1st Edition

Collective Goods and Higher Education Research Pasteur’s Quadrant in Higher Education

By Roger Benjamin Copyright 2019
230 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

230 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

With this volume, the author demonstrates how a collective goods approach to higher education research can alleviate problems of rising costs, declining resources, and growing concerns about undergraduate learning. In taking this approach, the author presents new tools of analysis—borrowed from cognitive science, economics, data analytics, education technology and measurement science—to... Read more

Part I The Framework





Chapter 1 Introduction





Chapter 2 The Framework: Pasteur’s Quadrant in Higher Education





Part II Evidence-Based Applications to Policy Questions





Chapter 3 The Future Higher Education Policy Landscape From the Pasteur’s Quadrant Perspective





Chapter 4 The Focus on Critical Thinking Skills for the Classroom, the Instructor, and New Sources of Content





Chapter 5 Recreating the Faculty Role in University Governance





Chapter 6 Leveling the Playing Field From College to Career





Chapter 7 The Role of Generic Skills Assessment in Measuring Academic Quality



Part III The Rationale for Standardized Assessments in Higher Education





Chapter 8 The Case for Comparative Institutional Assessment of Higher-Order



Thinking Skills





Chapter 9 The Case for Performance-based Assessments and Critical Thinking Tests





Chapter 10 Two Questions About Critical Thinking Tests





Chapter 11 Conclusion





Coda CLA+ Analytics: Making Data Relevant Through Data Mining in Real Time

Biography

Roger Benjamin has been president of CAE, an education assessment testing organization since 2005.