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Book SynopsisHow major research universities contribute to undergraduate teaching
Trade Review[This] book contributes significantly to the national discussion of teaching and learning in higher education, and it reflects well on the commitment of Indiana University and other research institutions to improve student learning through leadership and the support of scholarly research.Vol. 77.2 March/April 2006
-- James J. F. Forest * U.S. Military academy *
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education is a fine resource, solidly recommended. April 2011
* Midwest Book Review *
Drawn from the four-year Scholarship of Teaching and Learning program at Indiana University, the 12 articles in this collection illustrate the contributions that research universities make to pedagogical advances in higher education.Spring 2005
* Research & Creative Activity / RUGS *
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List of Contributors
Preface
1. Visions of the Possible: Models for Campus Support of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Lee S. Shulman
2. Transforming Students into Historical Researchers:A Photographic Historian's Perspective Claude Cookman
3. The Stone Age in the Information Age: Helping Undergraduates Think like Archaeologists Jeanne Sept
4. Studies of Teaching and Learning in the Context of One-on-One Interactions: A Clinical Perspective Moya L. Andrews
5. Bringing Contemporary Quantitative Methods into the Undergraduate Computer Classroom William E. Becker and William H. Greene
6. The Research-Teaching-Research Cycle: One Biologist's Experience Craig E. Nelson
7. The Three Faces of SOTL: The Contribution of the Summer Freshman Institute Project to Service, Teaching and Research Bernice A. Pescosolido, Jeni Loftus, Stacy Scherr, Laura Fingerson, Kathryn Gold Hadley, Jenny Stuber and Paul Ruggerio Namaste
8. The Contributions of the Research University to Assessment and Innovation in Undergraduate Education George D. Kuh
9. "In My Class? No.": Professors' Accounts of Grade Inflation Janice McCabe and Brian Powell
10. Educational Assessment and Underlying Models of Cognition Lei Bao and Edward F. Redish
11. A Critique of the Quantitative Research on Teaching: Which Methods Work William E. Becker
12. The Mathematics Throughout the Curriculum Project Daniel P. Maki, Marc Frantz, and Bart S. Ng
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