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Accountability is an important focus for nearly all-public higher education institutions. In 1997 the Washington State Legislature
mandated an accountability measure designed to encourage public universities to increase student efficiency toward graduation.
This accountability measure is assessed by a formula called the Graduation Efficiency Index. This qualitative study details
the Graduation Efficiency Index's conception and ramifications for public higher education institutions. It further examines
university administrators' perceptions of the Graduation Efficiency Index and transfer students' impact on the ability of
three public institutions to meet mandated accountability goals. We include implications for practice.
Susan Poch is the Director of the Student Advising and Learning Center at Washington State University. She holds a Ph.D. in
Education Leadership, Higher Education from Washington StateUniversity. Her research focuses on the policy and practice of
student transition. Mimi Wolverton is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her areas of research
include leadership, organizational change and organizational effectiveness. She holds an M.B.A. and Ph.D. in Education Leadership
from Arizona State University. 相似文献
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Administration for innovation in higher education 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
The paper commences from the premise that the major paradigms of administration are not appropriate to higher education. Structural approaches place too great an emphasis on the organization and its mission, subjectivist approaches fail to acknowledge the constraints and enablements of structure and the role of continuity and radical change approaches fail to provide a positive basis for administration. The paper outlines an approach to educational administration which addresses these difficulties. It is based on structuration theory together with cooperative learning theory and group work. The paper reports an investigation of an attempt to apply this approach to the administration of a program of teaching awards in an Australian university. It reports some success and some limitations.Peter Ling is engaged in education quality assurance and educational development at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He is the President of the Victorian Branch of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australia. Dr. Ling's current research is in faculty responses to educational development activities. He holds M.Ed, and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Melbourne. Lorraine Ling is Chair of the Teaching Center at LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia. The focus of her research and publication is analysis of administrative systems in education. She has wide experience in schools and in teacher education. She has engaged in educational consultancy, including faculty development, in Australia, Europe, and Asia. She holds an M.Ed, from Deakin University. 相似文献
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Qiuxian Chen Margaret Kettle Lyn May 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》2013,38(7):831-846
Formative assessment is increasingly being implemented through policy initiatives in Chinese educational contexts. As an approach to assessment, formative assessment derives many of its key principles from Western contexts, notably through the work of scholars in the UK, the USA and Australia. The question for this paper is the ways that formative assessment has been interpreted in the teaching of College English in Chinese Higher Education. The paper reports on a research study that utilised a sociocultural perspective on learning and assessment to analyse how two Chinese universities – an urban-based Key University and a regional-based Non-Key University – interpreted and enacted a China Ministry of Education policy on formative assessment in College English teaching. Of particular interest for the research were the ways in which the sociocultural conditions of the Chinese context mediated understanding of Western principles and led to their adaptation. The findings from the two universities identified some consistency in localised interpretations of formative assessment which included emphases on process and student participation. The differences related to the specific sociocultural conditions contextualising each university including geographical location, socioeconomic status, and teacher and student roles, expectations and beliefs about English. The findings illustrate the sociocultural tensions in interpreting, adapting and enacting formative assessment in Chinese College English classes and the consequent challenges to and questions about retaining the spirit of formative assessment as it was originally conceptualised. 相似文献
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In light of the widespread recognition of the enduring challenge of enhancing the learning of all students—including a growing
number of students representing diverse racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds—there has been an explosion of literature
on teaching, learning, and assessment in higher education. Notwithstanding scores of promising new ideas, individual faculty
in higher education need a dynamic and inclusive model to help them engage in a systematic and continuous process of exploring
and testing various teaching and assessment practices to ensure the learning of their students. This paper introduces a model—Teaching-for-Learning
(TFL)—developed to meet this need.
Clifton F. Conrad received his bachelor’s degree in History and his master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Kansas and his
Ph.D. in Higher Education from the University of Michigan. He is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison;
and his research focus is on college and university curricula with particular emphases on program quality, liberal education,
and teaching and learning.
Jason Johnson received his bachelor’s degree in Comparative History of Ideas and his master’s degree in Educational Leadership and Policy
Studies at the University of Washington. He is nearing completion of his Ph.D. and working as a Teaching Assistant in Higher
Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his research focuses on rhetoric in higher education.
Divya Malik Gupta received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Human Development and Family Studies from Maharaja Sayajirao University in
Gujarat, India. She is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 相似文献
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Engaging Undergraduate Students in Research Activities: Are Research Universities Doing a Better Job? 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Engaging undergraduate students in research activities has been advocated as an innovative strategy to improve American higher
education (Boyer Commission, Reinventing undergraduate education: A blueprint for America’s research universities. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Stony Brook, NY, 1998). This study compared the frequency of undergraduate
student research experiences at different types of colleges and universities from the early 1990s through 2004. The results
indicate that the frequency of student research experiences increased since 1998 at all types of institutions and that students
at research universities were not more likely than their counterparts elsewhere to have such experiences. The findings were
consistent across major fields. To live up to their claims, research universities must find additional ways to involve undergraduates
in research with faculty members.
Shouping Hu is Associate Professor of Higher Education at Florida State University. He received his M.S. degree in Economics and Ph.D.
in Higher Education from Indiana University. His research and scholarship focuses on postsecondary access and persistence,
college student experience, and higher education finance.
George D. Kuh is Chancellor’s Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University
Bloomington. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Iowa. His research focuses on the quality of undergraduate
education.
Joy Gaston Gayles is Associate Professor in Adult and Higher Education at North Carolina State University. She received her Bachelor’s degree
from Shaw University, Master’s degree from Auburn University, and Ph.D. in Higher Education from The Ohio State University.
Her research focuses on college student learning and development. 相似文献
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In response to increased student assessment and accountability concerns, colleges and universities have been called on to increase their efforts to improve the retention rates of an increasingly diverse student body. This article outlines a synergistic strategy for promoting minority student persistence through faculty renewal efforts that encourage faculty to question their cultural beliefs and academic values concerning the teaching and learning enterprise.Dr. Kay F. Norman is currently with Delaware State University where she is Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching. She also teaches graduate courses in Educational Assessment and Special Education Administration and Supervision. She holds an Ed.D. in Higher Education Administration with emphasis in Student Services from Texas Southern University. Her research interests are in student retention, assessment, and effective teaching. James Norman, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Education at Delaware State University's School of Education. He is a graduate of Ohio State University. Dr. Norman's research interest include special education monitoring and compliance issues, and behavioral management systems. 相似文献
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This article, using a variety of data from the Rowntree Research Project at the University of Lancaster, attempts to reconstruct student and staff perceptions of the teaching/learning reality of higher education, and in particular their perceptions of excellence. Ambiguities and confusions are noted in staff perceptions of excellence and important differences between staff and students in their perception of teaching/learning realities.It concludes by discussing implications for staff/student communication and for the admission of students to higher education.This article is a shortened and partly rewritten version of a paper of the same title delivered at the Third International Conference on Higher Education, University of Lancaster, September 1975. 相似文献
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The Influences of Faculty on Undergraduate Student Participation in Research and Creative Activities
Using data collected from surveys of college juniors and seniors and faculty members in related academic departments, this
study examined whether faculty teaching and research orientations, as well as faculty external funding, had any impact on
undergraduate student participation in research and creative activities. The results of the study indicated that faculty research
orientation and external funding were indeed positively related to student participation in research activities. However,
faculty members’ teaching orientation was not significant. Further analyses indicated that faculty teaching and research orientations
had different impacts on a range of research and creative activities by undergraduate students. The findings from this study
provide insight on ways of improving college teaching and learning as well as informing the development of institutional academic
policies related to faculty and undergraduate education.
Shouping Hu is Associate Professor of Higher Education at Florida State University. He received his M.S. degree in Economics and Ph.D.
in Higher Education from Indiana University. His research and scholarship focus on college access and success, student engagement,
and higher education policy.
Kathyrine Scheuch is the Deputy Director of Research and Evaluation in the Division of Community Colleges, Florida Department of Education.
She received her Ed.D. in Higher Education from Florida State University. Her research interests include undergraduate research
activities and minority student issues.
Joy Gaston Gayles is Associate Professor of Higher Education at North Carolina State University. She received her Ph.D. in Higher Education
from Ohio State University. Her research interests include the college student experience and its impact on student development
and learning. 相似文献
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Kerry J. Kennedy 《Higher Education Quarterly》1995,49(3):191-209
The purpose of this paper is to outline recent changes to higher education in Australia and assess the implications of those changes for teaching and learning in universities. Three main changes have been identified:
1. The meta-policy context that has transformed a binary system of higher education into a unified national system of universities. This has given rise to the concept of the comprehensive university accompanied by an economic rationalist approach to the funding of higher education. Issues identified are the relativities to be accorded to teaching and research in the new universities and the push for more efficient modes of teaching.
2. Institutional changes that have influenced the traditional character of universities. These changes include the politicisation of Vice-Chancellors whose peak body is now recognised by the government as the single voice of the university sector, the changing student composition of universities as a result of government policies relating to overseas students and students who have been traditionally underpresented in universities and the introduction of academic staff appraisal. An assessment is made of this broad range of changes on teaching and learning.
3. Changing conceptions of teaching are discussed with a particular emphasis on the work of Shulman and its implications for teaching in the university. 相似文献
1. The meta-policy context that has transformed a binary system of higher education into a unified national system of universities. This has given rise to the concept of the comprehensive university accompanied by an economic rationalist approach to the funding of higher education. Issues identified are the relativities to be accorded to teaching and research in the new universities and the push for more efficient modes of teaching.
2. Institutional changes that have influenced the traditional character of universities. These changes include the politicisation of Vice-Chancellors whose peak body is now recognised by the government as the single voice of the university sector, the changing student composition of universities as a result of government policies relating to overseas students and students who have been traditionally underpresented in universities and the introduction of academic staff appraisal. An assessment is made of this broad range of changes on teaching and learning.
3. Changing conceptions of teaching are discussed with a particular emphasis on the work of Shulman and its implications for teaching in the university. 相似文献
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大学教师的公仆型领导角色研究 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
"教师成为公仆型领导者"是美国新兴的教育理念。在大学教学中引入公仆型领导理念,符合当前我国大学教育的需要。大学教师应把领导者和服务者的双重身份合而为一,并以服务先行。本项研究结果表明,教师的公仆型领导行为有助于提高学生对课程的满意程度、学习意愿和信心,并有助于提升教师在学生中的声誉。研究结果为在我国大学教育中贯彻公仆型领导理念提供了实证支持。 相似文献
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Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt 《Higher Education》1987,16(1):75-94
This paper argues for the systematic development and integration of student research skills in postgraduate programmes. Case studies from Griffith University, arising from action research projects with university teachers, illustrate five different strategies: (1) The review of a postgraduate programme, identifying student problems and a gap between institutional expectations and students' needs; (2) the workshop model for developing skills in dissertation research and writing; (3) the focus on two key problem areas in the process of writing a thesis; (4) the design, implementation and evaluation of a course on Problems and Methods in Research for the beginning researcher in the social sciences as an alternative model and supplement to the single-supervisor model in postgraduate education; and (5) student metacognition and learning to do research through eliciting some changing personal constructs of research effectiveness. There has been little educational research and development in postgraduate education. This paper explores some of the issues and problems identified at Griffith University and elsewhere. Our methods may be adapted by other universities to their particular educational contexts. 相似文献
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《Higher Education Quarterly》1994,48(2):145-155
Mature Women in Higher Education Women Returning to Higher Education. Gillian Pascall and Roger Cox Anatomy of the English Department English People: the experience of teaching and learning English in British universities Bigger But Not Worse? Teaching Large Classes in Higher Education: How to Maintain Quality with Reduced Resources Improving University Teaching Rethinking University Teaching – a framework for the effective use of educational technology Diana Laurillard ‘Learning to Teach in Higher Education’ 相似文献
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高等教育正面临着"学习危机",大量的教育投入并没有带来相应的教育质量提升,学业指导作为大学教育质量的保证理应受到重视。斯坦福大学作为世界一流大学的典型,在大学生学业指导体系和制度上积累了丰富的经验。对斯坦福大学工程学院的学业指导模式进行研究,发现其学业指导体系立足大学新生,以学生手册为平台,以课程指导为核心,以个性化、多元化为特征,贯穿本科教育。研究斯坦福大学学业指导模式为其本科教育质量提供了有力的保障,可从不同角度为我国高校学业指导的改革与发展提供理念启迪和经验借鉴。 相似文献
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Lucy Spowart Rebecca Turner Deborah Shenton Pauline Kneale 《International Journal for Academic Development》2016,21(3):206-218
The status of teaching and learning is an issue those providing and supporting higher education grapple with. The UK Higher Education Academy offers accreditation aligned to the professional standards framework (PSF). The PSF contextualises the role of teaching and supporting learning, and offers a mechanism for individuals’ commitment to be recognised. Here, we present a case-study of 19 established academics who reflected on their experiences of gaining recognition through their university’s accreditation scheme. Respondents prioritised institutional structures and outcomes such as student recruitment, job security, and status as drivers for engagement. Institutional leadership was significant in driving the accreditation agenda. 相似文献
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There is increasing evidence that the pressures on British universities for greater quality and accountability, linked closely to funding, are leading to loss of quality. These governmental pressures, exerted through the Funding Councils, are wholly different from those applied in a quite separate way from another government source, the Employment Department. This article analyses the nature and effects of the two kinds of pressures in terms of change theory. This also demonstrates that the observed effects were not only largely predictable but to a substantial extent were predicted, and warns of the danger that the resulting deleterious effects may become irreversible.Lewis Elton obtained an M.A. in Mathematics at Cambridge University and a B.Sc. in Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics at the University of London. He is a Further and Higher Education Adviser to the UK Employment Department and Emeritus Professor of Higher Education at the University of Surrey. His special interests are in the improvement of university teaching and learning; staff development; distance learning; and organizational change in higher education. Pat Cryer obtained a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Physics at the University of Exeter and a Ph.D. in Educational Development at the University of Surrey. She has recently resigned as Professional Adviser of the UK Universities' Staff Development Unit and is now a Consultant in Higher Education. Her special interests are in issues of quality; staff development; and teaching large classes.The opinions expressed in this paper are our own and do not commit the Employment Department. 相似文献
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Higher education's rapid expansion is paired with growing social expectations of its benefits and concern on its teaching quality. In response to these, institutional/national surveys based on an array of theories are widely used in universities for quality assurance, enhancement, and benchmarking. This paper reviews three major types of instruments used for such purposes, including two distinct schools of theory that have guided the development of such assessment in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom and then spread to the other parts of the world. The theories shaping the development of the two instruments, the dimensions assessed, and the challenges and criticisms involved when using such instruments for quality assurance are each discussed. This review concludes with a call for comparisons of different lines of research in this area, discussions on student learning experience that include more diverse characterizations of student experience across different educational contexts, development of tools to enable distributed leadership among teachers, and encouragement of students as partners for quality enhancement in higher education. 相似文献
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This qualitative study explores the process of implementing effective online teaching practices through interviews with thirty exemplary instructors. Emergent themes include providing students with constructive feedback, fostering interaction and involvement, facilitating student learning, and maintaining instructor presence and organization. Analyses of the findings and implications for online instruction are presented.An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education.Cassandra C. Lewis is a research assistant at the University of Maryland University College. She is also a doctoral candidate in the department of Education Policy and Leadership at the University of Maryland, College Park. Husein Abdul-Hamid is Associate Provost and Executive Director of the Office of Evaluation, Research, and Grants at the University of Maryland University College. He holds a Ph.D. in Statistics from American University. 相似文献
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Brigitte Berendt 《Higher Education in Europe》1998,23(3):317-329
This article opens with a survey of developments indicative of the shift from teaching to learning. It then surveys the situation in the 1990s and answers questions relevant to the encouragement of effective teaching. It continues by dealing with the question of how to encourage the shift from teaching to learning by means of staff development programmes for higher education teaching personnel. The author presents successful concepts that she developed in the context of a pilot study undertaken between 1975 and 1979. She applied them within workshops not only in her own university but in numerous eastern European and African universities and at the University of the Philippines in 1997 and 1998. A final section summarizes some perspectives for the UNESCO World Conference on Higher Education: Higher Education in the Twenty‐First Century‐‐"Vision and Action' that was held in Paris from 5 to 9 October 1998. 相似文献
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Christine Asmar 《International Journal for Academic Development》2013,18(1):18-30
Challenges confronting those who seek to bring about change within large organizations include the need to engage with the values and beliefs held by those involved. In universities with academic cultures that have traditionally lauded and rewarded disciplinary research, attempts to enhance the status and effectiveness of teaching and learning practices must take account of the ongoing power of the research culture. In Australia and elsewhere, prestigious research-extensive 1 universities are now seriously committed to improving the educational experience of student learners from their first year on campus. The focus on teaching and learning is buttressed by another aspect of cultural change - one which values the scholarship of teaching alongside traditional disciplinary research. To the need to re-emphasize teaching, and the need to value that teaching as a scholarly, research-based activity is added a third dimension of change - a focus on the student rather than the teacher. This paper will utilize Fullan's (1991) model for educational change in outlining strategies for change within a large research-extensive university in Australia. While it is too early to ascertain whether those strategies have effectively enhanced student learning, indications are that the strategies have had an impact on the beliefs, behaviour and teaching practice of academic staff. It is suggested that the culture of a university can and will shift given the right conditions for institutional change. 相似文献