Author: Dartmouth College. Senior CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The Report on Undergraduate Education of the Dartmouth College Senior Committee
Author: Dartmouth College. Senior CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The Report on Undergraduate Education of the Dartmouth College Senior Committee
Author: Dartmouth College. Senior committeePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
Undergraduate Report
Author: University of OregonBulletin
Author: University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus). Bureau of Educational ResearchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: The Effective College
Author: Robert Lincoln KellyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
A compilation of reports on the investigation made by the Association of American Colleges to discover the characteristics of an effective college. cf. Introd.
Grading the College
Author: Scott M. GelberPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 142143816X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
A comprehensive history of evaluation in American higher education. In Grading the College, Scott M. Gelber offers a comprehensive history of evaluating teaching and learning in higher education. He complicates the conventional narrative that portrays evaluation as a newfangled assault on the integrity of higher education while acknowledging that there are many compelling reasons to oppose those practices. The evaluation of teaching and learning, Gelber argues, presented genuine dilemmas that have attracted the attention of faculty members and academic leaders since the 1920s. Especially during the peak era of faculty authority that followed the end of the Second World War, significant numbers of professors and administrators believed that evaluation might improve institutional performance, reduce the bias inherent in traditional methods of supervision, strengthen communication with laypersons, and encourage a more deliberate focus on the distinctive goals of college. Gelber reveals the extent to which professors and academic interest groups participated in the development of our most common evaluation instruments, including student course questionnaires, achievement tests, surveys, rubrics, rankings, and accreditation self-studies. Although these efforts may seem distant from the present era of shortsighted scrutiny and ill-conceived comparisons, Gelber demonstrates that the evaluation of college teaching and learning has long consisted of a set of intellectually sophisticated questions that have engaged, and could continue to engage, faculty members and their advocates. By providing a deeper understanding of how evaluation operated before the dawn of high-stakes accountability, Grading the College seeks to promote productive conversations about current attempts to define and measure the purposes of American higher education.
The Amateur Hour
Author: Jonathan ZimmermanPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421439107
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
The first full-length history of college teaching in the United States from the nineteenth century to the present, this book sheds new light on the ongoing tension between the modern scholarly ideal—scientific, objective, and dispassionate—and the inevitably subjective nature of day-to-day instruction. American college teaching is in crisis, or so we are told. But we've heard that complaint for the past 150 years, as critics have denounced the poor quality of instruction in undergraduate classrooms. Students daydream in gigantic lecture halls while a professor drones on, or they meet with a teaching assistant for an hour of aimless discussion. The modern university does not reward teaching, so faculty members at every level neglect it in favor of research and publication. In the first book-length history of American college teaching, Jonathan Zimmerman confirms but also contradicts these perennial complaints. Drawing upon a wide range of previously unexamined sources, The Amateur Hour shows how generations of undergraduates indicted the weak instruction they received. But Zimmerman also chronicles institutional efforts to improve it, especially by making teaching more "personal." As higher education grew into a gigantic industry, he writes, American colleges and universities introduced small-group activities and other reforms designed to counter the anonymity of mass instruction. They also experimented with new technologies like television and computers, which promised to "personalize" teaching by tailoring it to the individual interests and abilities of each student. But, Zimmerman reveals, the emphasis on the personal inhibited the professionalization of college teaching, which remains, ultimately, an amateur enterprise. The more that Americans treated teaching as a highly personal endeavor, dependent on the idiosyncrasies of the instructor, the less they could develop shared standards for it. Nor have they rigorously documented college instruction, a highly public activity which has taken place mostly in private. Pushing open the classroom door, The Amateur Hour illuminates American college teaching and frames a fresh case for restoring intimate learning communities, especially for America's least privileged students. Anyone who wants to change college teaching will have to start here.
Ten Years of Educational Research
Author: Walter Scott MonroePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Annual Meeting
Author: American Association of Junior Colleges. MeetingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Junior colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description