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Faculty Development and Student Learning
Assessing the Connections
William Condon (Author), Ellen R. Iverson (Author), Cathryn A. Manduca (Author), Carol Rutz (Author), Gudrun Willett (Author), Mary Taylor Huber (Foreword by), Richard Haswell (Afterword by)
9780253018786
Hardback, published 15 February 2016
172 pages, 4 b&w illus., 16 tables - 20 Tables, black and white - 10 Illustrations, black and white
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.39 kg
What ground-breaking work. If only those holding the faculty development purse-strings would read it, digest the implications for student growth and retention, and then resource well-designed FD initiatives to improve student learning. This book is highly recommended and has implications for any library who provides faculty development in the form of workshops or consultation services. It also provides a useful context to engage campus discussions about information literacy. The authors end their study with a useful discussion of strategies that can make professional development more effective.
Colleges and universities across the US have created special initiatives to promote faculty development, but to date there has been little research to determine whether such programs have an impact on students' learning. Faculty Development and Student Learning reports the results of a multi-year study undertaken by faculty at Carleton College and Washington State University to assess how students' learning is affected by faculty members' efforts to become better teachers. Extending recent research in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) to assessment of faculty development and its effectiveness, the authors show that faculty participation in professional development activities positively affects classroom pedagogy, student learning, and the overall culture of teaching and learning in a college or university.
Foreword: Pathways from Faculty Learning to Student Learning and Beyond, by Mary Taylor Huber 1. Connecting Faculty Learning to Student Learning 2. Sites of Faculty Learning 3. Seeking the Evidence 4. Faculty Learning Applied 5. Spreading the Benefits 6. Reaching Students 7. Faculty Development Matters Afterword, by Richard Haswell Appendix 1: Critical and Integrative Thinking Forms, Washington State University, 2009 Appendix 2: Methodologies in the Study Appendix 3: History of the Critical Thinking Rubric Appendix 4: Rating Forms References Acknowledgments Notes