Society for College Science Teachers: A Reader’s Response to SCST November/December 2008 and the Author’s Response | NSTA

Society for College Science Teachers: A Reader’s Response to SCST November/December 2008 and the Author’s Response

Journal of College Science Teaching—May/June 2009

Thomas Lord in his column in the November/December issue of JCST claims that “The shift from academic merit to student consumerism is one of the two greatest reversals of direction in all the history of American Higher Education …” He goes on to say that this is driven by student evaluations of the faculty that punish any faculty for having high standards or require the students to work. This month’s SCST column contains a reader’s response to this argument. The author’s response is also included.

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