Collective Goods and Higher Education Research - Pasteurs Quadrant in Higher Education

List of contents

Part I The Framework
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The Framework: Pasteur’s Quadrant in Higher Education
Part II Evidence-Based Applications to Policy Questions
Chapter 3 The Future Higher Education Policy Landscape From the Pasteur’s Quadrant Perspective
Chapter 4 The Focus on Critical Thinking Skills for the Classroom, the Instructor, and New Sources of Content
Chapter 5 Recreating the Faculty Role in University Governance
Chapter 6 Leveling the Playing Field From College to Career
Chapter 7 The Role of Generic Skills Assessment in Measuring Academic Quality
Part III The Rationale for Standardized Assessments in Higher Education
Chapter 8 The Case for Comparative Institutional Assessment of Higher-Order
Thinking Skills
Chapter 9 The Case for Performance-based Assessments and Critical Thinking Tests
Chapter 10 Two Questions About Critical Thinking Tests
Chapter 11 Conclusion
Coda CLA+ Analytics: Making Data Relevant Through Data Mining in Real Time

About the author

Roger Benjamin has been president of CAE, an education assessment testing organization since 2005.

Summary

With this volume, the author demonstrates how a collective goods approach to higher education research can alleviate problems of rising costs, declining resources, and growing concerns about undergraduate learning.

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin, Roger Benjamin
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781138320765
• ISBN: 978-1-138-32076-5
• No. of pages: 212
• Series: Routledge Research in Higher Education; Routledge Research in Higher Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; EDUCATION / Testing & Measurement, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Evaluation & Assessment, Educational strategies & policy, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Educational strategies and policy, Education: examinations and assessment, Examinations & assessment, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher