Our Underachieving Colleges : : A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More - New Edition / / Derek Bok.

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 improv...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
VerfasserIn:
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2008
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:The William G. Bowen Series ; 50
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
LEADER 04388nam a22006615i 4500
001 9781400831333
003 DE-B1597
005 20190620043233.0
006 m|||||o||d||||||||
007 cr || ||||||||
008 190620s2009 nju fo d z eng d
020 |a 9781400831333 
024 7 |a 10.1515/9781400831333  |2 doi 
035 |a (DE-B1597)528462 
035 |a (OCoLC)1105882683 
040 |a DE-B1597  |b eng  |c DE-B1597  |e rda 
041 0 |a eng 
044 |a nju  |c US-NJ 
050 4 |a LB2322.2 
072 7 |a EDU015000  |2 bisacsh 
082 0 4 |a 378.73 
100 1 |a Bok, Derek,   |e author. 
245 1 0 |a Our Underachieving Colleges :  |b A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More - New Edition /  |c Derek Bok. 
264 1 |a Princeton, NJ :   |b Princeton University Press,   |c [2009] 
264 4 |c ©2008 
300 |a 1 online resource 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a computer  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a online resource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
347 |a text file  |b PDF  |2 rda 
490 0 |a The William G. Bowen Series ;  |v 50 
505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t CONTENTS --   |t ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --   |t INTRODUCTION --   |t 1. The Evolution of American Colleges --   |t 2. Faculty Attitudes toward Undergraduate Education --   |t 3. Purposes --   |t 4. Learning to Communicate --   |t 5. Learning to Think --   |t 6. Building Character --   |t 7. Preparation for Citizenship --   |t 8. Living with Diversity --   |t 9. Preparing for a Global Society --   |t 10. Acquiring Broader Interests --   |t 11. Preparing for a Career --   |t 12. Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education --   |t Afterword to the Paperback Edition --   |t Notes --   |t Index 
520 |a 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 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. 
530 |a Issued also in print. 
538 |a Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 
546 |a In English. 
588 0 |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Jun 2019) 
650 0 |a Academic achievement -- United States. 
650 0 |a Academic achievement  |z United States. 
650 0 |a Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- United States. 
650 0 |a Education, Higher  |x Aims and objectives  |z United States. 
650 7 |a EDUCATION / Higher.  |2 bisacsh 
776 0 |c print  |z 9780691136189 
856 4 0 |u https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400831333?locatt=mode:legacy 
856 4 2 |3 Cover  |u https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400831333.jpg 
912 |a EBA_BACKALL 
912 |a EBA_CL_SN 
912 |a EBA_EBACKALL 
912 |a EBA_EBKALL 
912 |a EBA_ECL_SN 
912 |a EBA_EEBKALL 
912 |a EBA_ESSHALL 
912 |a EBA_PPALL 
912 |a EBA_SSHALL 
912 |a GBV-deGruyter-alles 
912 |a PDA14ALL 
912 |a PDA1ALL 
912 |a PDA5EBK