Our Underachieving Colleges : A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More - New Edition

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bok, Derek
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives.
Academic achievement.
EDUCATION > Higher.
Enseignement superieur > Finalites > États-Unis.
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives > United States.
Academic achievement > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (440 pages).
ISBN:9781400831333

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