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Book Synopsis
This comprehensive book focuses squarely on academic portfolios, which may prove to be the most innovative and promising faculty evaluation and development technique in years. The authors identify key issues, red flag warnings, and benchmarks for success, describing the what, why, and how of developing academic portfolios. The book includes an extensively tested step-by-step approach to creating portfolios and lists 21 possible portfolio items covering teaching, research/scholarship, and service from which faculty can choose the ones most relevant to them.

The thrust of this book is unique:

  • It provides time-tested strategies and proven advice for getting started with portfolios.
  • It includes a research-based rubric grounded in input from 200 faculty members and department chairs from across disciplines and institutions.
  • It examines specific guiding questions to consider when preparing every subsection of the portfolio.
  • It presents 18 portfolio

    Trade Review
    “If you plan to read only one book about portfolios, buy this one. Peter Seldin is the author or coauthor of over 16 books about faculty development and evaluation. His most recent books explored the use of portfolios in evaluating teaching or administrative performance. This one is dedicated to the use of the same tool in documenting all three components of a faculty work life, and is addressed both to the preparer and to evaluator of an academic portfolio.

    …Even the most faithful of Seldin’s readers will find new and updated content among many familiar themes, as well as a change of focus from the evaluator to the preparer of an academic portfolio.

    The anecdote at the end of Chapter 6 is telling about the authors’ opinion: the time to begin preparing an academic portfolio is now. Start by reading this book to find out why and how!”

    —The National Teaching and Learning Forum



    Table of Contents

    Preface ix

    Acknowledgments xiii

    About the Authors xv

    About the Contributors xix

    1 The Academic Portfolio Concept 1

    2 Choosing Items for the Academic Portfolio 11

    3 Preparing the Portfolio 31

    4 Suggestions for Improving the Portfolio 41

    5 Evaluating the Portfolio for Personnel Decisions 45

    6 Answers to Common Questions 51

    7 Sample Portfolios from Across Disciplines 59

    Biomedical Engineering 61
    Timothy M. Wick

    Bioscience and Biotechnology 79
    Shivanthi Anandan

    Child and Family Studies 93
    Lynda Henley Walters

    Education 111
    Robert M. Maninger

    Education 123
    Clement A. Seldin

    English 139
    John Zubizarreta

    Environmental Engineering 153
    Charles N. Haas

    Foreign Languages and Literature 167
    Sheri Spaine Long

    Geology and Environmental Science 181
    Ranjan S. Muttiah

    Jazz and Contemporary Music 197
    Reginald Workman

    Mathematical Sciences 215
    Lisa A. Oberbroeckling

    Nutritional Sciences 229
    Gina Jarman Hill

    Pastoral Counseling 247
    Kelly Murray

    Pediatric Emergency Medicine 259
    Annalise Sorrentino

    Political Science 277
    Carrie Liu Currier

    Political Science 295
    Marlene K. Sokolon

    Product Design 311
    Robert Kirkbride

    Psychology 329
    Pamela A. Geller

    References 349

    Index 351

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    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
    Publication Date: 31/10/2008
    ISBN13: 9780470256992, 978-0470256992
    ISBN10: 0470256990
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    This comprehensive book focuses squarely on academic portfolios, which may prove to be the most innovative and promising faculty evaluation and development technique in years. The authors identify key issues, red flag warnings, and benchmarks for success, describing the what, why, and how of developing academic portfolios. The book includes an extensively tested step-by-step approach to creating portfolios and lists 21 possible portfolio items covering teaching, research/scholarship, and service from which faculty can choose the ones most relevant to them.

    The thrust of this book is unique:

    • It provides time-tested strategies and proven advice for getting started with portfolios.
    • It includes a research-based rubric grounded in input from 200 faculty members and department chairs from across disciplines and institutions.
    • It examines specific guiding questions to consider when preparing every subsection of the portfolio.
    • It presents 18 portfolio

      Trade Review
      “If you plan to read only one book about portfolios, buy this one. Peter Seldin is the author or coauthor of over 16 books about faculty development and evaluation. His most recent books explored the use of portfolios in evaluating teaching or administrative performance. This one is dedicated to the use of the same tool in documenting all three components of a faculty work life, and is addressed both to the preparer and to evaluator of an academic portfolio.

      …Even the most faithful of Seldin’s readers will find new and updated content among many familiar themes, as well as a change of focus from the evaluator to the preparer of an academic portfolio.

      The anecdote at the end of Chapter 6 is telling about the authors’ opinion: the time to begin preparing an academic portfolio is now. Start by reading this book to find out why and how!”

      —The National Teaching and Learning Forum



      Table of Contents

      Preface ix

      Acknowledgments xiii

      About the Authors xv

      About the Contributors xix

      1 The Academic Portfolio Concept 1

      2 Choosing Items for the Academic Portfolio 11

      3 Preparing the Portfolio 31

      4 Suggestions for Improving the Portfolio 41

      5 Evaluating the Portfolio for Personnel Decisions 45

      6 Answers to Common Questions 51

      7 Sample Portfolios from Across Disciplines 59

      Biomedical Engineering 61
      Timothy M. Wick

      Bioscience and Biotechnology 79
      Shivanthi Anandan

      Child and Family Studies 93
      Lynda Henley Walters

      Education 111
      Robert M. Maninger

      Education 123
      Clement A. Seldin

      English 139
      John Zubizarreta

      Environmental Engineering 153
      Charles N. Haas

      Foreign Languages and Literature 167
      Sheri Spaine Long

      Geology and Environmental Science 181
      Ranjan S. Muttiah

      Jazz and Contemporary Music 197
      Reginald Workman

      Mathematical Sciences 215
      Lisa A. Oberbroeckling

      Nutritional Sciences 229
      Gina Jarman Hill

      Pastoral Counseling 247
      Kelly Murray

      Pediatric Emergency Medicine 259
      Annalise Sorrentino

      Political Science 277
      Carrie Liu Currier

      Political Science 295
      Marlene K. Sokolon

      Product Design 311
      Robert Kirkbride

      Psychology 329
      Pamela A. Geller

      References 349

      Index 351

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