Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning MorePrinceton University Press, 2006 - 413 Seiten Drawing on a large body of empirical evidence, former Harvard President Derek Bok examines how much progress college students actually make toward widely accepted goals of undergraduate education. His conclusions are sobering. Although most students make gains in many important respects, they improve much less than they should in such important areas as writing, critical thinking, quantitative skills, and moral reasoning. Large majorities of college seniors do not feel that they have made substantial progress in speaking a foreign language, acquiring cultural and aesthetic interests, or learning what they need to know to become active and informed citizens. Overall, despite their vastly increased resources, more powerful technology, and hundreds of new courses, colleges cannot be confident that students are learning more than they did fifty years ago. |
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... are left to the least experienced teachers and that most professors continue to teach in ways that have proven to be less effective than other available methods . In reviewing their OUR UNDERACHIEVING COLLEGES This One 3J11 - OAB - P8WQ.
... Professors too — almost all from the humanities — began publish- ing critical essays of their own . The titles of these books capture the prevailing tone : The Closing of the American Mind , The University in Ruins , The Moral Collapse ...
... widely informed , reflective human beings . A final complaint accuses the faculty of neglecting their students . Authors such as Charles Sykes in Profscam have INTRODUCTION assailed tenured professors for caring only about their re- 3.
... professors for caring only about their re- search and appointing new colleagues almost entirely for their scholarly reputations , with little heed to the quality of their teaching . 12 The few young faculty members who man- age to ...
... professors and academic leaders must keep a proper perspective . It is especially im- portant to bear in mind all the purposes universities serve and to resist efforts to turn them into instruments preoccu- pied chiefly with helping the ...
Inhalt
The Evolution of American Colleges | 11 |
Faculty Attitudes toward Undergraduate Education | 31 |
Purposes | 58 |
Learning to Communicate | 82 |
Learning to Think | 109 |
Building Character | 146 |
Preparation for Citizenship | 172 |
Living with Diversity | 194 |
Preparing for a Global Society | 225 |
Acquiring Broader Interests | 255 |
Preparing for a Career | 281 |
Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education | 310 |
Notes | 345 |
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