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

    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 investigate higher education’s place in society as a public or private good. By showing how these tools can be utilized to re-orient current research, this volume offers scholars and policy makers an argument for the large-scale use of scientific and economic approaches to higher education’s most pressing issues.

    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.