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Direct linkSchweitzer, Jill Kuglin; Tobin, Wes; Krerowicz, Sam; Blakefield, Mary; Olson, Brian; Law, Yu Kay – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2023
Exploring the value of course assessment across multiple teaching modalities, this chapter provides a framework for improving introductory science courses by evaluating the impact of pedagogical modality on student learning.
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Science Education, Teaching Methods, Comparative Analysis
Xiao Yun Sim; Yuan Zhou – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2025
This study examined lived experiences of two international student affairs professionals in the United States. Through a series of interviews, the dialogues unfold rich narratives that explore the multifaceted journey from academic preparation to career placement in the field of higher education student affairs (HESA). It also underscores the…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Services, Student Personnel Workers, Student Attitudes, Personal Narratives
Ripoll-Núñez, Karen J.; Mojica-Ospina, Iván Enrique; Torres-Riveros, Andrés Camilo; Castellanos-Tous, María Silvana – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2018
Using the TBC, we compared students' and teachers' perceptions of excellent teaching in different disciplines at a private university in Colombia. Faculty and students in all fields rated being respectful and being a good communicator as the two most important qualities of excellent teachers. Differences in students' and faculty's perceptions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Comparative Analysis
Fezzey, Hilary N.; Fujieda, Eri; Goerdt, Lynn Amerman; Kahler, Heather; Nikoi, Ephraim – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2017
This chapter will discuss global awareness in five distinctive disciplines (Communications, Literature, Mathematics, Social Work, and Sociology). Comparisons between the pedagogies in the disciplines focus on academic settings other than study abroad.
Descriptors: Global Education, Study Abroad, Educational Environment, Literature
Fink, L. Dee – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2013
During the past few decades, faculty developers within the United States and internationally have steadily become more aware of the need to do a better job of assessing their programs. They are part of institutions of higher education that are also growing more aware that they not only need to "support" learning by professors and students but they…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Colleges, Faculty Development, Program Evaluation
Hebbani, Aparna; Hendrix, Katherine Grace – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2014
This chapter presents findings from a qualitative study which investigated the perceptions of twenty-five ITAs toward US American undergraduates. The participant cohort comprised fourteen PhD and eleven master's students, of which, three were male and twenty-two were female ITAs teaching oral communication or a communication course requiring…
Descriptors: Teaching Assistants, Foreign Nationals, Teaching Experience, Teacher Attitudes
Britton, 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
Coppola, Brian P. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2009
In this chapter, the author begins with something that is nearly self-evident: a primary reason that STEM faculty members are so successful in research, even in the face of constantly changing and exponentially growing information, is the highly intentional program of professional preparation that they receive. For over a hundred years,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Science Education, Technology Education, Engineering Education
Jackson, Rebecca – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2008
This article maps the Association of College and Research Libraries' Information Competency Standards for Higher Education to the cognitive development levels developed by William G. Perry and Patricia King and Karen Kitchener to suggest which competencies are appropriate for which level of cognitive development. (Contains 1 table.)
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Information Literacy, Cognitive Development, Critical Thinking
Brost, Jennifer; Payne, Kelly – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2011
Academic dismissal resulting from poor scholastic achievement is an unfortunate reality at American universities, and one that involves students, faculty, and academic advisers. This chapter analyzes learning outcomes of the academic dismissal process for first-generation college students (FGS) resulting from a year-long study conducted at a…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Academic Achievement, Learner Engagement, Liberal Arts
La Lopa, Joseph M. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2004
Authentic learning activities call for understandable assessments. In this chapter, the process used to involve students in developing an evaluation tool is described. This tool was used by a panel to grade proposal presentations developed in an authentic learning task.
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Student Evaluation, Comparative Analysis, Tourism
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
Howell, Scott L. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2004
Although instructional methods are moving in ever greater number to a multimedia base, testing is not. What principles should be considered in correcting this misalignment?
Descriptors: Multimedia Instruction, Teaching Methods, Test Validity, Test Reliability
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 reviewedMurray, Harry G.; Renaud, Robert D. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1995
Observation of 401 college teachers indicates that teachers of different academic disciplines (arts/humanities, social sciences, natural sciences/mathematics) differ in the frequency of specific classroom teaching behaviors, but that what makes an effective teacher, in the perception of students, is consistent regardless of discipline.…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, Comparative Analysis, Educational Strategies
