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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... questions “of what we are and what we ought to be,” a point elaborated at length by Bruce Wilshire in his Moral Collapse of the University.7 A number of the detractors have pilloried universities for cheapening their students' education ...
... questions provided the initial impetus for writing this book. Having examined the evidence on the effects of college, I find good reason for the satisfaction of most alumni with their education. Countless studies have found that college ...
... questions in class, and solving mathematical problems. As one college president put it, “If you seek to bring your mental powers up to a high degree of efficiency, put them to work, and upon studies that will tax them to the uttermost ...
... questions of the instructor. Never before had such extensive intellectual resources been so readily available to enhance the undergraduate educational experience. RECENT CRITICISMS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE All the new courses ...
... question has always been how an institution mixed the academic with the vocational, not whether it did so.”32 The recent growth in the number of students pursuing vocational degrees seems to have come about primarily for two reasons ...
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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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