This report uses a model that views various strategies for improving instruction as helping motivate individual faculty members to improve their teaching by changing (and maintaining) certian of their instructional attitudes and practices (through the process of unfreezing, changing, and refreezing certian attitudes and behaviors).
Examines the joint obligations of students and institutions, plus their effect on the quality of learning. Discusses the work of Robert Pace and includes an appAndix of his College Student Experience Questionnaire "Quality of Effort" scales. Also explores theories of student responsibility and college environment.
Summarizes state studies of faculty workload and research on faculty productivity. Discusses problems with existing study designs and their results. Offers solutions with greater potential for improving productivity, with a focus on student learning, curricula, and mission.
Explores the evolving role of student affairs in our changing society, the growing accountability of higher education, the changing student clientele, and new institutional strategies. Looks at the new "integrator" role and the challenges facing student affairs professionals.
One of the purposes of this collection is to encourage faculty to reflect on the learning process and on the influence of their teaching. Higher education in the United States has been challenged to improve the learning experiences of students. Given sufficient support and resources, college and university faculty have the capability to enhance ...
This report synthesizes mentoring literature in terms of conceptual frameworks, mentoring arenas, and roles and functions of mentors and proteges. Further discussed are the dynamics of mentoring for empowering faculty members as leaders and the importance of mentoring women and minorities in academe. Planning mentoring and faculty mentoring models ...
This report synthesizes the literature about faculty performance, exploring variations by gAnder and race in publishing productivity. It probes questions about the equity of traditional measures in publication quality and quantity.
This report provides a brief history of the most recent wave of assessment in higher education, particularly focused on the faculty role in assessment. It traces major conceptual, methodological, political and policy advances in assessment over the past decade. The authors suggest some ways of thinking about assessment, strategies, and next steps ...
Covers the background and current situation in academic advising; examines the effects and use of personal contact, involvement, and persistence; and looks at the student/advisor relationship. Discusses the knowledge on advising a variety of student types in various situations, and offers strategies for future program success.
This study reports information on college students' learning in general education. It represents a first attempt to record on a national scale the achievement in general education for our college level population. The exam is described fully, as is the population of students and the institutions they represent. Following the presentation of the ...
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