Foreword. Acknowledgments.
1. Introduction.
2. Reserach Process.
3. Personal Growth.
4. Understanding and Appreciating Diversity.
5. Critical Thinking and Problem Solving.
6. Writing.
7. Quantitative Reasoning.
8. Information Technology and Literacy.
9. General Learning.
10. Summary and Last Words.
Bibliography.
Index.
Catherine Hoffman Beyer is a research scientist in the University
of Washington's Office of Educational Assessment, where she directs
the University of Washington Study of Undergraduate Learning (UW
SOUL) and assists faculty and departments as they develop learning
goals and the methods to assess them. For the last 20 years, she
has taught writing courses linked with courses across the
curriculum in the university's Interdisciplinary Writing Program,
receiving the English department?s distinguished teaching ward for
that work in 1997. She codirected a series of three writing
assessment studies for the UW and later served as dean for
assessment and institutional effectiveness at a local community
college. She received her M.A. in English from the University of
Michigan in 1970 and has taught English and writing at the high
school, community college, university, and graduate-school levels
in Michigan, Oregon and Washington. Her poetry has appeared in a
number of literary magazine as well as on Seattle city buses.
Gerald Gillmore is director emeritus of the University of
Washington's Office of Educational Assessment. He served as the
UW's coordinator of assessment from 1988 until 2001. In this
capacity, he worked with departments across the university on
assessing their curricula, developed a system of student and alumni
surveys, led statewide assessment efforts in writing and
quantitative reasoning, and represented the university at the state
level. Dr. Gillmore developed the UW's Instructional Assessment
System for collecting students' course evaluations, a system that
is currently used at more than 60 colleges across the nation, as
well as at the UW. He also developed and directed the State of
Washington academic placement testing program. Dr. Gillmore
received his Ph.D. in psychology in 1970 from Michigan State
University. His research nterests and areas in which he has
published include measurement theory, faculty evaluation, and
assessment of student learning.
Andrew T. Fisher began his work on the UW SOUL in fall quarter 2000
as an undergraduate researcher, and he was hired to continue
working with the study as a research assistant. He earned his B.A.
in the comparative history of ideas in 2001 with a thesis on
critical thinking. While an undergraduate, he began a group called
Agora to serve as a meeting place for comparative history of ideas
majors to discuss issues associated with their program and earned a
Mary Gates Leadership Grant for this work. After traveling to
Brazil and China he left the UW in 2004 to build a house with his
father, and he is currently working in San Francisco. His many
Interests include how and why people change their minds, the role
of the personal in academic learning, and conflict resolution.
There are several other findings that are equally worth noting, but would need more space than a book review to fully appreciate. Suffice it to say that if you are involved in higher education, whether you work with faculty or students, as an administrator or a teacher, this book will provide you with a window on learning that has no equal. (International Journal for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 07/08)
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