Description: Our Underachieving Colleges : A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More, Paperback by Bok, Derek Curtis, ISBN 0691136181, ISBN-13 9780691136189, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US 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. Looking further, Bok finds that many important college courses are left to the least experienced teachers and that most professors continue to teach in ways that have proven to be less effective than other available methods. In reviewing their educational programs, however, faculties typically ignore this evidence. Instead, they spend most of their time discussing what courses to require, although the lasting impact of college will almost certainly depend much more on how the courses are taught. In his s final chapter, Bok describes the changes that faculties and academic leaders can make to help students accomplish more. Without ignoring the contributions that America's colleges have made, Bok delivers a powerful critique--one that educators will ignore at their peril.
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Book Title: Our Underachieving Colleges : A Candid Look at How Much Students
Number of Pages: 440 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Our Underachieving Colleges : A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More - New Edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Subject: Educational Policy & Reform / General, Higher, Counseling / Academic Development
Publication Year: 2008
Item Height: 1.2 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 21 Oz
Author: Derek Bok
Subject Area: Education
Item Length: 9.1 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Series: The William G. Bowen Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
