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Required Texts:
- Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University
Teachers, W. J. McKeachie and M. Svinicki (Houghton Mifflin 2006, ISBN
0-618-51556-9).
- Teaching Engineering, P. C. Wankat and F. S. Oreovicz (Purdue University).
Full pdf text free on-line Here.
On-Line Resources
Specifically for the course:
- Course OWL-Space Site
- Dr. Richard M. Felder's Homepage.
Dr. Felder is the Hoechst Celanese Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering
at North Carolina State University, and has contributed hundreds of publications
to the fields of science and engineering education; his web site is a vast
resource of writings and references on engineering education.
- U-Minnesota Center for Teaching
& Learning. A site with many useful resources, including
- U-North Carolina Center for Teaching
& Learning. Another useful site, including:
Supplemental Links:
Supplemental Print Material
- Creating Significant Learning Experiences, L. Dee Fink (Jossey-Bass,
2003, ISBN 0-7879-6055-1).
- R. S. Anderson and B. W. Speck, Changing the Way We Grade Student Performance:
Classroom Assessment and the New Learning Paradigm. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass
Publishers, 1998.
- E. Boyer, Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate
( Princeton, NJ: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1990).
A challenge to consider broadening the definition of scholarship beyond
discovery to include the scholarship of integration, application, and teaching.
- C. E. Glassick, M. T. Huber, and G. I. Maeroff, Scholarship Assessed:
Evaluation of the Professoriate (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997).
Follow up to Boyer. Evaluating teaching and faculty; teaching portfolios.
- G. O. Martin-Kniep, Capturing the wisdom of practice: professional
portfolios for educators (Alexandria, Va: Association for Supervision
and Curriculum Development, 1999, electronic
resource).
- P. Seldin, Improving College Teaching (Bolton, MA: Anker Pub. Co.,
1995). Evaluating teaching and teaching portfolios.
- P. Seldin, The teaching portfolio : a practical guide to improved performance
and promotion/tenure decisions, 2nd ed. (Bolton, MA: Anker Pub. Co.,
1997).
- D. D. Stevens and A. Levi, Introduction to Rubrics. Sterling, VA: Stylus
Publishing, 2005.
- P. C. Wankat, R. M. Felder, K. A. Smith, and F. S. Oreovicz, “The Scholarship
of Teaching and Learning in Engineering,” in Disciplinary Styles in the
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Exploring Common Ground, M. T.
Huber and S. Morreale, Eds. (Washington, DC: AAHE/Carnegie Foundation for
the Advancement of Teaching, 2002). Chapter 11. Also on-line.
- D. R. Woods, et. al, “Developing problem solving skills: The McMaster
problem solving program,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol.
86, pp. 75-91, 1997.
- D. R. Woods, R. M. Felder, A. Rugarcia, and J. E. Stice, “The future of
engineering education: Part 3. Developing critical skills,” Chemical
Engineering Education, vol. 34, pp. 108-117, 2000.
- R. L. Wyatt III and S. Looper, So you have to have a portfolio : a
teacher's guide to preparation and presentation (Thousand Oaks, Calif.:
Corwin Press, 1999).
- J. Zubizarreta, The Learning Portfolio (Boston, MA: Anker Publishing,
2004). Learning portfolios are similar to teaching portfolios, but record
a student's journey through a course, program, or school; a useful learning
tool.