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Marcy, Mary B. – Liberal Education, 2010
As the leader of the nation's only campus dedicated exclusively to early college, the author heads an institution that ensures students graduate sooner than the national average. As an academic who pursued her graduate work at Oxford University--an institution that confers most of its undergraduate degrees in three years--the author has had direct…
Descriptors: Colleges, Educational Objectives, Liberal Arts, Social Development

Harris, John; Hurst, Patricia – Change, 1972
Despite the belief that college-going is an intellectual process by which people become more knowledgeable, evidence of this remains sketchy. (Author/HS)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy

Meacham, Jack – Liberal Education, 2003
Introduces the articles in the theme issue, exploring their contribution to the understanding of college students' stages of intellectual development and how college instruction should respond. (EV)
Descriptors: College Instruction, College Students, Educational Objectives, Higher Education

Knefelkamp, L. Lee – Liberal Education, 2003
Introduces William Perry's work on the stages of intellectual and ethical development and asserts the importance of professors linking students' intellectual development with their pedagogy. (EV)
Descriptors: College Instruction, College Students, Developmental Stages, Educational Objectives

Moshman, David – Liberal Education, 2003
Asserts that liberal education has the promotion of intellectual development as a primary goal, and that to encourage intellectual progress, a context of intellectual freedom is necessary. Offers a set of principles of academic freedom that it suggests are foundational to the promotion of intellectual development. (EV)
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, College Instruction, College Students, Educational Objectives
Schmidt, Janet A. – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1985
This study was designed to determine whether age or education had the greatest impact on the intellectual development of college students of traditional and nontraditional ages. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Students, Educational Objectives, Higher Education

Kuhn, Deanna – Liberal Education, 2003
Asserts the importance of developing in students an intrinsic valuing of intellectual activities as the firmest basis for sustaining intellectual motivation. Discusses how to develop in students an understanding of what it means to learn and to know, including a movement up the levels of epistemological understanding from realist to evaluativist.…
Descriptors: College Instruction, College Students, Developmental Stages, Educational Objectives

Schwartz, Marc S.; Fischer, Kurt W. – Liberal Education, 2003
Explores the tension between passive and active learning among master's degree students working on their teaching certificate in science. Emphasizes the developmental nature of learning and that constructionist pedagogies need to be clearly integrated in university courses, especially those focused on teaching. (EV)
Descriptors: College Instruction, College Students, Constructivism (Learning), Developmental Stages
Warren, Jonathan R. – 1979
The concept of general education, its specific goals, and its role in the college curriculum are discussed. The goals of general education appear to center around teaching students to think analytically and to synthesize ideas into a general understanding. It is suggested, however, that these objectives tend to get lost in the specifics of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, College Students, Conference Reports
Peterson, Richard E. – 1971
This paper discusses intellectual competence and ways in which to define, measure and use this concept in evaluating college effectiveness. Intellectual competence is divided into two categories: academic mastery and intellectual resourcefulness, with evaluation methods suggested for each. (CK)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Colleges, Concept Formation
Erdynast, Albert – 1981
Connections between structural-developmental psychology and field experience education are addressed. In addition to summarizing principles of structural-developmental psychology and relevant research findings, a comprehensive view of individual development is related to the philosophical aims of higher education, and developmental and dualistic…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Aesthetic Values, College Students, Developmental Psychology
Azima, Kiavash; Henry, Rebecca – 1980
The essentials of Piaget's theory and its application to teaching at the college level are described as part of the Learning and Evaluation Service workshop, Teaching Students to Reason, offered at Michigan State University. Objectives are to enable the teacher to: (1) diagnose and classify reasoning patterns of students; (2) evaluate current…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Objectives, College Faculty, College Instruction
Astin, Alexander W.; And Others – 1979
The texts of three conference papers are presented in this volume. The papers are: Student-Oriented Management: A Proposal for Change (Alexander W. Astin); Goals, Outcomes, and Academic Evaluation (Howard R. Bowen); and A Summary of the 1978 COPA Summer Conference (Charles M. Chambers). The first addresses the definition of quality in…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), College Students, Conference Reports, Educational Objectives