Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More - New EditionPrinceton University Press, 28.02.2009 - 440 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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... Interests 255 11 Preparing for a Career 281 12 Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education 310 Afterword to the Paperback Edition 345 Notes 361 Index 411 This page intentionally left blank ACKNOWLEDGMENTS In writing this book, ...
... interests. By the end of his 40-year term of office in 1909, only a course in English composition and the study of one foreign language were required of freshmen. Sophomores, juniors, and seniors were left completely free to study what ...
... interests and needs, many foreign educators look upon the diversity of our colleges as a strength rather than a weakness. While the aims of a liberal education may be no more confused or contested today than they were a hundred years ...
... interest, some were inaudible, and some wasted time dictating data or having it copied from the blackboard.”37 In this re- spect, Harvard was not unique. As Robert Angell of the University of Michigan observed in 1928, “No one can deny ...
... interest in mastering them because of their value in helping to achieve a variety of desired ends—not only advancement in one's career but also success in community activities, in marriage, and even in such mundane tasks as bargaining ...
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3 Purposes | 58 |
4 Learning to Communicate | 82 |
5 Learning to Think | 109 |
6 Building Character | 146 |
7 Preparation for Citizenship | 172 |
9 Preparing for a Global Society | 225 |
10 Acquiring Broader Interests | 255 |
11 Preparing for a Career | 281 |
12 Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education | 310 |
Afterword to the Paperback Edition | 345 |
Notes | 361 |
Index | 411 |
8 Living with Diversity | 194 |
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