Improving How Universities Teach Science : Lessons from the Science Education Initiative / Carl Wieman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wieman, Carl, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource : 6 charts, 10 tables

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Too many universities remain wedded to outmoded ways of teaching. Too few departments ask whether what happens in their lecture halls is effective at helping students to learn and how they can encourage their faculty to teach better. But real change is possible, and Carl Wieman shows us how it can be done-through detailed, tested strategies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1. The Vision

2. The SEI Model for Achieving Change

3. The Process of Making Change

4. Science Education Specialists: Agents of Change

5. What Was Achieved and What We Learned

6. The Post- Mortem: What Worked, What Didn't, and Why Coda

Appendix 1: SEI Course Transformation Guide

Appendix 2: Guide to Interviewing Students and Faculty

Appendix 3: Examples of SES Advertisements and Interview Questions

Appendix 4: Sample Questions for SES Interviews

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-674-97891-9

OCLC:

984651015