This work examines how people learn and how post-secondary teachers can use current knowledge about learning to teach more effectively. It synthesises works on learning by a range of scholars and offers five strategies that teachers can adapt to their particular situations.
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?The book is well organized. [It] is useful in providing a review of some of the theory behind teaching and student learning.?-Education Libraries
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JAMES R. DAVIS is director, Center for Academic Quality, special assistant to the provost, and professor of higher education, University of Denver, Colorado.
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present performance level, postsecondary teachers, composite perspective, behavioral learning theory, elementary backstroke, dialogical thinking, postsecondary settings, feature demons, learning style theory, assessing student learning, inquiry strategy, explaining strategy, learning hierarchy, terminal behavior, unified commitment, holistic learning Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, San Francisco, Edna Wolf, Pastor Dwight, Professor Meade, Professor Smith, Jonathan Wesley, Professor Newton, Small Group Decision Making, Englewood Cliffs, Professor Clementi, Professor Warner, Emily Dickinson, Teaching Thinking Skills, Small Group Communication, Sue Best, Elm Grove College, Ski International, Arthur Chickering, Basic Books, Nancy Green, Pacific Coast Community College, Practical Strategies, Raymond Nickerson, United States New!
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In common usage the term "subject" refers to the content of an academic discipline, such as chemistry, history, or mathematics. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
present performance level, postsecondary teachers, composite perspective, behavioral learning theory, elementary backstroke, dialogical thinking, postsecondary settings, feature demons, learning style theory, assessing student learning, inquiry strategy, explaining strategy, learning hierarchy, terminal behavior, unified commitment, holistic learning Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, San Francisco, Edna Wolf, Pastor Dwight, Professor Meade, Professor Smith, Jonathan Wesley, Professor Newton, Small Group Decision Making, Englewood Cliffs, Professor Clementi, Professor Warner, Emily Dickinson, Teaching Thinking Skills, Small Group Communication, Sue Best, Elm Grove College, Ski International, Arthur Chickering, Basic Books, Nancy Green, Pacific Coast Community College, Practical Strategies, Raymond Nickerson, United States New!
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- The Teaching of Thinking by R. S. Nickerson on 5 pages
- Small Group Decision Making: Communication and the Group Process by Donald G. Ellis on 5 pages
- Decision Making by Mescon Group on 5 pages
- Cognition and Cognitive Psychology by Anthony J. Sanford on 5 pages
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn on 4 pages
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- Cooperative Learning For Higher Education Faculty: (American Council on Education Oryx Press Series on Higher Education) by Barbara J. Millis on page 111, page 249, and Back Matter
- Effective Grading: A Tool for Learning and Assessment (Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education) by Barbara E. Walvoord in Back Matter
- Managing Your Own Learning by James R Davis Ph. in Back Matter
- Learning to Lead: A Handbook for Postsecondary Administrators (ACE/Praeger Series on Higher Education) by James R. Davis on page 58
- Success in On-line Learning by Candice Kramer in Back Matter
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