Changing the Conversation about Higher Education

Table of Contents

Forward:
Derek Bok, President Emeritus, Harvard University
Preface:
Content Overview:
Acknowledgements:
Contributors:
Introduction:
Robert J. Thompson, Jr., Duke University
Part One: Effective Teaching and Learning Practices
Chapter 1. From Bottlenecks to Epistemology in History: Changing the Conversation
about the Teaching of History in Colleges and Universities
Leah Shopkow with Arlene Diaz, Joan Middendorf, and David Pace
Indiana University
Chapter 2. Using Scaffolding and Metacognitive Processes to Improve Critical Thinking
in the Disciplines
Andrea Follmer Greenhoot, University of Kansas
Chapter 3. Think like/write like: Metacognitive Strategies to Foster Students’ Development
as Disciplinary Thinkers and Writers
Deborah Meizlish, Danielle LaVaque-Manty, Naomi Silver, and Matthew Kaplan
University of Michigan
Chapter 4. How Writing-to-Learn Practices Improve Student Learning: Connecting
Research and Practice through a Consideration of Mechanisms of Effect
Christopher Thaiss,University of California-Davis
Julie Reynolds, Duke University
Part Two: Approaches to Assessment
Chapter 5. Assessment Approaches and Perspectives: Engaging Faculty and
Improving Student Learning
Jessica L. Jonson, Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Robert J. Thompson, Jr., Ph.D., Duke University
Chapter 6. Developing a Process for Assessing General Education Learning Outcomes
Across a Multi-College University
Erin Blankenship, Shari J. Stenberg, and David E. Wilson
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Chapter 7. Disciplinary-Specific Thesis Assessment Protocol: A Validated Rubric
that Promotes Student Learning and Faculty Development
Julie Reynolds, Duke University
Part Three: The Role of University Centers: Professional Learning Communities
Chapter 8. Teaching and Learning Centers as Professional Learning Communities
Daniel Bernstein, University of Kansas
Chapter 9. Amplifying the Impact of Pedagogical Research: The Role of Teaching
Centers and Writing Centers
Matthew Kaplan, Deborah Meizlish, Naomi Silver, and Danielle LaVaque-Manty,
University of Michigan

Part Four: Next Steps in the Continuing Efforts to Transform the Culture of
Undergraduate Education
Chapter 10. Systematic to Systemic: A Heuristic Framework to Improve Educational
Practices and Student Learning
Robert J. Thompson, Jr., Duke University
Chapter 11. Changing the Conversation, Changing the Culture: The Place of
Foundations in the Learning Commons
Annie W. Bezbatchenko, The Teagle Foundation
Andrea Conklin Bueschel, The Spencer Foundation
Donna Heiland, The Teagle Foundation

References:

With all the swirling controversy about who gets into college, how it gets paid for, and how well it pays off, we risk forgetting that the fundamental work of colleges is teaching and learning and that at root a college becomes better when its faculty teach more effectively and its students learn more. Readers who want to understand how colleges and universities can get better at their most important work will find invaluable guidance in this book.