I ended following your previous advice about the other subject. The research i found in government pensions was either insufficient in each article, and hard to come by non biased responses. I have found 8-10 sites that i will post. I will continue to annotate each site. If you wish. I can annotate the previous sites that i have found about the subject you have mentioned. Only this blog will annotate the latest six research i have found. I will do whatever extra work you require me to do since i have decided to change my subject.
What measures have been taken to improve today's higher education?
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By: Wilbert J. McKeachie
Center for Research on Learning and Teaching and National Center for Research to Improve Postsecondary Teaching and Learning, University of Michigan
http://lib-proxy.purduecal.edu:2461/ehost/detail?sid=0a2a0e97-5df9-45b2-b29f-ce358e3a4916%40sessionmgr15&vid=1&hid=14&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=pdh&AN=edu-82-2-189
Summary.
Wilbert J. McKeachie writes about collected list of authors' information about college education, and what methods that are used by diverse professors. His writings summarizes the methods of teachings and states what could be used to improve lectures and notes the highlights of well developed teaching methods. His writings compare certain courses' methods, and he finds what the most effective courses are and also talks of what they lack compared to others. Much of the writing is about research on course teaching methods, and what is has been done over time to improve our college students' education.
Assessment.
The material in this online recourse could be used to help show what ways are effective on one class but ineffective in another. Also, the research points out critical facts about common teaching methods that are done in classrooms. The writing even talks of common student habits and what professors do to help students better understand material. Not only is this topic about pure research, it also gives insight into the minds of multiple student heads, and how not everyone learns the same. It shows that there is a problem that needs to be confronted, and measures are being taken to improve education.
Reflection
I would use this source for my project to find statistical research, and use it support why and how faculty, students, and professors teach, process information, and help others. This information goes into the early beginning of my topic. It is mostly collected research information that has important notes highlighted not only for me, but any other reader. This source is extremely helpful due to its factual base. It is not biased and is full of trustworthy information.
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The Problem with Lecturing
by: Emily Hanford
Feb, 2012
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/tomorrows-college/lectures/problem-with-lecturing.html
Summary
In this online writing, a Emily Hanford talks about how another professor discovers how much college lectures may be ineffective in certain courses. The professor Hestenes made his own research reflecting basic foundations of introduction physics courses with on a thousand students form two different colleges. He tested them at the beginning of the semester and then at the end. Improvement only increased by fourteen percent, but all still failed. He noticed that all lectures were extremely similar in their teaching methods. He also found his methods were similar as well. These methods included notes taken from assigned books to courses and then spoken right to a group of students. He had concluded that different methods need to be created in some courses. Students learn in their own way, and sometimes have more troubles learning in ways a professor might think works well, but in the end it does not work at all.
Assessment:
Due to the research conducted by a wide audience of students. I believe this source is not biased, it is more informational and provides hard proof of similar teaching methods that have failed including his own. This source is a wonderful indication of lecture methods that need to me changed, and what ideas there are to help change teaching methods.
Reflection:
For this source, I would definitely use for factual evidence in my topic. This source definitely gave insight on what can be done to change methods, and what methods really do no work for a majority of classes. This source does claim to conduct research about one type of course, but it can show that other courses might or might not require the same teaching methods that are given.
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The problem of passive learning from lectures in college
by: Mary Therese, Leigh Gossl, Jack Roviere, Kimberly A. Smith, Alexia Alexandria
March 28, 2008
http://www.helium.com/items/955570-the-problem-of-passive-learning-from-lectures-in-colleges
Summary
This is an online article about how students have different styles of learning, how teaching methods are well developed in some classes and compare them to classes that do not work as well. Also, it shows research about the steps taken to improve a course. It details information about the successful courses and talks about their technical ways of having students interact with each other using methods given by a professors lecture.
Assessment:
This source is is highly useful because it takes the view points of multiple authors and professors. It takes much research from other sites and puts them together to show more productive measures that have been taken to improve the way courses have been taught. It shows many other steps on what measures that have been taken to understand students, and professors.
Reflection:
This topic would be helpful by supporting the main topic of my project. Because it talks mostly about what has been done to help improve today's higher education, and what is being done on an everday basis. This source has almost unlimited about of information about the steps taken to enhance college education, and what improvements did not have much effect at all. This information shocks even myself, knowing how much has really been put fourth to help improve mine, and everyone's education.
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Improve College Teaching
by: Benn R. Erickson, Bette L. Erickson.
Journal (1979) Ohio State University.
http://lib-proxy.purduecal.edu:2091/openurl?volume=50&date=1979&spage=670&issn=00221546&issue=5
Summary:
This is a journal of collected information about a course that was struggling to teach students certain information that was required to understand, and what trails and methods were used over a period of time to improve those methods. The topics cover struggling methods turning into successful teaching methods that helped students and other teachers. It mainly goes over what went on in courses, and how students best learned by interacting with each other. Then making improvements to the particular method, and how it developed into an almost fully successful course.
Assessment:
This source is extremely useful, because it shows how common students need certain methods to learn reading from text. It not only shows how students struggled in courses, but how other professors struggled to improve their courses. Since much of it was research that was done about multiple schools and courses, it is hard to believe that most of the information given is biased.
Reflection:
I would use this topic to help give information about common problems within classrooms, and what trials that have been done to improve a course. This shows what methods have been developed into more successful ones and how it works in multiple courses.
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IMPROVING COLLEGE TEACHING
by: Peter Seldin
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/vc_academic_affairs/improve.html
Summary:
This source includes a broad explanation of what improvements are taken to enhance courses, barriers that keep courses from being improved, and how students and professors need to take their own actions to help improve themselves from a classroom. It gives much insight on what methods are ineffective, and what methods become more effective than others.
Assessment:
This source is useful because it gives another perspective on why certain methods need improvement, but sometimes they cannot be improved due to other factors. It asks and answers questions that many students and professors may ask, and it talks about why/how methods are always being improved.
Reflection:
This research is useful due to its different approach than other research that has been done. It takes common and more advanced questions about teaching methods, and explains and evaluates them. The topic makes you think why professors teach the way they do, and how students might think methods are ridiculous. However, those methods might be even more useful to students if they open up to the methods instead of shutting down on certain methods.
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Methods of Improvement
http://www.helium.com/items/1098132-the-problem-of-passive-learning-from-lectures-in-colleges
Summary:
This research talks of what today's teaching methods have of students, and what methods are helping students better understand a course's content.
Assesment:
This source was useful due to the information about modern improvements done to education. It compares what used to be done in other education, and what steps were taken to improve those methods.
Reflection: Although this source is great to look at about modern methods, it does seem slightly biased due to the fact that the research has been done only on one school.
