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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... Undergraduate Education 31 3 Purposes 58 4 Learning to Communicate 82 5 Learning to Think 109 6 Building Character 146 7 Preparation for Citizenship 172 8 Living with Diversity 194 9 Preparing for a Global Society 225 10 Acquiring ...
... education . Countless studies have found that college students , overall , achieve significant gains in critical ... undergraduate education . Far from it . Despite the favorable opinions of undergraduates and alumni , a closer look at ...
... undergraduate programs . Throughout undergraduate education , a great wall separates the world of research from the world of practice - even though the practitioners involved are professors , trained in research , who would seem ideally ...
... education . What emerges is a clearer picture of how students develop in ... undergraduate programs . The good news is that most of the serious ... education despite the diversity of the colleges that provide it . 1 THE EVOLUTION OF ...
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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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