david wiles (rprtcard@aug.com)
Sun, 14 Mar 1999 08:40:14 -0500
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 08:40:14 -0500 From: david wiles <rprtcard@aug.com>
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PP's recent advice:
......
>Jump Start Your Brain is dangerous.
Do NOT read before bed. You will not sleep. It reads like a novel, so
no long academic polemics here. It is also very popular here as
evidenced in its ranking in the book club shelves. I did considerable
research into creativity and invention thru reading "the Creators", "The
Inventors" and the special issues of Discover Mag and Scientific
American on these related topics....
Perhaps the recent conversations on collaboration and authoring also lead
to the higher education meanings of "working to achieve credentials of high
worth" that include both Paul and the following message I received a few
days ago.
Mathew's note below is the three exchange follow up about his seeking my
help and advice to an Ed.D candidate about to take the comprehensives. It
is about the need to "stretch the brain" to new limits within postsecondary
settings.
Ifets and other nets drown in unrelenting froth between the relative
"toughness" of the credential programs, Ed.D, D.Ed., PhD as we prepare
ourselves for the ultimate M.D. confrontations of modern life.
Back to Education, the arenas of "research" into "statistics" examinations
are unparalleled; even more than "management" into "administration."
Central Florida wears the current rage of "leadership" quite proudly. The
now common cohort model generating pods in yearly succession( which, by the
way, I am most proud to be teaching one at the North Florida campus this
spring term. Luckily, it is preparation for the Comps next year.
The 21st Century may witness a proliferation of "added burden"
comprehensive exams rolling through your area of the globe. If so, note
within the USA the play of large scale state systems of multiple campus
(campusi?) variety have transformed the conventioanl programs of
educational administration and educational leadership.
The statistical application and demonstration of pragmatic knowledge of
the methodologist in us all may be just "atad"too urgent for my
professorial taste in general but the modern versions of program
"distancing" and "overloading" have ventured into new territory of
expectations for the graduate student.
All "take home" situations need to look hard at the following illustration
of pressures faced during the Spring l999 semester in one illustrative
graduate student's situation.
I am in a cohort group in the Ed. D. Educational
>Leadership program at Univ. of Central Fla., which means the campus is a
>1 hour 20 minute drive one-way from where I live. We are presently
>enrolled in the last two courses in the program. The pattern for the
>entire cohort program is to meet for one class Thursday afternoon, and
>the other Thursday evening. In addition to working full time as a high
>school administrator, and the work of taking two doctoral classes this
>term at UCF, we have the added burden of the stat comprehensive exam in
>the middle of this term.
The original message.
>To: rprtcard@aug.com
>Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 22:14:43 +0000
>X-Mailer: Juno 2.0.11
>From: Walter Bartholomew <barthowb@juno.com>
>
>Thank you for your e-mail. I apparently made an assumption about how
>much John Stewart might have told you about who I am. I am an assistant
>principal at a public performing arts high school in Polk County, and
>live at Winter Haven. I am in a cohort group in the Ed. D. Educational
>Leadership program at Univ. of Central Fla., which means the campus is a
>1 hour 20 minute drive one-way from where I live. We are presently
>enrolled in the last two courses in the program. The pattern for the
>entire cohort program is to meet for one class Thursday afternoon, and
>the other Thursday evening. In addition to working full time as a high
>school administrator, and the work of taking two doctoral classes this
>term at UCF, we have the added burden of the stat comprehensive exam in
>the middle of this term.
>
>After receiving your two e-mails on Monday afternoon and evening, I
>decided to make a special trip to the UCF Library to look up your
>references as well as locate some materials I needed for a project that
>was due Thursday. I had school duty Tuesday evening, but did make it to
>the Library after school on Wednesday. I had the two classes on
>Thursday, and Friday was the last day of public school before Spring
>Break. Fortunately, with Spring Break being next week I will have some
>time to review notes and gather materials for the comp. exam (which I
>pick up on Friday, 3/19, 8 am).
>
>Thank you for your interest. I hope to bring my thoughts together during
>the next several days. The area where I feel least confident is the hand
>calculation of Scheffe or Tukey based on cell means and data given in
>SPSS computer printouts provided with the exam question.
>
>The exam is due back to the Dean's office at UCF Monday, 3/22, 4:30 pm.
>which means I must have everything finished and printed by about 1:00 pm
>in order to give an appropriate amount of time to assemble the response
>and drive it to campus, allowing for traffic, find parking, etc. and "get
>it to the church on time."
>
>I would appreciate the opportunity to contact you with questions or for
>clarification next week and during the exam time. Is your e-mail
>available on the weekend?
>
>Thank you for your moral support, too.
>
>Walter Bartholomew.
>
Let's end by remebering Paul's sage advice. It might be on a somewhat
different tangent...but the intellectual warnings seem most appropriate...
Do NOT read before bed. You will not sleep. It reads like a novel, so
no long academic polemics here. It is also very popular here as
evidenced in its ranking in the book club shelves.
A really tough EdD program chugging alone without the present day jump ship
to PhD cluttering up the way? A mindblowing personal experience in
professional examination guise? Only Mathew Bartholomew knows but we can
infer.
David Wiles
ps the @msnbc.com is a small joke to insure their automatic response email
continues to function as a good thanker for your effort to
"contact/connect."
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