Collective Goods and Higher Education Research: Pasteur's Quadrant in Higher Edu

Description: Collective Goods and Higher Education Research by Roger Benjamin With this volume, the author demonstrates how a collective goods approach to higher education research can alleviate problems of rising costs, declining resources, and growing concerns about undergraduate learning. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description With this volume, the author demonstrates how a collective goods approach to higher education research can alleviate problems of rising costs, declining resources, and growing concerns about undergraduate learning. In taking this approach, the author presents new tools of analysis—borrowed from cognitive science, economics, data analytics, education technology and measurement science—to investigate higher educations place in society as a public or private good. By showing how these tools can be utilized to re-orient current research, this volume offers scholars and policy makers an argument for the large-scale use of scientific and economic approaches to higher educations most pressing issues. Author Biography Roger Benjamin has been president of CAE, an education assessment testing organization since 2005. Table of Contents Part I The FrameworkChapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 The Framework: Pasteurs Quadrant in Higher EducationPart II Evidence-Based Applications to Policy QuestionsChapter 3 The Future Higher Education Policy Landscape From the Pasteurs Quadrant PerspectiveChapter 4 The Focus on Critical Thinking Skills for the Classroom, the Instructor, and New Sources of ContentChapter 5 Recreating the Faculty Role in University GovernanceChapter 6 Leveling the Playing Field From College to CareerChapter 7 The Role of Generic Skills Assessment in Measuring Academic QualityPart III The Rationale for Standardized Assessments in Higher EducationChapter 8 The Case for Comparative Institutional Assessment of Higher-Order Thinking SkillsChapter 9 The Case for Performance-based Assessments and Critical Thinking TestsChapter 10 Two Questions About Critical Thinking TestsChapter 11 ConclusionCoda CLA+ Analytics: Making Data Relevant Through Data Mining in Real Time Details ISBN1138320765 Year 2018 ISBN-10 1138320765 ISBN-13 9781138320765 Format Hardcover Series Routledge Research in Higher Education Imprint Routledge Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Author Roger Benjamin Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Pages 212 DEWEY 378.106 Publication Date 2018-10-05 Language English AU Release Date 2018-10-05 NZ Release Date 2018-10-05 UK Release Date 2018-10-05 Illustrations 7 Tables, black and white; 7 Line drawings, black and white; 5 Halftones, black and white; 12 Illustrations, black and white Subtitle Pasteurs Quadrant in Higher Education Alternative 9780367585037 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:135963392;

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