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Direct linkBritton, Willoughby B.; Brown, Anne-Catharine; Kaplan, Christopher T.; Goldman, Roberta E.; DeLuca, Marie; Rojiani, Rahil; Reis, Harry; Xi, Mandy; Chou, Jonathan C.; McKenna, Faye; Hitchcock, Peter; Rocha, Tomas A.; Himmelfarb, Josh; Margolis, David M.; Niles, Halsey F.; Eckert, Allison M.; Frank, Tana – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2013
Contemplative practices, which engage the subjective or "first-person" perspective, are being incorporated into systems of higher education that have traditionally relied on didactic or "third-person" approaches (Dederer 2007; Kroll 2010; Repetti 2010; Roth 2006; Shapiro, Brown, and Astin 2011; Smith 2006; Zajonc 2006). The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Metacognition
Achacoso, Michelle V. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2004
Instructors can help students improve their metacognitive awareness and future exam performance by analyzing an exam after it has been taken. (Contains 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Metacognition, College Students, College Faculty, Management Systems
Kurz, Lisa; Banta, Trudy W. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2004
This chapter outlines the understanding gained when working with faculty to learn about assessment, to develop a plan, and to support them as they carry out and interpret their assessments. (Contains 1 table and 1 exhibit.)
Descriptors: Exhibits, Faculty Development, Intellectual Disciplines, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedRay, Terry T. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1996
Four terms central to the dialog about ethics are defined and differentiated: ethics; morality; justice; and law. Several problems in understanding the terms are identified, including differences between the classical and current meanings, common but inappropriate usages, confusion of one term for another, and merging of terms in common usage.…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Definitions
Bothell, Timothy W.; Henderson, Tom – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2003
This chapter provides a case study comparing the costs of online student ratings of instruction with those of traditional paper-pencil student ratings. The case study is derived from Brigham Young University's (BYU) experience in creating and implementing a new online student rating system. Some of the information on costs was supplemented by data…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Response Rates (Questionnaires)
Peer reviewedEntwistle, Noel; Tait, Hilary – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1995
Drawing on a number of studies of college student learning, this review concludes that students in different disciplines develop characteristic ways of learning based on their perceptions of what is required in their academic work. Within a discipline, effective learning involves an interplay between the characteristics of the student and the…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedFranklin, Jennifer; Theall, Michael – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1995
In a study using student rating data from over 8,000 course sections in a large university, disciplinary differences and the value students placed on the time they spent preparing for class are correlated with students' evaluations of teaching. Implications for faculty promotion and tenure policy, instructional improvement, and further research…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Faculty, College Instruction, College Students
Peer reviewedHardiman, Rita; Jackson, Bailey W. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1992
A racial identity development model for African-American and white college students is presented. It consists of five developmental stages (naive, acceptance, resistance, redefinition, internalization) and separate descriptions of the nature of each stage for African Americans and whites. Implications for teaching and administration are discussed.…
Descriptors: Black Students, Classroom Environment, College Environment, College Instruction
McGhee, Debbie E.; Lowell, Nana – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2003
This study compares mean ratings, inter-rater reliabilities, and the factor structure of items for online and paper student-rating forms from the University of Washington's Instructional Assessment System. (Contains 3 figures and 2 tables.)
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Factor Structure, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Test Items
Peer reviewedNoronha, June – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1992
Examination of fundamental differences between the fields of international and multicultural education also reveals some commonalities, areas for collaboration, and parallel strategies for teaching and working with culturally diverse and foreign students. Strengthening alliances among the fields and expanding discussion can assist in long-term…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Classroom Techniques, College Faculty, College Instruction
