Faculty Development and Student Learning

William Condon is Professor of English at Washington State University. He is coauthor of Writing the Information Superhighway and Assessing the Portfolio: Principles for Theory, Practice, and Research.Ellen R. Iverson is Director of Evaluation at the Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College.Cathryn A. Manduca is Director of the Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College.Carol Rutz is Director of the Writing Program at Carleton College.Gudrun Willett is Project Director for the Tracer Project and an associate at Ethnoscapes Global, LLC.

What ground-breaking work. If only those holding the faculty development purse-strings would read it, digest the implications for student growth and retention, and then resource well-designed FD initiatives to improve student learning.- Tim Doherty This book is highly recommended and has implications for any library who provides faculty development in the form of workshops or consultation services. It also provides a useful context to engage campus discussions about information literacy. The authors end their study with a useful discussion of strategies that can make professional development more effective.(Journal of Academic Libraries)

• Foreword: Pathways from Faculty Learning to Student Learning and Beyond, by Mary Taylor Huber1. Connecting Faculty Learning to Student Learning2. Sites of Faculty Learning3. Seeking the Evidence4. Faculty Learning Applied5. Spreading the Benefits6. Reaching Students7. Faculty Development MattersAfterword, by Richard HaswellAppendix 1: Critical and Integrative Thinking Forms, Washington State University, 2009Appendix 2: Methodologies in the StudyAppendix 3: History of the Critical Thinking RubricAppendix 4: Rating FormsReferencesAcknowledgmentsNotes