Bloom's Sixth

Saundra McGuire urges faculty members not to judge students’ abilities too quickly or too harshly. She speaks from experience. As a chemistry professor at Cornell and Louisiana State universities, she used to make snap judgments about her students, separating them into achievers and non-achievers. Then she realized that those students who skipped class and didn’t study but then acted surprised at bad grades were “just being good scientists.” Really. (More about that shortly.) A…