Author: Laurie Richlin
Publisher: Stylus Publishing
Keywords: learning, assess, document, facilitate, college, constructing, blueprint, courses
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2006-06
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 1579221424
ISBN-13: 9781579221423

** An acclaimed educator presents hands-on advice on teaching that meets today’s emphasis on learning outcomes and assessment** Informed by the most up-to-date research on how people learn** For all instructors in higher education--as well as high school teachersLaurie Richlin has been running a workshop on course design for higher education for over fifteen years, modifying and improving it progressively from the feedback of participants, and from what they in turn have taught her.Her goals are to enable participants to appropriately select teaching strategies, to design and create

Authors:Marcia B. Baxter Magolda, Patricia M. King,
Publisher: Stylus Publishing
Keywords: educate, authorship, practice, models, partnerships, theory, learning
Number of Pages: 342
Published: 2004-04-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1579220851
ISBN-13: 9781579220853

While a common goal of higher education is to improve student learning to prepare young adults for the professional, civic and personal challenges of their lives, few institutions have a model to facilitate these outcomes. Learning Partnerships offers a grounded theory and practical examples of how these objectives can be achieved at the college course, program, and institutional levels. The book takes as its foundation Marcia Baxter Magolda?s Learning Partnerships Model based on her seventeen-year longitudinal study of young adults? learning and development from their undergraduate years thro

Author: Marcia B. Baxter Magolda
Publisher: Stylus Publishing
Keywords: education, promote, development, higher, transforming, own, way, narratives, making
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 2004-01-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1579220916
ISBN-13: 9781579220914

WINNER OF AERA?S "NARRATIVE & RESEARCH SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP 2003" BOOK AWARD What impact does a college education have on students’ careers and personal lives after they graduate? Do they consider themselves well prepared for the demands and ambiguities of contemporary society? What can we learn from their stories to improve the college learning experience? This groundbreaking book extends Marcia Baxter Magolda?s renowned longitudinal study and follows her participants? lives from their graduation to their early thirties. We follow these students? journeys to an internally-authored sen

Authors:Peggy L. Maki, Nancy A. Borkowski, Daniel D. Denec
Publisher: Stylus Publishing
Keywords: models, improving, outcomes, new, criteria, doctoral, education, emerging, assessment
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2006-10-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1579221793
ISBN-13: 9781579221799

Following the growing commitment to assessment at the undergraduate level, doctoral programs are now grappling with what accountability means for them.This book provides a foundation for faculty and academic leaders of doctoral programs to promote inquiry into the educational practices that define their programs and contribute to graduate students’ learning. It presents an array of examples of new program- and student-level assessment practices. The ideas and practices described here expand program review to include evidence of student learning--that is, students’ demonstration of

Author: William G. Tierney
Publisher: Stylus Publishing
Keywords: practice, higher, education, theory, making, culture, organizational, decision, impact
Number of Pages: 190
Published: 2008-09-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1579222870
ISBN-13: 9781579222871

Colleges and universities are currently undergoing the most significant challenges they have faced since World War II. Rising costs, increased competition from for-profit providers, the impact of technology, and the changing desires and needs of consumers have combined to create a dynamic tension for those who work in, and study, postsecondary education. What worked yesterday is unlikely to work tomorrow. The status quo or bromides such as “stay the course” are insufficient responses in a market that demands creativity and innovation if an organization does not simply wish to survive, but

Authors:Robert Feirsen, Seth Weitzma,
Publisher: Stylus Publishing
Keywords: teachers, changing, schools, career, changers, returning, graduates, job, complete, guide, college, teaching
Number of Pages: 161
Published: 2004-01-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1579220681
ISBN-13: 9781579220686

Competition for the best teaching jobs is becoming more intense. Since publication of the first edition, when it was mainly the most desirable schools that were deluged by applications, the economic climate has made the teacher market more competitive across the board, and is changing hiring practices. Now extensively revised, this book maintains its place as the most up-to-date book available on job hunting for teachers. The authors cover changes in the educational marketplace; the new mandates about standardized testing and public reporting of student achievement – and what they mean for ap

Author: Barbara E. Lovitt
Publisher: Stylus Publishing
Keywords: expectations, dissertation, performance, creating, implicit, explicit, making
Number of Pages: 428
Published: 2007-03-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1579221815
ISBN-13: 9781579221812

Despite their and other stakeholders’ consistent demand for excellence, doctoral programs have rarely, if ever, been assessed in terms of the quality of the dissertations departments produce. Yet dissertations provide the most powerful, objective measure of the success of a department’s doctoral program. Indeed, assessment, when done properly, can help departments achieve excellence by providing insight into a program’s strengths and weaknesses.This book and the groundbreaking study on which it is based is about making explicit to doctoral students the tacit “rules” for the assessmen