Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning MorePrinceton University Press, 2006 - Počet stran: 413 Drawing on a large body of empirical evidence, former Harvard President Derek Bok examines how much progress college students actually make toward widely accepted goals of undergraduate education. His conclusions are sobering. Although most students make gains in many important respects, they improve much less than they should in such important areas as writing, critical thinking, quantitative skills, and moral reasoning. Large majorities of college seniors do not feel that they have made substantial progress in speaking a foreign language, acquiring cultural and aesthetic interests, or learning what they need to know to become active and informed citizens. Overall, despite their vastly increased resources, more powerful technology, and hundreds of new courses, colleges cannot be confident that students are learning more than they did fifty years ago. |
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... graduate institutions . Their books are mainly polemics , con- taining little that is positive about the work of universities or the professors who teach there . Among their complaints , moreover , certain common themes recur that seem ...
... graduate students in small sections . Lost in the crowd , many undergraduates fin- ish college without knowing a single faculty member well enough to ask for a letter of recommendation . Many people were surprised that books about ...
... graduate education in its current form but are merely anx- ious for an impressive credential now that a college ... graduates shows that they are remarkably pleased with their college years . Americans may dislike their government and ...
... graduate without being able to write well enough to satisfy their employers . Many cannot reason clearly or perform ... graduates receiving a degree are able to speak or read a foreign language . Most have never taken a course in quanti ...
... graduate education . What emerges is a clearer picture of how students develop in college together with an agenda for reform quite unlike the ones advanced by either the well- known critics of universities or the faculty committees that ...
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The Evolution of American Colleges | 11 |
Faculty Attitudes toward Undergraduate Education | 31 |
Purposes | 58 |
Learning to Communicate | 82 |
Learning to Think | 109 |
Building Character | 146 |
Preparation for Citizenship | 172 |
Living with Diversity | 194 |
Preparing for a Global Society | 225 |
Acquiring Broader Interests | 255 |
Preparing for a Career | 281 |
Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education | 310 |
Notes | 345 |
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