A publication of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, this important resource builds on the work of Carnegie's best-selling books, Scholarship Reconsidered and Scholarship Assessed. The Advancement of Learning explores the premise that the scholarship of teaching and learning holds the key to improving the quality of higher education.

The Advancement of Learning answers questions readers are likely to have:

• What are the defining elements of the scholarship of teaching and learning?
• What traditions does it build on?
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Over recent decades, the evaluation of teaching has undergone dramatic change. In accessible language and supportive detail, Changing Practices in Evaluating Teaching provides not only a cogent overview of these changes but also reflects on current developments to present several useful strategies for implementing new tools and methods in the evaluation of teaching. The authors are all prominent educators who have performed seminal work in the improvement of teaching evaluation.

Written for university and college administrators as well as faculty, this book is a complete guidebook...

This book addresses the all-important dimensions of collaboration in the study of learning raised by such questions as: Should teachers engage students directly in discussions and inquiry about learning? To what extent? What is gained by the collaboration? Does it improve learning, and what do shared responsibilities mean for classroom dynamics, and beyond?

Practicing what it advocates, a faculty-student team co-edited this book, and faculty-student (or former student) teams co-authored eight of its eleven chapters.

The opening section of this book explores such...

This valuable work suggests one model in which faculty assemble a collection of carefully selected work samples accompanied by reflective commentary about them. Covers the what, why, and how of teaching portfolios, with pointers for getting started and a sampling of current campus practices. Includes reproductions of eight actual portfolio entries. The companion volume toCampus Use of the Teaching Portfolio.

Describes strategies through which faculty can document and -go public- with their teaching--be it for purposes of improvement or evaluation. Each of nine chapters features a different strategy--from the fairly simple, low-risk -teaching circle, - to -course portfolios, - to more formal departmental occasions such as faculty hiring--with reports by faculty who have actually tried each strategy, guidelines for good practice, and an annotated list of resources.

Cousin to The Teaching Portfolio, which documents a broad sampling of a faculty member's pedagogical work, the course portfolio focuses instead on the unfolding of a single course, from conception to results. The volume covers defining features and functions, steps in development, audiences and occasions for use, and the course portfolio's place in the development of a scholarship of teaching and learning. It also includes nine case studies by faculty in a range of disciplines who have developed and used course portfolios, as well as an annotated resource list.

Why do students stumble over certain concepts and ideas--such as attributing causality to correlation; revert to former misconceptions, even after successfully completing a course--such as physics students continuing to believe an object tossed straight into the air continues to have a force propelling it upward; or get confused about terminology--such as conflating negative reinforcement with punishment?

This is the first book about lesson study for higher education. Based on the idea that the best setting in which to examine teaching is where it takes place on a daily...

Why do students stumble over certain concepts and ideas--such as attributing causality to correlation; revert to former misconceptions, even after successfully completing a course--such as physics students continuing to believe an object tossed straight into the air continues to have a force propelling it upward; or get confused about terminology--such as conflating negative reinforcement with punishment?

This is the first book about lesson study for higher education. Based on the idea that the best setting in which to examine teaching is where it takes place on a daily...