Classroom Research: Implementing the Scholarship of Teaching

Classroom Research is designed for use in faculty discussion groups, workshops, and seminars to prepare discipline–oriented faculty for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. The book′s real–life case studies illustrate basic principles of learning and provide provocative materials for discussion along with practical suggestions for research that can be conducted by faculty from all disciplines in their own classrooms.

Spis treści:
Introduction to Classroom Research.
?The Leslies? Learning Issues: Prerequisite Knowledge;
Metacognition and Learning Strategies;
Self–Confidence and Motivation.
?The Captive Audience? Learning Issues: Learning Goals;
Deep and Surface Learning, Student Ratings of Instruction.
?But Is It Working?? Learning Issues: Peer Learning and Intellectual Development, Critical Thinking.
?The Challenge? Designing Your Own Classroom Research.

Nota biograficzna:
K. PATRICIA CROSS is David Pierpont Gardner Professor of Higher Education at the University of California Berkeley. MIMI HARRIS STEADMAN is a research specialist at the National Center for Research in Vocational Education at the University of California, Berkeley.

Okładka tylna:
Classroom Research is designed for use in faculty discussion groups, workshops, and seminars to prepare discipline–oriented faculty for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. The book′s real–life case studies illustrate basic principles of learning and provide provocative materials for discussion along with practical suggestions for research that can be conducted by faculty from all disciplines in their own classrooms.