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Volume 7

Volume 7 (1988) To Improve the Academy
Part I: Classroom Research
Project Learn: Encouraging Innovative and Professional Growth through Classroom Research
Kate Brooks
Notes on a Classroom Research Program
Bette LaSere Erickson and Glenn R. Erickson
The URI Projects:
Art Essays and Computer Letters
Wendy Holmes
Alternatives for Evaluating the Death Education Student
J. Eugene Knott
Evaluating Structured Group Activities for the Large Class
John Stevenson
Undergraduate Students’ Use of Time: A Classroom Investigation
Barbara E. Brittingham
Weekly Quizzes and Examination Performance in Intermediate Accounting
Joseph Matoney
Student Styles and Learning in Two College of Business Courses
Blair Lord
Improving Teaching by Reflecting on Practice
Ron Smith and Fred Schwartz
Part II: Fostering Student Inquiry
Using Field Methods as an Instructional Tool
Donald H. Wuff and Jody D. Nyquist
Topics in Question: Active Learning through Inquiry
Susan Lundvall Brodie
Part III: Academic Life: Realities and Possibilities
Assessing Faculty Quality of Life
Jon Hageseth and Sally Atkins
Satisfaction and Concerns of New University Teachers
Mary Deane Sorcinelli
Helping Faculty Meet New Pressures for Scholarly Writing
Robert Boice
On Being a Faculty Member or Things Your Dissertation Adviser Never Told You
Richard Thompson, Jim Turner, and Robert Boice
The Washington Center: A Grass Roots Approach to Faculty Development and Curricular Reform
Barbara Leigh Smith
Part IV: Emerging Contexts for Development
Collaborating with Departmental TA Coordinators: The Next Step?
Nancy Chism
Practices Used by Excellent Department Chairs to Enhance the Growth and Development of Faculty
Myra Wilhite and Anita Leininger
Developing Management Skills of Academic Professionals
Len Ainsworth