting to curiosity
properly wondered

staying in wisdom's bounds
while dancing its center
freely

accuracy shows honor
creativity shows respect
uncovering the real

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Informants

• data analysis, inference, and target population
• type of data, nature of the question, and understanding the constructs

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Is absolute certainty arrogance (unless you're God)?

keeping in mind what I know
and don't know
interactions
and missing insights
and hidden inferences

humility and certainty hand in hand
search for truth

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Informants

• conclusions based on data and fair analysis
• conclusions keeping in mind amount of error and complexity of relations

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How to Decide this Particular Case

each situation requires
its own assurances
these people in
this particular place

more need for assurance brings
more possible error
weigh each on its merits

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Informants

• uniqueness and specificity in Action Research
• confidence and error tolerance in Linear Regression

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What do you do when reality has too much variation?

sometimes reality throws a curve-ball
standard analyses come up short
alternatives speak more carefully

either way
speak truth:

fix the tool
or
change the world


Informants

• Stats: exceptions in expected results
• Stats: alternative analysis and explanatory discussion

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Statistics Does Not Make Us Into Gods

arrogant or ignorant
all too human
futzing about in correlations
seeking causation

though contingent
still
partial perspective
brings intentional conclusions
level of certainty
of passion

Informants

• The need for explanation and causation
• Correlation as direction and magnitude of relationship

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