January 15, 2009
Faculty Inquiry at Cerritos College (Frank Mixson and Jan Connal)
As part of the Cerritos College Faculty Inquiry project (SPECC), participating faculty began a process of thinking deeply about their teaching practices within a selected developmental class. Throughout the semester, participating faculty researchers were mentored in a sequence of guided reflections by faculty outside their [...]
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Developing Questions, Faculty Inquiry Groups (FIG), Faculty Portfolios |
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January 15, 2009
A Carnegie Perspectives repost
By Pat Hutchings
The author of this month’s Carnegie Perspectives is Pat Hutchings. Pat is Carnegie’s vice president, and among her many responsibilities is her deep involvement in Strengthening Pre-collegiate Education in Community Colleges (SPECC), a joint initiative of Carnegie and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to address basic skills education in [...]
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Carnegie Perspectives, Faculty Inquiry Groups (FIG) |
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January 15, 2009
A Carnegie Perspectives repost
By Pat Hutchings and Lee Shulman
It’s hard to find a campus in these days of number crunching and accountability that doesn’t have some kind of office of institutional research. These offices vary a lot, with large research universities supporting a staff of a dozen or more, and small colleges sometimes relying on [...]
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Carnegie Perspectives, Developing Questions |
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January 15, 2009
A Carnegie Perspectives repost
By Molly Breen
Every year hundreds of thousands of students begin their higher education in community colleges. Of course, these institutions also bring in large numbers of new faculty. For both groups, students and faculty alike, there are plenty of challenges to go around.
Imagine yourself in the shoes of a newly hired instructor [...]
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Carnegie Perspectives, Developing Questions, Faculty Portfolios, Video Evidence |
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January 15, 2009
A Carnegie Perspectives repost
By Rose Asera
If I asked you—as an educated adult—what you remember about learning to read or to do basic arithmetic, you might recall some fleeting images: being read to by a parent or studying a book with big letters and pictures at your school desk. But by now these skills have become [...]
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Carnegie Perspectives, Faculty Inquiry Groups (FIG), Student Voice |
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August 20, 2008
Once you have gathered evidence and data, it is sometimes a challenge to make sense of what you are seeing. Often, student learning evidence can add to complexity or confusion by giving you too much data; or it can be difficult to interpret in part because the reasons for student confusion might be opaque or [...]
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Teaching Problem Solving, Think Alouds, Video Evidence |
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