Collective Goods and Higher Education Research: Pasteur's Quadrant in Higher Education

ISBN-13: 9780367585037 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 212 str.

Roger Benjamin

Opis

With this volume, the author demonstrates how a collective goods approach to higher education research can alleviate problems of rising costs, declining resources, and growing concerns about undergraduate learning.

Spis treści

Part I The Framework

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The Framework: Pasteur’s Quadrant in Higher Education

Part II Evidence-Based Applications to Policy Questions

Chapter 3 The Future Higher Education Policy Landscape From the Pasteur’s Quadrant Perspective

Chapter 4 The Focus on Critical Thinking Skills for the Classroom, the Instructor, and New Sources of Content

Chapter 5 Recreating the Faculty Role in University Governance

Chapter 6 Leveling the Playing Field From College to Career

Chapter 7 The Role of Generic Skills Assessment in Measuring Academic Quality

Part III The Rationale for Standardized Assessments in Higher Education

Chapter 8 The Case for Comparative Institutional Assessment of Higher-Order

Thinking Skills

Chapter 9 The Case for Performance-based Assessments and Critical Thinking Tests

Chapter 10 Two Questions About Critical Thinking Tests

Chapter 11 Conclusion

Coda CLA+ Analytics: Making Data Relevant Through Data Mining in Real Time

O autorze

Roger Benjamin has been president of CAE, an education assessment testing organization since 2005.