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Quality in the Undergraduate Experience

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309443016
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)

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Book Synopsis Quality in the Undergraduate Experience by : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Download or read book Quality in the Undergraduate Experience written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-07-16 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students, parents, and government agencies need as much information as possible about the outcomes of the higher education experience and the extent to which they can expect a fair return on their investment in higher education.In order to better understand the concept of quality - enabling students to acquire knowledge in a variety of disciplines and deep knowledge in at least one discipline, as well as to develop a range of skills and habits of mind that prepare them for career success, engaged citizenship, intercultural competence, social responsibility, and continued intellectual growth - an ad hoc planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Board on Higher Education and Workforce, with funding from the Lumina Foundation, organized a workshop in Washington, D.C., on December 14-15, 2015.This report summarizes the presentations and discussion of that event.

Undergraduate Education in Psychology

Author : Diane F. Halpern
Publisher : American Psychological Association (APA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Undergraduate Education in Psychology written by Diane F. Halpern and published by American Psychological Association (APA). This book was released on 2010 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines what our students need to know to be psychologically literate citizens of the contemporary world, caring family members, and productive workers who can meet challenges. This work creates a fresh model for educating psychologically literate citizens.

Improving Quality in American Higher Education

Author : Richard Arum
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119268524
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book Improving Quality in American Higher Education written by Richard Arum and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ambitious, comprehensive reimagining of 21st century higher education Improving Quality in American Higher Education outlines the fundamental concepts and competencies society demands from today's college graduates, and provides a vision of the future for students, faculty, and administrators. Based on a national, multidisciplinary effort to define and measure learning outcomes—the Measuring College Learning project—this book identifies 'essential concepts and competencies' for six disciplines. These essential concepts and competencies represent efforts towards articulating a consensus among faculty in biology, business, communication, economics, history, and sociology—disciplines that account for nearly 40 percent of undergraduate majors in the United States. Contributions from thought leaders in higher education, including Ira Katznelson, George Kuh, and Carol Geary Schneider, offer expert perspectives and persuasive arguments for the need for greater clarity, intentionality, and quality in U.S. higher education. College faculty are our best resource for improving the quality of undergraduate education. This book offers a path forward based on faculty perspectives nationwide: Clarify program structure and aims Articulate high-quality learning goals Rigorously measure student progress Prioritize higher order competencies and disciplinarily grounded conceptual understandings A culmination of over two years of efforts by faculty and association leaders from six disciplines, this book distills the national conversation into a delineated set of fundamental ideas and practices, and advocates for the development and use of rigorous assessment tools that are valued by faculty, students, and society. Improving Quality in American Higher Education brings faculty voices to the fore of the conversation and offers an insightful look at the state of higher education, and a realistic strategy for better serving our students.

Quality in Higher Education

Author : Brent D. Ruben
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351293540
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Quality in Higher Education written by Brent D. Ruben and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of quality in higher education is by no means a new one. By one set of definitions or another, colleges and universities throughout the world have always held the pursuit of excellence as their primary goal. Why then has the quality approach, developed and popularized in industry, and how increasingly applied in health care and government, receiving so much attention in higher education at this moment? What does this perspective add to the approaches to excellence with which they have long embraced?These are the two primary questions that this book seeks to address. Chapters and contributors include: "The New Productivity" by Peter F. Drucker; "World War n and the Quality Movement" by J. M. Juran; "The Quality Approach to Higher Education: Context of Concepts for Change" by Brent Ruben; "The Big Questions in Higher Education Today" by L. Edwin Coate; "An American Approach to Quality" by Marilyn R. Zuckerman and Lewis J. Hatala; "Quality hi Higher Education: Critical Issues in Definition and Assessment" by Brent Ruben; and "Ten Areas for Future Research in Total Quality Management" by A. Blanton Godfrey. The volume is graced with an opening essay by Francis L. Lawrence, president of Rutgers University.Higher education is in the public spotlight today due to the many challenges it now faces: rising tuition costs; frustration about a tight job market for graduates; calls for increased faculty productivity; concerns about political correctness; and criticisms regarding the use of grant and research funds, among others. Quality in Higher Education is a particularly timely book that will greatly benefit educators, university administrators, students, and sociologists, and all those who are interested in higher education today.

Improving Quality in American Higher Education

Author : Richard Arum
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119268508
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book Improving Quality in American Higher Education written by Richard Arum and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ambitious, comprehensive reimagining of 21st century higher education Improving Quality in American Higher Education outlines the fundamental concepts and competencies society demands from today's college graduates, and provides a vision of the future for students, faculty, and administrators. Based on a national, multidisciplinary effort to define and measure learning outcomes—the Measuring College Learning project—this book identifies 'essential concepts and competencies' for six disciplines. These essential concepts and competencies represent efforts towards articulating a consensus among faculty in biology, business, communication, economics, history, and sociology—disciplines that account for nearly 40 percent of undergraduate majors in the United States. Contributions from thought leaders in higher education, including Ira Katznelson, George Kuh, and Carol Geary Schneider, offer expert perspectives and persuasive arguments for the need for greater clarity, intentionality, and quality in U.S. higher education. College faculty are our best resource for improving the quality of undergraduate education. This book offers a path forward based on faculty perspectives nationwide: Clarify program structure and aims Articulate high-quality learning goals Rigorously measure student progress Prioritize higher order competencies and disciplinarily grounded conceptual understandings A culmination of over two years of efforts by faculty and association leaders from six disciplines, this book distills the national conversation into a delineated set of fundamental ideas and practices, and advocates for the development and use of rigorous assessment tools that are valued by faculty, students, and society. Improving Quality in American Higher Education brings faculty voices to the fore of the conversation and offers an insightful look at the state of higher education, and a realistic strategy for better serving our students.

High-impact Educational Practices

Author : George D. Kuh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book High-impact Educational Practices written by George D. Kuh and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication¿the latest report from AAC&U¿s Liberal Education and America¿s Promise (LEAP) initiative¿defines a set of educational practices that research has demonstrated have a significant impact on student success. Author George Kuh presents data from the National Survey of Student Engagement about these practices and explains why they benefit all students, but also seem to benefit underserved students even more than their more advantaged peers. The report also presents data that show definitively that underserved students are the least likely students, on average, to have access to these practices.

Why Public Higher Education Should Be Free

Author : Robert Samuels
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813561256
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Why Public Higher Education Should Be Free written by Robert Samuels and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Universities tend to be judged by the test scores of their incoming students and not on what students actually learn once they attend these institutions. While shared tests and surveys have been developed, most schools refuse to publish the results. Instead, they allow such publications as U.S. News & World Report to define educational quality. In order to raise their status in these rankings, institutions pour money into new facilities and extracurricular activities while underfunding their educational programs. In Why Public Higher Education Should Be Free, Robert Samuels argues that many institutions of higher education squander funds and mislead the public about such things as average class size, faculty-to-student ratios, number of faculty with PhDs, and other indicators of educational quality. Parents and students seem to have little knowledge of how colleges and universities have been restructured over the past thirty years. Samuels shows how research universities have begun to function as giant investment banks or hedge funds that spend money on athletics and administration while increasing tuition costs and actually lowering the quality of undergraduate education. In order to fight higher costs and lower quality, Samuels suggests, universities must reallocate these misused funds and concentrate on their core mission of instruction and related research. Throughout the book, Samuels argues that the future of our economy and democracy rests on our ability to train students to be thoughtful participants in the production and analysis of knowledge. If leading universities serve only to grant credentials and prestige, our society will suffer irrevocable harm. Presenting the problem of how universities make and spend money, Samuels provides solutions to make these important institutions less expensive and more vital. By using current resources in a more effective manner, we could even, he contends, make all public higher education free.

On Q

Author : Daniel Seymour
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book On Q written by Daniel Seymour and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1993 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about rethinking, reworking, or reinforcing past solutions. It outlines not only the importance and history of qualiy in education, but also the basic principles that underline the management of quality and different quality opportunities. This book is unique in its desire to merge the philosophy and tools of strategic quality management from industry with the thoughts of campus administrators and call for sharply defined measures of educational quality that can shape the perceptions of our constituencies.

Evaluating and Improving Undergraduate Teaching in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309072778
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Evaluating and Improving Undergraduate Teaching in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2003-01-19 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic, academic, and social forces are causing undergraduate schools to start a fresh examination of teaching effectiveness. Administrators face the complex task of developing equitable, predictable ways to evaluate, encourage, and reward good teaching in science, math, engineering, and technology. Evaluating, and Improving Undergraduate Teaching in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics offers a vision for systematic evaluation of teaching practices and academic programs, with recommendations to the various stakeholders in higher education about how to achieve change. What is good undergraduate teaching? This book discusses how to evaluate undergraduate teaching of science, mathematics, engineering, and technology and what characterizes effective teaching in these fields. Why has it been difficult for colleges and universities to address the question of teaching effectiveness? The committee explores the implications of differences between the research and teaching cultures-and how practices in rewarding researchers could be transferred to the teaching enterprise. How should administrators approach the evaluation of individual faculty members? And how should evaluation results be used? The committee discusses methodologies, offers practical guidelines, and points out pitfalls. Evaluating, and Improving Undergraduate Teaching in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics provides a blueprint for institutions ready to build effective evaluation programs for teaching in science fields.

Access to Quality Undergraduate Education

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Access to Quality Undergraduate Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Quality in Undergraduate Education

Author : Monica McLean
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474214517
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Quality in Undergraduate Education written by Monica McLean and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-28 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globally, the appetite for higher education is great, but what do students and societies gain? Quality in Undergraduate Education foregrounds the importance of knowledge acquisition at university. Many argue that university education is no longer a public good due to the costs incurred by students who are then motivated by the promise of lucrative employment rather than by studying a discipline for its own sake. McLean, Abbas and Ashwin, however, reveal a more complex picture and offer a way of thinking about good quality university education for all. Drawing on a study which focused on four sociology-related social science UK university departments of different reputation, the book shows that students value sociological knowledge because it gives them a framework to think about and act on understanding how individuals and society interact. Further, the authors discuss how what was learned from the study about how policy, curriculum and pedagogy might preserve and strengthen the personal and social gains of social science undergraduate education.

Involvement in Learning

Author : National Institute of Education (U.S.). Study Group on the Conditions of Excellence in American Higher Education
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Involvement in Learning written by National Institute of Education (U.S.). Study Group on the Conditions of Excellence in American Higher Education and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Quality of Higher Education

Author : Yihuan Zou
Publisher : River Publishers
ISBN 13 : 8792982557
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (929 download)

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Download or read book Quality of Higher Education written by Yihuan Zou and published by River Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about constructing a more inclusive understanding of quality in higher education through combining the macro, meso and micro levels, i.e. from the perspectives of national policy, higher education institutions as organizations in society, individual teaching staff and students.

The Quest for Quality

Author : Lewis B. Mayhew
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Quest for Quality written by Lewis B. Mayhew and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1990-09-19 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part 1: Forces affecting quality in undergraduate education -- The challenges to educational quality since World War II -- Current perspectives on academic quality -- The undergraduate curriculum and general education -- Part 2: An agenda for strengthening academic quality -- Reforming the curriculum -- Streamlining extracurricular services -- Maintaining a high-quality professoriate -- Foresting competent teaching -- Strengthening academic leadership -- Rethinking decision-making roles and authority -- Part 3: Monitoring quality -- The role of accreditation -- Governing boards and coordinating agencies -- Strengthening undergraduate education: a national imperative.

Keeping the Promise

Author : Patt VanDyke
Publisher : Amer Assn of State Colleges &
ISBN 13 : 9780880441230
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Keeping the Promise written by Patt VanDyke and published by Amer Assn of State Colleges &. This book was released on 1991 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly all the pundits of higher education point out the need to improve the quality of undergraduate education, but how is excellence to be achieved? This book suggests many possible answers. In Keeping the Promise, a spectrum of academicians-from chancellors to faculty members-discuss specific ways to increase standards, revise curricula, enhance campus life, and improve assessment. Such notables as Alexander Astin and Lewis Mayhew, as well as several deans, program directors, and professors, offer probing insight and practical advice on how to strengthen undergraduate education. The book presents not only the 'big picture' of achieving excellence but also concrete examples of actual innovative programs operating on campuses today, including SUNY, CUNY, San Diego State, Bowling Green, Western Michigan, and many others. Topics include: the campus environment, shared governance, faculty governance, teacher education, core curricula, outcomes assessment, computer literacy, honors programs, arts programs, science and math instruction, ethics instruction, interdisciplinary studies, and program evaluation.

From Reports to Response

Author : Clifford Adelman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Reports to Response written by Clifford Adelman and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Indicators for Monitoring Undergraduate STEM Education

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309467888
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Indicators for Monitoring Undergraduate STEM Education written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-04-08 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) professionals generate a stream of scientific discoveries and technological innovations that fuel job creation and national economic growth. Ensuring a robust supply of these professionals is critical for sustaining growth and creating jobs growth at a time of intense global competition. Undergraduate STEM education prepares the STEM professionals of today and those of tomorrow, while also helping all students develop knowledge and skills they can draw on in a variety of occupations and as individual citizens. However, many capable students intending to major in STEM later switch to another field or drop out of higher education altogether, partly because of documented weaknesses in STEM teaching, learning and student supports. Improving undergraduate STEM education to address these weaknesses is a national imperative. Many initiatives are now underway to improve the quality of undergraduate STEM teaching and learning. Some focus on the national level, others involve multi-institution collaborations, and others take place on individual campuses. At present, however, policymakers and the public do not know whether these various initiatives are accomplishing their goals and leading to nationwide improvement in undergraduate STEM education. Indicators for Monitoring Undergraduate STEM Education outlines a framework and a set of indicators that document the status and quality of undergraduate STEM education at the national level over multiple years. It also indicates areas where additional research is needed in order to develop appropriate measures. This publication will be valuable to government agencies that make investments in higher education, institutions of higher education, private funders of higher education programs, and industry stakeholders. It will also be of interest to researchers who study higher education.