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Drawing on a large body of empirical evidence, former Harvard President Derek Bok examines how much progress college students actually make toward widely accepted goals of undergraduate education. His conclusions are sobering. Although most students make gains in many important respects, they improv...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bok, Derek
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2007.
Temas:
Academic achievement > United States.
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives > United States.
Enseignement supérieur > Finalités > États-Unis.
EDUCATION > Higher.
Academic achievement
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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520 |a Drawing on a large body of empirical evidence, former Harvard President Derek Bok examines how much progress college students actually make toward widely accepted goals of undergraduate education. His conclusions are sobering. Although most students make gains in many important respects, they improve much less than they should in such important areas as writing, critical thinking, quantitative skills, and moral reasoning. Large majorities of college seniors do not feel that they have made substantial progress in speaking a foreign language, acquiring cultural and aesthetic interests, or learni. 
505 0 |a Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Evolution of American Colleges; 2 Faculty Attitudes toward Undergraduate Education; 3 Purposes; 4 Learning to Communicate; 5 Learning to Think; 6 Building Character; 7 Preparation for Citizenship; 8 Living with Diversity; 9 Preparing for a Global Society; 10 Acquiring Broader Interests; 11 Preparing for a Career; 12 Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education; Afterword to the Paperback Edition; Notes; Index. 
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