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Section V: Designing Effective Courses, Assignments And Activities Jan 1997

Section V: Designing Effective Courses, Assignments And Activities

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

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Teaching Awards: The Problem Of Assessing Their Impact, Nancy Van Note Chism, Borbala L. Szabo Jan 1997

Teaching Awards: The Problem Of Assessing Their Impact, Nancy Van Note Chism, Borbala L. Szabo

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Although teaching awards are a popular approach to the reward and improvement of teaching, their impact has not been studied extensively. The studies that have been done find that they are motivational and affirming, but extensive, clear effects on teaching improvement have not been documented. Part of the difficulty in studying effects of awards involves goal complexity and vagueness. Suggested ways of studying effects begin with goals and employ a variety of approaches, ranging from interviews and surveys to document analysis.

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Wac Revisited: An Overlooked Model For Transformative Faculty Development, James S. Laughlin Jan 1997

Wac Revisited: An Overlooked Model For Transformative Faculty Development, James S. Laughlin

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Recently, higher education specialists have called for new faculty development initiatives, claiming current faculty development efforts need to go beyond a reductive "teaching tips" approach to consider transformative practices aimed at improving learning. While such critiques are valuable, they tend to overlook one mode of development that has had undeniable success in initiating significant individual and institutional transformations in the realms of teaching and learning. Over the past two decades, the faculty workshop in writing across the curriculum (WAC) has become a major part of successful WAC programs across the country. This article discusses how, at their best, such workshops …

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Teaching Improvement Consultation For Teaching On Television, Joyce Povlacs Lunde, Myra S. Wilhite Jan 1997

Teaching Improvement Consultation For Teaching On Television, Joyce Povlacs Lunde, Myra S. Wilhite

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Instructional consultants have traditionally offered individual consultation to faculty members on their campuses to improve teaching and learning. This kind of consultation to improve teaching is also valuable for those teaching on television, but consultants may need to prepare themselves in learning technologies and distance education in order to help faculty offering instruction via television. In addition, the phases of initial interview, data-gathering, data feedback, implementation, and evaluation, which constitute a process often used to improve teaching, need to be expanded to address teaching over television.

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Section Ii: Faculty Development Program Models Jan 1997

Section Ii: Faculty Development Program Models

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

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Long-Term Patterns In A Mentoring Program For Junior Faculty: Recommendations For Practice, Milton D. Cox Jan 1997

Long-Term Patterns In A Mentoring Program For Junior Faculty: Recommendations For Practice, Milton D. Cox

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Faculty developers believe mentoring programs are beneficial for new and junior faculty. Although there are reports on the early years of these programs, few have existed for more than 15 years. This article reports on a junior faculty program in place for 18 years with the same goals, format, and activities. The endurance of its mentoring component, with continuing support of faculty, former mentors and protégés, and administrators, is a measure of its success. Mentoring patterns relative to gender, mentor repetition, protégés who later mentor, and multidisciplinarity within pairings may be of assistance and encouragement to anyone initiating or continuing …

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University Professors At Mid-Life: Being A Part Of ... But Feeling Apart, Irene E. Karpiak Jan 1997

University Professors At Mid-Life: Being A Part Of ... But Feeling Apart, Irene E. Karpiak

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

This article explores the experiences of mid-career and older faculty members in higher education through a qualitative study of 20 associate professors (15 men and 5 women) between the ages of 41 and 59 at a Canadian university. In non-directive interviews, "graying" professors discussed their satisfactions and struggles, not only in relation to their students and their academic work, but also in relation to the whole university and its administration. An emergent schema is presented that identifies four attitudes characteristic of this group of professors: Meaning, Malaise, Marginality, and Mattering.

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Helping Faculty Design Assignment-Centered Courses, Barbara E. Walvoord, John R. Breihan Jan 1997

Helping Faculty Design Assignment-Centered Courses, Barbara E. Walvoord, John R. Breihan

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Faculty developers must help faculty shift from a teaching paradigm to a learning paradigm. Workshops that help faculty plan the "assignment-centered" course are a productive approach to that challenge. This article shows faculty developers how to plan and lead such a workshop. Research suggests that faculty often focus on content and coverage in their course planning. To combat this tendency, the workshop leads faculty through the course-planning process. In the workshop, faculty first develop learning objectives, then plan the assignments and exams that will both teach and test the essential skills and knowledge of the course. Then faculty choose and …

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Ua1b4 1997 Faculty Awards, Western Kentucky University Jan 1997

Ua1b4 1997 Faculty Awards, Western Kentucky University

WKU Archives Records

Program for 1997 WKU faculty awards.

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Ua21/1 Access & Opportunities, Wku Equal Opportunity / 504 / Ada Compliance Jan 1997

Ua21/1 Access & Opportunities, Wku Equal Opportunity / 504 / Ada Compliance

WKU Archives Records

This publication is meant to be a key resource for students with disabilities who are attending Western Kentucky University. This guidebook contains valuable information that will direct students to the tools and resources necessary to gain access to programs and services at the University.

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Ua56/1 Fact Book, Wku Institutional Research Jan 1997

Ua56/1 Fact Book, Wku Institutional Research

WKU Archives Records

Statistical and demographic profile of WKU.

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Faculty Senate Minutes-1997 Jan 1997

Faculty Senate Minutes-1997

Faculty Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

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Faculty Senate Librarian's Report-1997, Georgia Southern University Jan 1997

Faculty Senate Librarian's Report-1997, Georgia Southern University

Faculty Senate Librarian's Reports

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Faculty Senate Minutes October 20 Discussion On Calendar, Georgia Southern University Jan 1997

Faculty Senate Minutes October 20 Discussion On Calendar, Georgia Southern University

Faculty Senate Index

No abstract provided.

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Intended And Unintended Overconsumption Of Physical, Spacial, And Temporal Resources., Carin Herlocker, Scott Allison, John D. Foubert, James Beggan Dec 1996

Intended And Unintended Overconsumption Of Physical, Spacial, And Temporal Resources., Carin Herlocker, Scott Allison, John D. Foubert, James Beggan

Scott T. Allison

Two studies explored perceptual biases on how resources are shared among groups of people. Intentional and unintentional processes were uncovered.

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Effects Of A Sexual Assault Peer Education Program On Men's Belief In Rape Myths., John D. Foubert, Kenneth A. Marriott Dec 1996

Effects Of A Sexual Assault Peer Education Program On Men's Belief In Rape Myths., John D. Foubert, Kenneth A. Marriott

John D. Foubert

An all-male sexual assault peer education program was shown to lead to a decline in rape myth acceptance for two months among fraternity men.

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Intended And Unintended Overconsumption Of Physical, Spacial, And Temporal Resources., Carin Herlocker, Scott Allison, John D. Foubert, James Beggan Dec 1996

Intended And Unintended Overconsumption Of Physical, Spacial, And Temporal Resources., Carin Herlocker, Scott Allison, John D. Foubert, James Beggan

John D. Foubert

Two studies explored perceptual biases on how resources are shared among groups of people. Intentional and unintentional processes were uncovered.

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