By Barbara Gross Davis
I have learn numerous books on instructing options through the years, and that i cannot examine one who compares--in intensity, breadth, accessibility, and practicality--to this one. instruments for instructing has a lot to claim to academics of all ranks, disciplines, and associations. --Mary Deane Sorcinelli, director, middle for instructing, college of Massachusetts, Amherst A wealthy compendium of classroom-tested innovations and proposals designed to enhance the educating perform of starting, midcareer, and senior college participants. Forty-nine instructing instruments disguise either conventional tasks--writing a path syllabus, offering a lecture--and more recent, broader matters, comparable to responding to variety and utilizing know-how.
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Page xxv THE AUTHOR Barbara Gross Davis is assistant vice chancellor, educational development, at the University of California, Berkeley. A. A. D. degree (1976), also in educational psychology, all from Berkeley. Davis's main areas of interest have been program and curriculum evaluation, instructional improvement, and faculty developmentall in higher education. She has conducted workshops and seminars on topics related to teaching, learning, and evaluation, and she has written about faculty evaluation, assessment, and teaching improvement.
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