Grab those paddles. Charge 300. Clear -Ouch - Now how do you feel? -Great -

Humor can be used as a systematic teaching or assessment tool in your classroom and course Web site. It can shock students to attention and bring deadly, boring course content to life. Since some students have the attention span of goat cheese, we need to find creative online and offline techniques to hook them, engage their emotions, and focus their minds and eyeballs on learning.

This book offers numerous techniques on how to effectively use humor in lectures and in-class activities,...

Professors and students seem to come from different planets (or candy bars). Barriers frequently exist that impede their communication, such as age, income and cholesterol level.

Humor can break down these barriers so that professors can better connect with their students and other audiences. It can be used as a teaching tool to facilitate learning. Ron Berk describes and illustrates a wide variety of techniques that can be integrated systematically into instruction and professional presentations. For professors who consider themselves as -jocularly arthritic-, this book moreover...

* Student evaluations of college teachers: perhaps the most contentious issue on campus
* This book offers a more balanced approach
* Evaluation affects pay, promotion and tenure, so of intense interest to all faculty
* Major academic marketing and publicity
* Combines original research with Berk's signature wacky humor

To many college professors the words -student evaluations- trigger mental images of the shower scene from Psycho, with those bloodcurdling screams. They're thinking: -Why not just whack me now, rather than wait to see those ratings again.-

* Student evaluations of college teachers: perhaps the most contentious issue on campus
* This book offers a more balanced approach
* Evalua...

ATTENTION: ALL FACULTY & ADMINISTRATORS
-Another book on student ratings? Are you kidding me?- -Nope, but this one is REALLY different.-

Another review of the research or step-by-step on how to develop and interpret rating scales? NOT (Berk did that with Thirteen Strategies)

Designed to solve YOUR problems, conflicts, and confusion about how to evaluate teaching. Written expressly for YOU with Berk's signature sense of humor.

FLASHPOINT: a critical stage in a process, trouble spot, contentious issue, volatile hot button, or lowest temperature at which...

ATTENTION: ALL FACULTY & ADMINISTRATORS
-Another book on student ratings? Are you kidding me?- -Nope, but this one is REALLY different.-

Another review of the research or step-by-step on how to develop and interpret rating scales? NOT (Berk did that with Thirteen Strategies)

Designed to solve YOUR problems, conflicts, and confusion about how to evaluate teaching. Written expressly for YOU with Berk's signature sense of humor.

FLASHPOINT: a critical stage in a process, trouble spot, contentious issue, volatile hot button, or lowest temperature at which...