Resources for Teaching in Higher Education

International Guide to Student Achievement

Edited by John Hattie, Eric M. Anderman

The International Guide to Student Achievement brings together and critically examines the major influences shaping student achievement today. There are many, often competing, claims about how to enhance student achievement, raising the questions of "What works?" and "What works best?"...

To Be Published November 21st 2012 by Routledge

Paying the Professoriate

A Global Comparison of Compensation and Contracts

Edited by Philip Altbach, Liz Reisberg, Maria Yudkevich, Gregory Androushchak, Iván Pacheco

How are professors paid? Can the "best and brightest" be attracted to the academic profession? With universities facing international competition, which countries compensate their academics best, and which ones lag behind? Paying the Professoriate examines these questions and provides key...

Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge

Higher Education for Sustainability

Cases, Challenges, and Opportunities from Across the Curriculum

Edited by Lucas F. Johnston

Student and employer demand, high-level institutional commitment, and faculty interest are inspiring the integration of sustainability-oriented themes into higher education curricula and research agendas. Moving toward sustainability calls for shifts in practice such as interdisciplinary...

To Be Published July 15th 2012 by Routledge

Writing for Peer Reviewed Journals

Strategies for Getting Published

By Pat Thomson, Barbara Kamler

Writing for Peer Reviewed Journals focuses on a writing task that is increasingly required of doctoral students and is a necessity for early career researchers and more experienced writers alike. It presents a theorized approach to writing that is crucially combined with strategies designed to...

To Be Published August 14th 2012 by Routledge

Understanding Undergraduates

Challenging our preconceptions of student success

By Celia Popovic, David A. Green

Series: SEDA Series

Most university teachers have ideas about the typical good or not-so-good student in their classes, but rarely do they share these thoughts with others. By keeping quiet about the preconceptions – or stereotypes – they harbour, teachers put themselves at risk of missing key evidence to help them...

Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge

Improving Student Engagement and Development through Assessment

Theory and practice in higher education

Edited by Lynn Clouder, Christine Broughan, Steve Jewell, Graham Steventon

With a unique focus on the relationship between assessment and engagement this book explores what works in terms of keeping students on course to succeed. Against a backdrop of massification and the associated increase in student diversity there is an escalating requirement for personalized,...

Published May 13th 2012 by Routledge