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Classroom Research and Program Accountability: A Match Made in Heaven?
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Tebo-Messina, Margaret; Van Aller, Chris – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1998
Winthrop University (South Carolina) has linked classroom research with program accountability in its Learning Research Project, which focuses on general education. The pilot and implementation phases of the project are described, noting problems, frustrations, and rewards in each. The experiment has convinced administration and faculty that…
Descriptors: Accountability, Classroom Research, College Instruction, Formative Evaluation
A Minnesota Story: A System Approach to Classroom Assessment and Research.
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Stack, Connie; Peterson, Joel – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1998
Classroom assessment and classroom research in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system is traced to 1989 when the terms entered the community-college faculty-development vocabulary. They are now household words among the 500 faculty participating regularly in faculty development. Problems encountered and positive results are…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, College Faculty, College Instruction, Community Colleges
College Faculty as Educational Researchers: Discipline-Focused Studies of Student Motivation and Self-Regulated Learning.
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Karabenick, Stuart A.; Collins-Eaglin, Jan – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1995
A faculty development program that encourages faculty from different disciplines to engage in research on student cognition, motivation, and self-regulated learning in their own classrooms teaches theory as well as practice. The program has been well received by faculty and has also produced useful results for academic departments and the…
Descriptors: Action Research, Classroom Research, College Faculty, Faculty Development