Here are some recent books and reports I’ve run across, as well as some articles I and others have written that you may find useful.
We created a knowledgebase of over 50 articles related to college teaching here, on topics such as active learning, lecture, classroom response systems, and the like.
And here are some recent books and articles and reports you may find interesting, mostly related to STEM education or higher education in general. Most of these I’ve posted on twitter (@edtechdev) before and/or Google+.
- Higher Education
- The Cost of College Attrition at Four-Year Colleges & Universities (pdf) – how much money is your college losing every year due to student dropouts? This report calculates it for every school in the country. You can also find the cost of first year attrition on collegemeasures.org. As an example, at my small (5000 student) university, we lose ~$24 million a year, ~$12 million of which is from freshmen leaving.
- Hidden Side of the College Dream: Mediocre Graduation Rates
- What Can Stop Kids From Dropping Out
- “The scandal — and it really is a scandal — is that many colleges and universities aren’t using tools that have been proved to substantially raise graduation rates. Instead, they duck the issue by pointing a finger at high schools for turning out underprepared students.”
- University, Colleges Must Seek Help to Better Assist Students
- How To Fix A Graduation Rate Of 1 In 10? Ask The Dropouts
- Conquering the Freshman Fear of Failure
- Similar colleges. Similar population of black students. So why the disparate graduation rates?
- The Undergraduate Experience: Focusing Institutions on What Matters Most (book)
- Becoming a Student-Ready College: A New Culture of Leadership for Student Success (book)
- Improving Quality in American Higher Education: Learning Outcomes and Assessments for the 21st Century (book) – there is more information at the Measuring College Learning Project
- College Life through the Eyes of Students (book)
- Are You Smart Enough?: How Colleges’ Obsession with Smartness Shortchanges Students (book)
- I Love Learning; I Hate School”: An Anthropology of College (book)
- Higher Education?: How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids—and What We Can Do About It (book)
- Change Management / Academic Transformation
- Synthesis of Scholarship on Change in Higher Education (pdf)
- Transforming Institutions: Undergraduate Stem Education for the 21st Century (book)
- Taking the Reins: Institutional Transformation in Higher Education (book)
- Change Leadership in Higher Education: A Practical Guide to Academic Transformation (book)
- How Colleges Change: Understanding, Leading, and Enacting Change (book)
- Increasing Student Success in STEM: A Guide to Systemic Institutional Change (book) and see related reports from the same authors: [update: they have since taken down all these articles]
- Article Summary of Increasing Student Success in STEM: A Guide to Systemic Institutional Change
- Increasing Student Success in STEM: A Guide to Systemic Institutional Change – Campus Case Studies (pdf)
- Increasing Student Success in STEM: A Guide to Systemic Institutional Change – A Workbook for Campus Teams (pdf)
- Ann Austin
- Transforming Science Education at Large Research Universities (pdf)
- Articles out of U. Colorado (Reinholz, Corbo, etc.) – Department Action Teams
- Accelerating Systemic Change in STEM Education (ASCN)
- Making Academic Change Happen (MACH) – workshop
- AAU Framework for Systemic Change in Undergraduate STEM Teaching and Learning
- Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM) – been used in K12 for decades
- Moving from the Periphery to the Center of the Academy: Faculty Developers as Leaders of Change
- Implementing a University-Wide Change Initiative (Team-Based Learning)
- Changing Perceptions of the University as a Community of Learning: The Case of Penn State (pdf)
- Broad-Based and Targeted: Florida State University’s Efforts to Retain Every Student
- STEM Education / Retention
- I updated a handout that lists different strategies to improve student retention and graduation rates in college
- Calculus I factors women out of STEM degrees
- Retention Intervention: Staying the Course in College
- Improving Underrepresented Minority Student Persistence in STEM
- Teaching and Learning STEM: A Practical Guide (book) and see related website
- Increasing Retention and Graduation Rates Through a STEM Learning Community – about the EXCEL project at UCF
- Effects of innovative science and mathematics teaching on student attitudes and achievement: A meta-analytic study
- Integrating Discovery-Based Research into the Undergraduate Curriculum (free book)
- Barriers and Opportunities for 2-Year and 4-Year STEM Degrees (free book)
- Developing Indicators for Undergraduate STEM Education (draft, free book)
- Toward Inclusive STEM Classrooms: What Personal Role Do Faculty Play?
- ‘Belonging’ can help keep talented female students in STEM classes
- Education research denialism in university STEM faculty
- The inquiry-based approach to higher ed that could prevent college students from dropping out
- Engineering Education
- The Future of Engineering Education – Revisited (pdf)
- Thoughts on Variability in Graduation Rates at Engineering Colleges – how does your college of engineering compare to others in terms of graduation rates?
- Why Do So Many Women Who Study Engineering Leave the Field?
- Examining Why Female Students Leave Engineering
- Engineering – U: A Guide to the Engineering Student Life (book)
- Teaching Engineering (book)
- A Little Book on Teaching: A Beginner’s Guide for Educators of Engineering and Applied Science (book)
- Barriers to student success in engineering education
- Conversations about Diversity: Institutional Barriers for Underrepresented Engineering Students
- Why research-informed teaching in engineering education? A review of the evidence
- Can a Five-Minute, Three-Question Survey Foretell First-Year Engineering Student Performance and Retention?
- Academic Help-seeking as a Stand-alone, Metacognitive Action: An Empirical Study of Experiences and Behaviors in Undergraduate Engineering Students
- The philosophical and pedagogical underpinnings of Active Learning in Engineering Education
- Math / Calculus Education
- Stop telling kids you’re bad at math. You are spreading math anxiety ‘like a virus.’
- 4-Part Plan Seeks to Fix Mathematics Education
- Introductory math courses that serve as gateways to majors in science, technology, engineering, and math can be stultifying bores, a presidential council has said, leaving students “with the impression that all STEM fields are dull and unimaginative.”
- Peer-Assisted Reflection: A Design-Based Intervention for Improving Success in Calculus
- The Calculus Project: A Growth Mindset Success Story
- Active Learning in Post-Secondary Mathematics Education (pdf) – statement from many math-related professional organizations
- Insights and Recommendations from the MAA National Study of College Calculus (free book)
- Meeting the Challenges of Improved Post-Secondary Education in the Mathematical Sciences (pdf)
- Teaching and Learning of Calculus
- On understanding and improving the teaching of university Mathematics
- The state of developmental math: It’s far worse than you think
- High failure rates spur universities to overhaul math class
- The Wrong Way to Teach Math – author of The Math Myth: And Other STEM Delusions
- Physics Education – see also Google+ community
- The PER User’s Guide is now PhysPort. See articles like:
- Addressing Underrepresentation: Physics Teaching for All
- Gender in Physics
- The Student Perspective: Why a Qualified STEM Student Decided to Drop Physics
- 2 in 5 High Schools Don’t Offer Physics, Analysis Finds
- Paired Teaching: Getting faculty to use (and keep using) evidence-based teaching methods
- If Your Science Professors Aren’t Confusing, They’re Doing It Wrong
- Computer Science Education
- Faculty Development
- What is Educational Development? – statement from POD Network
- Building a Better Future STEM Faculty: How Teaching Development Programs Can Improve Undergraduate Education
- Using Metacognition to Develop College Faculty
- Some articles from Diane Ebert-May and others:
- Professional Development of Faculty: How Do We Know It Is Effective?
- Assessing faculty professional development in STEM higher education: Sustainability of outcomes
- Breaking the cycle: future faculty begin teaching with learner-centered strategies after professional development
- Developing learner-centered future faculty (pdf)
- Implicit theories about teaching skills predict university faculty members’ interest in professional learning
- Understanding and Reducing Faculty Reluctance to Improve Teaching
- Teaching Professors to Become Better Teachers
- Situated instructional coaching: a case study of faculty professional development
- Colorblind and Multicultural Ideologies Are Associated With Faculty Adoption of Inclusive Teaching Practices
- A Guide to Online Resources for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education – other knowledgebases from centers for teaching and learning
- The Benefits of Learning Assessment in Faculty Development
- Learning / Psychology / Teaching
- The Curse of Expertise: When More Knowledge Leads to Miscalibrated Explanatory Insight
- Why Experts Make Bad Teachers
- Student evaluations of teaching are not only unreliable, they are significantly biased against female instructors
- Enhanced Memory as a Common Effect of Active Learning
- Towards a Theory of When and How Problem Solving Followed by Instruction Supports Learning
- Facilitating Student Learning Through Contextualization
- Postsecondary Peer Cooperative Learning Groups – Annotated Bibliography
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