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The Academic Portfolio
A Practical Guide to Documenting Teaching, Research, and Service
Peter Seldin (Author), J. Elizabeth Miller (Author)
9780470256992, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 31 October 2008
384 pages
22.6 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.522 kg
“If you plan to read only one book about portfolios, buy this one. Peter Seldin is the author or coauthor of over 16 books about faculty development and evaluation. His most recent books explored the use of portfolios in evaluating teaching or administrative performance. This one is dedicated to the use of the same tool in documenting all three components of a faculty work life, and is addressed both to the preparer and to evaluator of an academic portfolio. …Even the most faithful of Seldin’s readers will find new and updated content among many familiar themes, as well as a change of focus from the evaluator to the preparer of an academic portfolio. The anecdote at the end of Chapter 6 is telling about the authors’ opinion: the time to begin preparing an academic portfolio is now. Start by reading this book to find out why and how!” —The National Teaching and Learning Forum
This comprehensive book focuses squarely on academic portfolios, which may prove to be the most innovative and promising faculty evaluation and development technique in years. The authors identify key issues, red flag warnings, and benchmarks for success, describing the what, why, and how of developing academic portfolios. The book includes an extensively tested step-by-step approach to creating portfolios and lists 21 possible portfolio items covering teaching, research/scholarship, and service from which faculty can choose the ones most relevant to them. The thrust of this book is unique: Designed for faculty members, department chairs, deans, and members of promotion and tenure committees, all of whom are essential partners in developing successful academic portfolio programs, the book will also be useful to graduate students, especially those planning careers as faculty members.
Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii About the Authors xv About the Contributors xix 1 The Academic Portfolio Concept 1 2 Choosing Items for the Academic Portfolio 11 3 Preparing the Portfolio 31 4 Suggestions for Improving the Portfolio 41 5 Evaluating the Portfolio for Personnel Decisions 45 6 Answers to Common Questions 51 7 Sample Portfolios from Across Disciplines 59 Bioscience and Biotechnology 79 Child and Family Studies 93 Education 111 Education 123 English 139 Environmental Engineering 153 Foreign Languages and Literature 167 Geology and Environmental Science 181 Jazz and Contemporary Music 197 Mathematical Sciences 215 Nutritional Sciences 229 Pastoral Counseling 247 Pediatric Emergency Medicine 259 Political Science 277 Political Science 295 Product Design 311 Psychology 329 References 349 Index 351
Biomedical Engineering 61
Timothy M. Wick
Shivanthi Anandan
Lynda Henley Walters
Robert M. Maninger
Clement A. Seldin
John Zubizarreta
Charles N. Haas
Sheri Spaine Long
Ranjan S. Muttiah
Reginald Workman
Lisa A. Oberbroeckling
Gina Jarman Hill
Kelly Murray
Annalise Sorrentino
Carrie Liu Currier
Marlene K. Sokolon
Robert Kirkbride
Pamela A. Geller
Subject Areas: Education [JN]
