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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... 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, Contents.
A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More - New Edition Derek Bok. This page intentionally left blank ACKNOWLEDGMENTS In writing this book, I have benefited much from.
... writing this book, I have benefited much from the work of three research assistants, Dolly Bross Geary, Kiernan Mathews, and Elena Zinchenko, who have found many valuable sources to enlighten my inquiries. Other colleagues—Darla ...
... writers. The very ideals of truth and objectivity, along with conventional judgments of quality, are thought to be endangered by attacks from deconstructionists, feminists, Marxists, and other literary theorists who deny that such goals ...
... writers condemn our colleges so harshly if students, parents, and graduates value them so highly? On this point, the ... writing this book. Having examined the evidence on the effects of college, I find good reason for the satisfaction ...
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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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