How professors think : inside the curious world of academic judgment / Michele Lamont.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lamont, Michèle, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College teachers--Rating of.

College teachers.

Peer review.

Teacher effectiveness.

Portfolios in education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Judging quality isn't robotically rational; it's emotional, cognitive, and social, too. Yet most academics' self-respect is rooted in their ability to analyze complexity and recognize quality, in order to come to the fairest decisions about that elusive god, "excellence." In How Professors Think, Lamont aims to illuminate the confidential process of evaluation and to push the gatekeepers to both better understand and perform their role. --from publisher description.

Contents:

Opening the black box of peer review

How panels work

On disciplinary cultures

Pragmatic fairness : customary rules of deliberation

Recognizing various kinds of excellence

Considering interdisciplinarity and diversity

Implications in the United States and abroad.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-315) and index.

ISBN:

9780674054158

0674054156

OCLC:

651657410