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Higher education is experiencing fundamental changes in the student population
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faculty and staff in understanding some of those changes. Articles are from
the university's database holdings as well as generally available web resources.
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Changing Attitudes
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Bartlett, Thomas. Evaluating Student Attitudes Is More Difficult This Year. http://waterfield.murraystate.edu/login?url=http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?
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Chronicle of Higher Education, 2/1/2002, Vol. 48 Issue 21, pA35, 4p
Reports on results of a 2001 survey of freshmen in the United States. Attitude of college freshmen toward politics; How students rated their emotional health; Information on the hours spent by students to study.
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Brownstein, Andrew. The Next Great Generation?
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an=3669377&db=aph) Chronicle
of Higher Education, 10/13/2000, Vol. 47 Issue 7, pA71, 2p
Focuses on the `millennials,' the generation that begins with the year 2000 college freshmen, predicted by authors Neil Howe and William Strauss in their book `Millennials Rising: The Next Great Generation.' Personality of the millennials; Characteristics of the parents of the millennials; How millennials view political leaders; Difference of the millennials with the baby boomers and Generation Xers.
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Forester-Jones, Rachel. Students' Perceptions of Teaching: the research is alive and well.
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an=9259426&db=aph) Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, Feb2003, Vol. 28 Issue 1, p59, 11p
Investigates students' perception of lectures, seminars and modules in a university school of sociology and social policy.
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The Institute of Politics Survey of Student Attitudes. Harvard,
2002. http://www.iop.harvard.edu/iopstudents/survey/survey2002.pdf
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Longhurst, James. World History on the World Wide Web: A Student Satisfaction Survey and a Blinding Flash of the Obvious.
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an=10011216&db=aph) History Teacher, May2003, Vol. 36 Issue 3, p343, 14p
Presents the results of a survey of technologically proficient undergraduates in an introductory world history course at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, about their attitudes toward readability and the citation of work by other disciplines on teaching history with technology. Description of the Introduction to World History course of the university; Qualitative responses; Preferred choice of format to receive their reading materials.
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Misra, Ranjita; McKean, Michelle; West, Sarah; Russo, Tony ACADEMIC STRESS OF COLLEGE STUDENTS: COMPARISON OF STUDENT AND FACULTY PERCEPTIONS.
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an=3452556&db=aph) College
Student Journal, Jun2000, Vol. 34 Issue 2, p236, 10p
This study examined perceptions of academic stress among male and female college students, and compared faculty and student perceptions of students' academic stress. The sample consisted of 249 students and 67 faculty members from a midwestern University. Mean age of the students and faculty members were 21 years and 42 years respectively. Results indicated a considerable mismatch between faculty and students in their perceptions of students' stressors and reactions to stressors. The faculty members perceived the students to experience a higher level of stress and to display reactions to stressors more frequently than the students actually perceived.
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Morton, Larry L.; Clovis, Christopher J.. Luddites or sages? Why do some resist technology/technique in classrooms?
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an=10358324&db=aph) Simile, Aug2002.
Approximately 500 post baccalaureate students were surveyed about 11 pedagogical techniques to which they were exposed in a media-friendly lecture hall. The data allowed for students to be grouped into "non-likers" (those who showed an absence of positive responses to a particular method) and "likers" (those who indicated they liked the method). Web-oriented methods showed "non-liking" rates ranging from 28-42%. Ironically, while brief stories (using speech, PowerPoint text and animation) generated the least amount of "non-liking," an audio story by a classic storyteller generated the most "non-liking." …Even with popular techniques like sound-bites, PowerPoint, animation, MPEG, stories, and the use of the Internet, there was a substantial rate of "non-liking."…
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Yining Chen; Hoshower, Leon B. Student Evaluation of Teaching Effectiveness: an assessment of student perception and motivation.
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Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, Feb2003, Vol. 28 Issue 1, p71,
18p
Investigates college students' perception of the teaching evaluation system and their motivation to participate. Application of the expectancy theory; Improvement of course content and format; Attitudes towards professors' tenure, promotion and salary rise decisions.
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Communication and Technology
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Benvenuto, Mark A. In an Age of Interactive Learning, Some Students Want the Same Old Song and Dance.
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an=1896976&db=aph) Chronicle
of Higher Education, 6/4/99, Vol. 45 Issue 39, pB9
Critiques the use of so-called 'interactive learning' approaches in higher education. The fact that many students are resistant to such approaches, and prefer to receive information passively through a professor's lectures and written materials; Reasons to use both interactive and non-interactive methods.
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On line.
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an=2292633&db=aph) Chronicle
of Higher Education, 9/17/99, Vol. 46 Issue 4, pA35
Presents results of a market survey conducted by Student Monitor on college students' habits and opinions on various subjects in the United States, during the spring semester. Usage of computers; Online purchasing patterns; Views on social issues.
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Flowers, Lamont A.; Zhang, Yanmei. Racial Differences in Information Technology Use In College.
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College Student Journal, Jun2003, Vol. 37 Issue 2, p235, 7p
Presents a study which described the extent to which information technology use in college differed by race, using data from the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study. Methods; Results and discussion
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Jones, Marlee. New Kids on the Block: Observations on the Newest Generation of MIT Students.
MIT
Faculty Newsletter (September 2001). Online article.
http://web.mit.edu/pacing/www/docs/new-kids-on-the-block.pdf
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Mangis, Carol A. Gen Y Online.
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Magazine, 5/6/2003, Vol. 22 Issue 8, p26
A telephone survey conducted by 360 Youth Inc., an Alloy company, and Harris Interactive Inc. sheds light on the online activity of young adults— specifically, U.S. college students age 18 to 30. And perhaps predictive of where this group is headed, more than half the online students have broadband connections, whether they live at home or on campus. According to Samantha Skey, a VP at 360 Youth, young people approach the Web as a communication rather than a publishing platform.
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Marx, Gary. Preparing Students and Schools for a Radically Different Future.
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USA Today Magazine, Mar2002, Vol. 130 Issue 2682, p68, 3p
Discusses the trends that will affect the education in the U.S. as of March 2002. Decline in the percentage of white U.S. citizens; Domination of knowledge and social relationships; Shift in education toward personalization; Insistence of the generation Xers, those who were born beginning in 1983, on solutions to accumulated problems and injustices.
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Montana, Patrick J; Lenaghan, Janet A. What Motivates and Matters
Most to Generations X and Y. Journal of Career Planning & Employment, v59 n4 p27-30 Sum 1999
Presents findings of a 1999 survey of 200 recent graduates (Generation X) and current undergraduates (Generation Y) of the Hofstra University Zarb School of Business. Participants ranked the top six of 25 factors that they consider most important in motivating them to do their best work. Results were compared with the rankings by two groups of business executives. Implications for staffing professionals are discussed.
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Multi-College Student Survey: Experiences with Instructional Technology Report. University of Minnesota, 2001.
http://dmc.umn.edu/about/student-eval/student-eval.pdf
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Oblinger, Diana. Boomers, Gen-Xers and Millennials: Understanding the New Students. EduCause (July-August 2003). Online article.
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm0342.pdf
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Collaborative Teaching
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Bartlett, Thomas. Students Become Curricular Guinea Pigs.
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of Higher Education, v48 n35 pA12-A14 May 2002
Describes how the University of Pennsylvania is testing a new way of teaching involving team-taught interdisciplinary courses on some its freshmen, while keeping others in a control group.
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Borg, J. Rody; Borg, Mary O. Teaching Critical Thinking in Interdisciplinary Economics Courses.
(http://waterfield.murraystate.edu/login?url= http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=EJ623395&db=eric) College
Teaching, v49 n1 p20-25 Win 2001.
Asserting that economists must work intentionally to put critical thinking skills into their courses, presents an approach that involves team teaching a course combining economics and another discipline with contrasting assumptions and values. Describes the issues addressed in courses combining economics and English literature and economics and biology.
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Gable, Robert A.; Manning, M. Lee. Interdisciplinary Teaming: Solution to Instructing Heterogeneous Groups of Students.
(http://waterfield.murraystate.edu/login?url= http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=EJ577129&db=eric) Clearing
House, v72 n3 p182-85 Jan-Feb 1999.
Discusses interdisciplinary team collaboration for teachers, including structuring a successful team meeting, the 10-step interdisciplinary problem-solving meeting, evaluation of team collaboration, and effective team communication.
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Gailey, Joan D.; Carroll, Virginia Schaefer. Toward a Collaborative Model for Interdisciplinary Teaching: Business and Literature.
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Journal of Education for Business, v69 n1 p36-39 Sep-Oct 1993.
Discusses what team teachers--one English and the other business management--learned from planning an interdisciplinary course, from developing the curriculum, and from their classroom experiences. Offers guidance for interdisciplinary teaching, a model for bridging business and literature, and a model that can be extended to other disciplines.
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Goodson, Carol Ann; Duling, Ed. Integrating the Four Disciplines.
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Educators Journal, v83 n2 p33-37 Sep 1996.
Examines specific approaches and strategies for teaching discipline-based music education (DBME). DBME incorporates history, aesthetics, and criticism into traditional music education. Discusses creating a DBME unit, what questions to ask, and what resources to use. Includes a sample approach.
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Ruwe, Donelle; Leve, James. Interdisciplinary Course Design.
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Clearing House v74 n3 p117-18 Jan-Feb 2001.
Describes problems faced in an interdisciplinary course taught by the authors on major 19th and 20th century figures and ideas in the humanities (literature, music, art, and philosophy). Tells how they refashioned it to focus on depth rather than breadth. Offers some hard-won insights and advice for those embarking on interdisciplinary teaching.
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Robinson, Betty; Schaible, Robert M. Collaborative Teaching: Reaping the Benefits.
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Teaching v43 n2 p57-59 Spr 1995.
Guidelines for collaborative, interdisciplinary teaching at the college level are presented, including: restricting the team to two members, in general; agreeing on a trial period; selecting a coteacher with a healthy psyche; selecting course content fertile for interdisciplinary learning; discussing teaching philosophy and methods; reviewing grading criteria; anticipating teaching and interpretation differences; and preparing for student perplexity.
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Cheating and Plagiarism
General Readings
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The Condition of Education 2003 In Brief
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2003068
From the National Center for Education Statistics
This publication, The Condition of Education 2003 in Brief, contains a summary of 21 of the 44 indicators in The Condition of Education 2003. The topics covered include enrollments in elementary/secondary and postsecondary education; student achievement; transfers from community colleges to 4-year institutions; college persistence rates; trends in English and foreign language coursetaking; out-of-field teaching in middle and high school; undergraduate diversity; changes in tenure policy and hiring; and levels of education funding.
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Essential Demographics of Today's College Students
published in: AAHE-Bulletin, vol. 51, no. 3, November 1998.
http://www.emporia.edu/tec/tchid08.htm
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Gender Differences and the Online Classroom: Male and Female College Students Evaluate Their Experiences
By Patrick Sullivan, Community College Journal of Research and Practice 25.10 (December 2001): 805-818.
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How Do You Fare If You’re Not 19?
By Shira J. Boss, Christian Science Monitor 91.250 (November 23, 1999): 20.
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Nontraditional Campuses Becoming Mainstream
By Tammy Battaglia, Crain’s Cleveland Business 24.35 (September 1, 2003): 23.
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The Organization Kid
By David Brooks, The Atlantic Monthly (April 2001)
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/04/brooks-p1.htm
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Our Students, Ourselves [editorial]
By Margaret A. Miller, Change 35.2 (March/April 2003): 4.
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School Enrollment in the United States – Social and Economic Characteristics of Students
An October 1999 report from the U.S. Census Bureau, covering students from nursery school to graduate school.
http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/p20-533.pdf
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Support Systems, Psychological Functioning, and Academic Performance
of Nontraditional Female Students
By Shawn Carney-Crompton and Josephine Tan, Adult Education Quarterly 52.2 (February 2002): 140-144.
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Using Technology to Teach Nontraditional Students
By Annette Nellen, Tax Adviser 34.5 (May 2003): 290-292.
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