To Improve the Academy, Vol 16

The Wabash Center

Author: DeZure, Deborah and Matthew Kaplan, eds.
Publisher: To Improve the Academy 16 (Professional and Organizational Development Network, New Forums Press, Stillwater, OK 1997)
Table of Contents: Foreward
Introduction

Section I: Changing Roles for Faculty and Faculty Developers
ch. 1 Institutional Missions, Multiple Faculty Roles: Implications for Faculty Devleopment (Ann E. Austin, Joseph J. Brocato, and Jonathan D. Rohrer)
ch. 2 University Professors at Mid-life: Being a Part of...But Feeling Apart (Irene E. Karpiak)
ch. 3 Faculty Development and the Inclusion of Diversity in the College Classroom: Pedagogies and Curricular Transformation (James A. Anderson)
ch. 4 A Global Faculty Development Network: The International Consortium for Educational Development (ICED) (Karron G. Lewis and Eric Kristense)
ch. 5 Teaching Improvement Consultation for Teaching on Television (Joyce Povlacs Lunde and Myra S. Whilhite)

Section II: Faculty Development Program Models
ch. 6 Incorporating Theories of Teacher Growth and Adult Education in a Faculty Development Program Alenoush Saroyan, Cheryl Amundsen, and Cao Li)
ch. 7 A New Starting Point for Faculty Development in Higher Education: Creating a Collaborative Learning Environment (Katherine Sanders, Christopher Carlson-Dakes, Karen Dettinger, Catherine Hajnal, Mary Laedtke, and Lynn Squire)
ch. 8 The Impact of Comprehensive Institutional Assessment on Faculty (Tracey Sutherland and James Guffey)
ch. 9 WAC Revisited: An Overlooked Model for Transformative Faculty Development (James S. Laughlin)

Section III: Assessing Faculty Development Activities
ch. 10 Teaching Awards: The Problem of Assessing Their Impact (Nancy Van Note Chism and Borbala L. Szabo)
ch. 11 "A Continuing Conversation on Teaching:" An Evaluation of a Decade-Long Lilly Teaching Fellows Program 1986-1996 (Karen List)
ch. 12 Long-Term Patterns in a Mentoring Program for Junior Faculty: Recommendations for Practice (Milton D. Cox)

Section IV: Evaluating Teaching Effectiveness
ch. 13 The Pedagogical Colloquium: Taking Teaching Seriously in the Faculty Hiring Process (Pat Hutchings)
ch. 14 Implementing Peer Review Programs: A Twelve Step Model (Jamie Webb and Kathleen McEnerney)
ch. 15 Improving Teaching Through Faculty Portfolio Conversations (Patricia Hagerty, Kenneth Wolf and Barbara Whinery)
ch. 16 Using Student Feedback to Improve Teaching (Peter Seldin)

Section V: Designing Effective Courses, Assignments and Activities
ch. 17 Helping Faculty Design Assignment-Centered Courses (Barbara E. Walvoord and John R. Breihan)
ch. 18 Designing Effective Group Activities: Lessons for Classroom Teaching and Faculty Development (Larry K. Michaelsen, L. Dee Fink and Arletta Knight)
ch. 19 Small Group Techniques: Selecting and Developing Activities Based on Stages of Group Development (Sandra A. Harris and Kathryn J. Watson)

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