Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning MorePrinceton University Press, 2006 - 413 頁 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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... learning more / Derek Bok . p . cm . Includes index . ISBN - 13 : 978-0-691-12596-1 ( hardcover : alk . paper ) ISBN - 10 : 0-691-12596-1 ( hardcover : alk . paper ) 1. Education , Higher - Aims and objectives - United States . 2 ...
... higher education would eventually suffer the same fate . They were soon proved right . Within a few years , Secretary of Education William Bennett and Lynne Cheney , head of the Na- tional Endowment for the Humanities , issued sharp ...
A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More Derek ... education , such as Profscam and The Closing of the American Mind , could ... high public officials will do the same . If col- leges miseducate their ...
... higher education in other advanced countries has suffered from low faculty salaries , overcrowded conditions , in- adequate facilities , and excessive state control . Educators in the United States have grown accustomed to being able to ...
... higher education and the teaching and learning it provides . To be sure , professors and academic leaders must keep a proper perspective . It is especially im- portant to bear in mind all the purposes universities serve and to resist ...
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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 |