Product Description: Dr. Marilla Svinicki has been the Editor-in-Chief for New Directions for Teaching and Learning since the early 1990s. As of January 2010, Dr. Catherine Wehlburg has taken this position. To mark the transition, this issue focuses on the progress of teaching and learning in higher education with regard to some important topics that have shaped it during the life of New Directions for Teaching and Learning...read more

Product Description: Assessment plays a key role in institutions of higher education. However, many colleges and universities simply add their assessment plans onto other teaching, learning, service, and research activities in order to prepare for an impending accreditation visit...read more

Faculty are often motivated to change the activities and design of their courses for reasons not based on data. In "Meaningful Course Revision," the author seeks instead to illustrate how the appropriate use of multiple, direct measures of student-learning outcomes can lead to enhanced course development and revision. While providing an outline of methods for creating significant learning experiences, the book also includes practical suggestions for shaping the design of a course to meet student needs. "Meaningful Course Revision" urges a rethinking of teaching and learning. By making student advancement its focal point, it offers guidance through Data-based decision making Designing course-based assessment activities Using data to enhance innovation in course redesign Rethinking teaching and learning Embedding assessment activities in meaningful ways Planning the course Closing the feedback loop Moving from course-level decision making to departmental curriculum planning Creating a culture of student-learning outcomes assessment Written for faculty seeking advice on how to keep their teaching interesting and effective, "Meaningful Course Revision" is a practical guide for collecting information about how well students are reaching course goals, learning what impact course changes are having on student learning, and putting courses into a cycle of continual revision and improvement.