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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A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More - New Edition Derek Bok. important changes have occurred and what features of undergraduate education have remained essentially the same over time.1 THE ...
A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More - New Edition Derek Bok. tives: training the intellect and building character. The ... learning. For many students, it was the high point of an otherwise dull 13.
A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More - New Edition Derek Bok. were all becoming firmly established at a number of leading universities by the turn of the century.”7 More radical still were the ...
A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More - New Edition Derek Bok. research centers and interdepartmental programs aimed at understanding major regions of the world, such as Western and Eastern Europe ...
A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More - New Edition Derek Bok. simply that a student has substituted a practical, job-oriented concentration for a major in a liberal arts discipline. The re ...
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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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