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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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