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  • Breakthroughs in College Reading

    The Promises and Tensions of Disciplinary Reading Apprenticeships

    Edited by Nika Hogan, Rebecca Kersnar, Nelson Graff ...
    How do we help college students become independent learners in their disciplines? In this collection, the editors and contributors argue that we do so by supporting students in learning from texts, which entails recognizing reading as a problem-solving process, supporting students to take responsibility for the intellectual work in their classes, and creating strong classroom communities that help ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Advancing Assessment for Student Success

    Supporting Learning by Creating Connections Across Assessment, Teaching, Curriculum, and Cocurriculum in Collaboration With Our Colleagues and Our Students

    by Amy Driscoll, Swarup Wood, Dan Shapiro, Nelson Graff ...
    This book is about student success and how to support and improve it. It takes as its point of departure that we--as faculty, assessment directors, student affairs professionals, and staff--reflect together in a purposeful and informed way about how our teaching, curricula, the co-curriculum, and assessment work in concert to support and improve student learning and success. It also requires that ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Reading across the Disciplines

    by Joyce Tang Boyland, M. Soledad Caballero, Yvonne Davila, Heather C. Easterling, John Eliason, Nelson Graff, Rosemary Green, Neela Griffiths, Rachel Henry, Pat Hutchings, Rebecca Kersnar, Aimee Knupsky, Ryne Leuzinger, Margaret Mackey, Elizabeth Marquis, Trent W. Maurer, Brett McCollum, Layne A. Morsch, Daniel Shapiro, Catelyn Shipp, Dana Statton Thompson, Kris Vasquez, Jakob T. Zehms, Angela Zito, Jordan R. Donovan ...
    Series series Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
    Reading Across the Disciplines offers a collection of twelve essays detailing a range of approaches to dealing with students' reading needs at the college level. Transforming reading in higher education requires more than individual faculty members working on SoTL projects in their particular fields. Teachers need to consider reading across the disciplines.In this collection, authors from ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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    An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses

    by L. Dee Fink ...
    “Dee Fink challenges our conventional assumptions and practices and offers an insightful approach to expanding our learning goals, making higher education more meaningful. This is a gem of a book that every college teacher should read.”—Ken Bain, author, What the Best College Students DoSince the original publication of L. Dee Fink’s Creating Significant Learning Experiences, higher education has ... Read more

    $37.00 USD

  • Naming What We Know, Classroom Edition

    Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies

    Edited by Linda Adler-Kassner, Elizabeth Wardle ...
    Naming What We Know, Classroom Edition examines the core principles of knowledge in the discipline of writing studies, using the lens of “threshold concepts”—concepts that are critical for epistemological participation in a discipline. This edition focuses on the working definitions of thirty-seven threshold concepts that run throughout the research, teaching, assessment, and public work in ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Advancing Youth Work

    Current Trends, Critical Questions

    Edited by Dana Fusco ...
    This path-breaking book brings together an international list of contributors to collectively articulate a vision for the field of youth work, sharing what they have learned from decades of experience in the training and education of youth workers. Carefully designed evaluation and research studies have legitimized the learning potential of youth programs and non-school organizations over the last ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Handbook of Scholarly Writing and Publishing

    by Tonette S. Rocco, Timothy Gary Hatcher ...
    Focusing on writing for publication, The Handbook of Scholarly Writing and Publishing discusses the components of a manuscript, types of manuscripts, and the submission process. It shows how to craft scholarly papers and other writing suitable for submission to academic journals. The handbook covers how to develop writing skills by offering guidance on becoming an excellent manuscript reviewer and ... Read more

    $34.00 USD

  • Higher Education Assessments

    Leadership Matters

    by Raymond Barclay, Bryan D. Bradley, Peter J. Gray, Coral Hanson, Trav D. Johnson, Jillian Kinzie, Thomas E. Miller, John Muffo, Danny Olsen, Russell T. Osguthorpe, John H. Schuh, Kay H. Smith, Trudy Bers, Vasti Torres ...
    Series series The ACE Series on Higher Education
    Higher Education Assessments: Leadership Matters reflects the work of a select group of researchers, scholars, and practitioners in higher education assessment with the goal of identifying strategies that assist senior campus leaders as they respond to the challenges of a changing economic landscape and political climate. The contributors, experts in the field, bring to the forefront key issues ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Teaching Matters Most

    A School Leader’s Guide to Improving Classroom Instruction

    by Thomas M. McCann, Alan C. Jones, Gail A. Aronoff ...
    A laser-beam focus on improving instruction to improve learningSaying "teaching matters most" is easy, and seems obvious. Making it the top priority for school leaders and staff is not so easy—in fact, it′s messy. If we want to change how students write, compute, and think, then teachers must change how they teach. They must transform the old "assign-and-assess" model into engaging, compassionate, ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Participatory Design for Learning

    Perspectives from Practice and Research

    Edited by Betsy DiSalvo, Jason Yip, Elizabeth Bonsignore, Carl DiSalvo ...
    Participatory Design is a field of research and design that actively engages stakeholders in the processes of design in order to better conceptualize and create tools, environments, and systems that serve those stakeholders. In Participatory Design for Learning: Perspectives from Practice and Research, contributors from across the fields of the learning sciences and design articulate an inclusive ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Handbook of Professional Development in Education

    Successful Models and Practices, PreK-12

    Edited by Linda E. Martin, EdD, Sherry Kragler, PhD, Diana J. Quatroche, PhD, Kathryn L. Bauserman, PhD ...
    This comprehensive handbook synthesizes the best current knowledge on teacher professional development (PD) and addresses practical issues in implementation. Leading authorities describe innovative practices that are being used in schools, emphasizing the value of PD that is instructive, reflective, active, collaborative, and substantive. Strategies for creating, measuring, and sustaining ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

  • Increasing Persistence

    Research-based Strategies for College Student Success

    by Wesley R. Habley, Jennifer L. Bloom, Steve Robbins ...
    INCREASING PERSISTENCE"Of all the books addressing the puzzle of student success and persistence, I found this one to be the most helpful and believe it will be extremely useful to faculty and staff attempting to promote student success. The authors solidly ground their work in empirical research, and do a brilliant job providing both an overview of the relevant literature as well as research ... Read more

    $50.00 USD