Matt

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Husband. Dad. PhD. Writer. Box poker. Question asker. Higher Education Assessment & Evaluation & Student Success. Perennially disappointed as a Cubs & Bears fan. Politics, sports, analytics, assessment, ridiculousness. #boilerup #gocyclones he|him

Snow falling on Friley Hall at Iowa State
A quick resistance task: 😉 1. Google Gulf of Mexico. 2. “Gulf of America" will be at the head of Google’s answer. 3. Click on the three little dots to the right of “Gulf of America”. 4. Select "Send Feedback" 5. Click on "Gulf Of America" text. 6. Select "Inaccurate content". 7. Select "Incorrect" and type in whatever text you want such as "The correct name of this body of water is “Gulf of Mexico". The more reports to Google the merrier…. 😉
Two slices of freshly cut homemade bread
Two loaves of homemade bread
Book cover of Student Development in College: Theory, Research, and Practice by Nancy J Evans, Deanna S Forney, and Florence Guido-DiBrito
Book cover for Moo, a novel by Jane Smiley
Book cover of I Am America (and so can you) by Steven Colbert
Book cover of The Lives of Campus Custodians: Insights into Corporatization and Civic Disengagement in the Academy by Peter Magolda, Foreword by Jeffrey F. Milem Image is of a custodian walking down a hallway in a college academic building
Book cover of Day of the Cheetah by Dale Brown Image of a stylized war airplane flying diagonally from bottom left to upper right. Other text includes: The New York Times Bestseller Author of Flight of the Old Dog and Storming Heavan "Terriffic, authentic and gripping!" - New York Times
Book cover for A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn. Text is all stylized; no graphics are on the cover. Other text on the cover reads: The Classic National Bestseller More than four million copies sold "Historians may well view it as a step toward a coherent new version of American History." -Eric Foner, New York times Book Review Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Book cover of A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League by Ron Suskind. Image is of the face an African-American boy in profile. Other text on the image reads Revised and Updated Edition and lists Suskind as the author of The Price of Loyalty
Book cover of Critical Mass: The Dangerous Race for Superweapons in a Fragmenting World by William E. Burrows and Robert Windrem. Picture is of a map of the world with major cities marked with red pushpins. The words "Critical Mass" are superimposed over the map.
Book cover for The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, Steinbeck Centennial Edition. Image of three 1920s car driving past a farm house.
Book cover of Dune by Frank Herbert. Picture is of a dune with a city in the background and a setting sun. Other words on the picture are: Book one in the magnificent Dune Chronicles - the bestselling SF adventure of all time!
Book cover of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. Image of Henrietta Lacks standing against a building on a stylized magnification of cells. Additional text reads: Doctors took her cells without asking. Those cells never died. They launched a medical revolution and a multimillion-dollar industr. More than twenty years later, her children found out. There lives would never be the same.
Book cover of The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli. Picture is of a princely man looking at the portraitist with a hand on his hip.
Book cover for WEST OF KABUL, EAST OF NEW YORK An Afghan American Story by Tamim Ansary Picture of a man in a turban with a white bird on his head. Other text on the cover: WITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR "A book that steadies our skittering compass.... [It] sees things we cannot make out, and need to. The New York Times PICADOR
Book cover of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Picture of a triangle street sign, a triangle bordered in red with a red squirrel in it, with the words “Red Squirrels Drive Slowly” on it. Another person has placed the text “of course they do, their feet can’t reach the pedals” on the picture.
Actor Peter Barton holding an alien tool under the name of the TV show: The Powers of Matthew Star.
Screen capture of a tweet: Four Seasons Total Landscaping @TotalSeasons We'd like to announce that while we are not a hotel, we are a concept of a hotel. 5:12 AM * Sep 11, 2024 * 2.1M Views
National anthem ceremony for Austria vs. Netherlands at Berlin Olympic Stadium
White text on black background that reads: Without data you're just another person with an opinion.
Northern lights in green, pink, purple, and yellow tones.
Tweet from Joanna Maciejewska (@AuthorJMac): You know what the biggest problem with pushing all-things-AI is? Wrong direction. I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.
Of course academia is not a cult. Cults offer a sense of belonging. Tweet from @SethRudy 8:18 AM Nov 9, 2018
Picture of the eclipse seen through a layer of clouds.
Image of a 3" X 5" lined notecard. Two axes start at the (0,0) coordiante to go up and to the right. Vertical axis is labeled "How good you think you are" and the horizontal axis is labeled "How good you are". At the high level of "How good you think you are" and the least level of "How good you are" is a dot labeled Dunning-Kruger effect. At the high level of "How good you are" and a low level of "How good you think you are" is a dot labeled Imposter Syndrome.
Black text on a yellow background. Today I learned that if you flip a canoe over you can wear it as a hat. Because it is cap-sized.
Image of a chest xray with a Chicago Cubs logo under the viewer's right hand side of the chest where the heart is. Text above it reads "Had a chest X-Ray today. Doc said it's untreatable." Bottom left has a Cubs Memes logo.
WDW Hollywood Studios Rise of the Resistance room full of Storm Troopers
Three posts from X/Twitter. Post 1: Stefan Smith (@TheStefanSmith) The Princess of Wales is missing and the spare Prince is in exile and the King is treaging his cancer with herbs. If this were the 1300s France would be looking to invade. Post 2: Vee @ema_slivtz Ireland has the chance to do the funniest thing ever Post 3: K @imthespecialk Perhaps its the perfect time for a prophecy to fulfill [Image of a screen capture of Star Trek TNG with Data facing Picard discussing "the Irish Unification of 2024,"]
This week, I will be working with the 8th-grade students on their 4-year plans and getting them registered for their 9th-grade classes.
Text from Tinto (2023, pg 2): But while engagement matters, it proves to be the case that with whom the student engages may matter as much if not more. A recent study of second year retention by Eckles and Stradley (2011), for instance,found that the retention of a student’s friend had as great an effect on that student’s retention that any background variable. If a student’s friend leaves, the student is more likely to leave. Conversely, if a student’s friend stays, the student is morelikely to stay.
Black line drawings/text on white background. Top image is a normal curve, with the words "normal distribution" written underneath. Bottom image is a ghost with the words "paranormal distribution" underneath.
White text on black background. From X/Twitter used @TheLibraryLouse “Are you ok?” Oh my god no, but for the purposes of this conversation yes I’m fine.
“You’ve got to involve students actively, not just view them as objects of assessment, but as agents of assessment. This can be done in many ways. One is that you ask students systematically what they have learned. It’s a simple idea; it’s rarely done…..You find that students say some remarkable things.” Walt Haney, Professor of Education, Center for the Study of Testing, Evaluation and Educational Policy, Boston, USA.
Pumpkin carved with the words inferring causation from correlation
From Dangerours Woman® @dangerouswco Whatever you think you can't do, just know that there is someone who is confidently doing it wrong right now. They have no plans at doing it better either and people are paying them to do it. Please believe in your own excellence as much as they believe in their mediocrity.
The bookshelf in my work office - books, toys, clocks, Lego, etc. Standard bookshelf things.