Re: Peer review

From: nicolas cunjamalay <n.cunjamalay_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 21:52:45 +0400

I think there are students who also propagate a fake face of themselves.
Some tries to show that they are more intelligent when this is not the case
at all. Others are just robbers stealing ideas, projects, assignments, even
cheat on exams.


On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 9:47 PM, Shelly Hermia Bhujun <
shelly_hermia_at_hotmail.com> wrote:

> I agree, Academics Institutions tend to adopt a more theoretical
> approach rather than a practical one.
>
> Maybe this is why some Universities encourage students to go and apply for
> an internship or just include internship in the program. Well, i learnt
> more during two months at a company (not working...i was just an intern)
> than what they taught me at the University.
>
> Do you think it might be the reason why many graduates fail to get a job?
> Because yes, the market is not expecting young graduates to just sit and
> note stuffs down. Do you think its because we lack dynamic people? Maybe
> some cannot digest critic? Or maybe sitting,discussing stuff and giving
> feedback is not in our culture yet? Do you think its going to change?
>
> Well, those are just questions that i think connect a lot of things.
>
>
> ------------------------------
> From: shane_at_node.mu
> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 09:42:58 +0800
> Subject: Re: Peer review
> To: sm+mu_at_elandsys.com
> CC: tejas_at_pagooah.com; mauritius-internet-users_at_lists.elandnews.com
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 6:34 AM, S Moonesamy <sm+mu_at_elandsys.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Nirvan,
> At 12:06 27-04-2015, Tejas Pagooah (Nirvan) wrote:
>
> · If the graduates have the required competency or just being
> paper-based people – people who just know things in theory
> Academic intuitions tend to be more theory in teaching other than
> to be more practical, which the markets is actually expecting from us.
>
>
> I had an interesting conversation with a person at the conference about
> peer review. Peer review is a process where people verify each other's
> work. It is common outside Mauritius to see criticism about works of
> science or the arts. For example, you might read about what an informed
> person has to say about a movie before deciding whether to watch it or
> not. I'll provide another example; let's say that you tell me that the
> application works correctly with Microsoft Internet Explorer. I would ask
> other people to test the application to ensure that it works correctly.
> Paper-based people would not be able to review the application and provide
> criticism which may be useful to you.
>
>
> I wouldn't really consider testing in IE a proper peer review. A review of
> the application code however, would be a better example. It's (a somewhat)
> common practice in our industry to enforce code reviews on pull requests. A
> healthy project will review all code before it's merged in.
>
> Cheers,
> Shane
>
>
>
Received on Thu Apr 30 2015 - 17:52:57 PST