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"I have been afraid to really speak my mind on this issue because I donât want to completely enrage the textbook publishers. They do send me free books sometimes. Oh well, first what is the chance they will read this? Second, I already have tons of books and there is always wikipedia."
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Excerpts from a presentation on how to give better group meeting presentations, and a link to the original slides in PDF format.
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"Ideally, during their time as a physics major, students will have their lab work evaluated in different ways both within a particular course and throughout the curriculum so that they can acquire and refine a variety of skills. I came up with a list of ten evaluation methods that I have seen employed, and I jotted down a few of the benefits and drawbacks that come to mind for each of these approaches."
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