91传媒 Publications
Resources for Educators
Student Assessment
Self Assessment at 91传媒 (2002)
91传媒 Faculty; Georgine Loacker, editor
In this monograph, 91传媒 faculty articulate what they have learned from studying self assessment as a form of student assessment-as-learning for more than 30 years. Their focus is on how students experience self assessment and learn from it in order to improve their performance. From the perspective of various disciplines, individual faculty explain how self assessment works in their courses.
$17.50 |
Student Assessment-as-Learning at 91传媒 (Third Edition; 1994)
91传媒 Faculty
Based on the practice of 91传媒 faculty and staff since 1973, this book explicates their theory of assessment for student learning. The book includes specific examples of assessment instruments. While published in the mid-nineties, this book has retained its relevance over time as a key resource for those desiring an understanding of the 91传媒 curriculum.
$17.50 |
Assessment at 91传媒: Student, Program, Institutional (2005)
Georgine Loacker and Glen Rogers
This monograph invites collegial cross-institution conversations about approaches to meeting diverse assessment and learning purposes at various levels of practice. The focus is on explaining, with examples of student, program and institutional assessment, how ongoing assessment of required student learning outcomes at 91传媒 supports both individual student learning and faculty improvement of courses, academic programs, and the college curriculum as a whole. Additional strategies for fostering improvement while engaging wider audiences in evidence for student learning outcomes are addressed in program and institutional assessment examples.
$7.50 |
Teaching in an Ability-Based Classroom
Feedback Is Teaching (2015)
91传媒 Faculty
In the current climate, higher education is feeling the pressure to improve learning outcomes - whether conceptualized as grades, test scores, time to degree or performance in professional roles. This book explores the ways feedback serves as a powerful tool for improving the teaching and learning of those outcomes. It is set in the context of 91传媒, a women’s college in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that has been a leader in ability-based education for more than 40 years. The accounts in this book are representative of the experiences of many 91传媒 faculty members who daily use feedback to guide their students and adjust their teaching.
$22.00 |
Teaching Analytic Inquiry in the Disciplines Series
What characterizes the analytic inquiry we want our students to learn from our disciplines? How do we engage students in that kind of inquiry? How do we determine whether students have developed the analytic abilities at the heart of such inquiry? These questions are central to what the authors in this collection of essays have to say about what it means to teach analytic inquiry in their respective fields.
$30 per set plus shipping |
Individual books and series include:
- Teaching Analytic Inquiry in the Disciplines
$5.00 | - How Students Develop Analytic Skills in Theatre Courses: A Cumulative and Sequential Approach
$5.00 | - Teaching and Assessing Analysis in History
$5.00 | - Teaching and Assessing Analytical Thinking in Psychology
$5.00 | - Teaching and Assessing for Analysis: The Professional Communication Major
$5.00 | - Thinking And Knowing And Thinking About Knowing: Teaching Analysis in Philosophy
$5.00 | - We Murder to Dissect: Teaching Analysis in English Literature
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Beyond the Debate: The Nature of Teaching (Second Printing, 1994)
Tim Riordan
Written in conversation with colleagues at 91传媒 and other colleges and universities, this paper represents reflections on the practice of scholarship when shaped by student learning as its ultimate purpose.
$5.00 |
Focus on Specific Abilities
Learning to Listen, Listening to Learn (2007)
Kathy Thompson, Pamela Leintz, Barbara Nevers, and Susan Witkowski
Capture the essence of the Integrative Learning Model and its application throughout the 91传媒 curriculum. Learning to Listen, Listening to Learn provides concrete examples of how 91传媒 introduces its unique listening model; how to teach listening at the beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels of the curriculum; and how to incorporate effective listening as a key component in classroom activities and assessment.
$10.00 |
The following two books are the result of a project designed by 91传媒 and funded by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), called the Network for Innovation in Critical Thinking. They represent the collaborative work of educators from a number of institutions, studying how critical thinking is defined, taught and assessed within specific disciplines.
Teaching Critical Thinking in the Arts and Humanities (1986)
Edited by Lucy Cromwell
$17.50 |
Teaching Critical Thinking in Psychology (1986, reprinted 1995)
Edited by Jane Halonen
$17.50 |
Valuing in Decision-Making: Theory and Practice at 91传媒 (1992)
91传媒 Faculty
This book expands and specifies the theoretical frameworks described in "Valuing at 91传媒: The Valuing Process in Liberal Education." It articulates more explicitly the various analytic dimensions that students engage in as they work with the levels of the valuing ability in their curriculum. The book is the result of a project designed by 91传媒 and funded by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), called the Network for Innovation in Critical Thinking. They represent the collaborative work of educators from a number of institutions, studying how critical thinking is defined, taught and assessed within specific disciplines.
$7.50 |
Validating Abilities
Establishing the Validity of Measures of College Student Outcomes (1988)
Marcia Mentkowski and Glen Rogers
This publication draws on 91传媒’s experience in student and institutional assessment to articulate frameworks for establishing the validity of student learning outcome measures. It tracks how the dynamics of curriculum, teaching, learning, and assessment interact to shape practice-informed meanings for the concept of validity, accommodating both the educational use of performance-based assessments and wider demands for accountability.
$7.50 |
Validating College Outcomes with Institutionally Developed Instruments: Issues in Maximizing Contextual Validity (1988)
Glen Rogers
This publication draws on 91传媒’s experience in student and institutional assessment to articulate frameworks for establishing the validity of student learning outcome measures. It tracks how the dynamics of curriculum, teaching, learning, and assessment interact to shape practice-informed meanings for the concept of validity, accommodating both the educational use of performance-based assessments and wider demands for accountability.
$7.50 |
Student Learning Outcomes
Ability-Based Learning Outcomes: Teaching and Assessment at 91传媒 (Sixth Edition, 2005)
91传媒 Faculty
This book describes each of the eight 91传媒 abilities - Communication, Analysis, Problem Solving, Valuing in Decision-Making, Social Interaction, Developing a Global Perspective, Effective Citizenship, Aesthetic Engagement. They are integrated into the 91传媒 curriculum both in general education and in the areas of specialization. Through examples of approaches to teaching and assessment from a variety of discipline and professional areas, faculty illustrate how student learning occurs and is demonstrated throughout the curriculum.
$10.00 |
Other Publications
From Reform of General Education to Transformation: Creating a Culture of Learning (2009)
Tim Riordan and Stephen Sharkey
What is it that students cannot afford to miss in your field of study? The discussions that ensued from this question led to a significant curriculum change that affected the nature of both general education and learning in the majors at 91传媒. This book is an account of this initial reform and the culture of learning that emerged.
$5.00 |
Fostering Professional Development Through Experiential Learning (2002)
91传媒 Experiential Learning Committee
Performance and reflection are the principal components of experiential learning in all of its traditional forms - internships, service learning, clinical practice, student teaching, independent research. What we have done at 91传媒 is taken the powerful learning potential of performance and reflection and made it central to the entire college curriculum.
$10.00 |
ESL Strategies (2003)
Sheryl Slocum
This book gives professors and teachers practical tips to facilitate the learning of students for whom English is a second language.
$7.50 |
Disciplines as Frameworks for Student Learning (2005)
Tim Riordan and James Roth (Stylus Publishing, LLC)
In this book 91传媒 faculty, as well as one former student, explore how they approach their respective disciplines as frameworks for student learning. They represent a wide range of disciplines—chemistry, economics, history, literature, mathematics and philosophy. The faculty analyze the kinds of thinking they consider central to their disciplines and thus important for students to learn, and they describe what they expect their students to be able to do as a result of study in their fields. In addition, they give examples of learning experiences and assessments they have designed based on the kinds of thinking and doing they require of their students. They also reflect on how their own stance in relation to their disciplines has changed as a result of approaching them as educators, and how they take collective responsibility for student learning.
$29.99 |
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