Faculty Member $100 Library

-- A Faculty Member’s $100 Starting Library on Teaching, Learning and Assessment

• Classroom Assessment Techniques: A New Book for College Teachers (2nd ed.), by Thomas A. Angelo and K. Patricia Cross. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993 ($34.95).
The best basic reference on the various approaches to assessing students. Numerous case studies and examples.
• Preparing for Promotion and Tenure Review: A Faculty Guide, by Robert M. Diamond. Bolton, Mass.: Anker, 1995 ($9.50).
An increasing number of institutions are recognizing teaching innovation and course and curriculum design as forms of scholarly and professional work. This booklet provides specific guidelines for documentation.
• Redesigning Higher Education: Producing Dramatic Gains in Student Learning, Report 7, by Lion F. Gardiner. Washington, D.C.: Graduate School of Education and Human Development, George Washington University, 1996 ($18.00).
If you want a good and practical review of research on curriculum and course design, teaching, learning and advising this is the book.
• The Course Syllabus: A Learning-Centered Approach, by Judith Grunert. Bolton, Mass.: Anker, 1997 ($14.95).
Provides practical suggestions on how you can improve student learning by providing them with quality information.
• Tools for Teaching, by Barbara Gross Davis. San Francisco: Josssey-Bass, 1993 ($32.95).
A great place to start if you want to review your instructional options and get some sound advice on what to do and why. Contains forty-nine succinct chapters on everything from lectures, discussions and small group activities to dealing with a diverse student body, using technology, making out-off-class assignments, grading, and improving student learning and motivation.

Newsletters for Departmental Libraries

• The National Teaching and Learning Forum, edited by James Rhem. Phoenix: Oryx Press. ($39.00 annually)
Six issues during the academic year. Faculty write about innovations they have tried and lessons they have learned. Includes reviews of most recent publications and resources.
• The Teaching Professor, edited by Mary Ellen Weiman. Madison, Wis.: Magne Publications. ($41.00 annually)
Published monthly except July and August, this newsletter contains excellent brief articles on teaching related topics with up-to-date reports on the latest research.

Source: Designing and Assessing Courses and Curricula: A Practical guide by Robert M. Diamond, Jossey-Bass Inc.(1998)