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This summary is based on the Jossey-Bass publication of the same title, Educating Physicians: A Call for Reform of Medical and School and Residency.

Because the research literature did not cover what mathematical knowledge students have, James Stigler undertook fieldwork to learn more about students’ understanding of basic mathematics, and student...

Includes an extensive review of literature and field work, with interviews of students, faculty, and administrators at three community colleges –San Jose City College, East LA Community College and El Paso...

Provides a descriptive analysis of full- and part-time community college faculty, and their preparation for teaching.

A review of literature of current student success courses in community colleges.

A white paper on social and educational psychology that helps map the landscape of current practice and new possibilities in teaching mathematics.

An introduction to a series of background papers prepared for Carnegie to support its work in developmental mathematics in community colleges, to devise measures for student success, and to help identify problems of...

This summary is based on the Jossey-Bass publication of the same title, Educating Nurses: A Call for Radical Transformation.

"Reflections from a Two-Decade Association with Reading Recovery," in Journal of Reading Recovery, Fall 2009, pages 17-19.

In “Toward Informative Assessment Assessment and a Culture of Evidence,” Bond discusses the data gathered over the course of the SPECC project and reflects on the need for new ways to measure student...

In "Change and Sustain/Ability: A Program Director's Reflections on Institutional Learning," Asera looks at how community colleges encounter, respond to, and incorporate ideas about teaching and learning,...

In "Strengthening Pre-collegiate Education in Community Colleges: Project Summary and Recommendations," the authors provide an overview of the purposes, activities, findings, and recommendations from a...

In “The Promise of Faculty Inquiry for Teaching and Learning Basic Skills,” Huber discusses how faculty inquiry can inform and support classroom teaching and learning, as well as allow for better designed...

“Faculty Inquiry in Action” offers suggestions for starting and supporting faculty inquiry groups on individual campuses.

In “Listening to Students About Learning,” Bueschel explores how students can become partners in innovation and inquiry, more engaged in the classroom, and better positioned to succeed when educators...

Basic Skills for Complex Lives details five principles for creating powerful classrooms and offers a new vision for professional development. Included are recommendations drawn from the work of the 11 community...

“Faculty Inquiry in Action” offers suggestions for starting and supporting faculty inquiry groups on individual campuses.

A collection of short essays designed to demystify assessment.

In Liberal Education , Vol. 93, No. 2, Spring 2007.

A public report of the Integrative Learning Project.

In The New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 355:1339-1344. The directors of Carnegie's study of medical education, Molly Cooke and David Irby, and Senior Scholar Bill Sullivan and Kenneth Ludmerer, summarize the set of challenges facing medical education and physicians-in-training, and call for fundamental redesign of the content of medical training in the United States.

An online report prepared for The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

A new consensus report by 22 scholars, jointly organized by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and CIRCLE, explores the civic effects of attending college and the benefits of various approaches...

In Change, September/October 2005. Volume 37, Number 5, Pages 50-57.  A look at the multiple and sometimes conflicting visions of the Carnegie Classification, which was widely adopted by the higher...

Chapter one in The Advancement of Learning: Building the Teaching Commons.

Integrative Learning explores the challenges to integrative learning today as well as its longer tradition and rationale within a vision of liberal education. In outlining promising directions for campus work, the...

Foreword to Balancing Acts: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Academic Careers.

Introduction to Disciplinary Styles in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Exploring Common Ground.

Introduction to Ethics of Inquiry: Issues in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

Foreword to Ethics of Inquiry: Issues in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

How can faculty integrate the scholarship of teaching and learning into their academic careers? Balancing Acts addresses this question through the experience of four scholars who have been innovators in their own...

Conclusion to Opening Lines: Approaches to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

Introduction to Opening Lines: Approaches to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

Originally published in Change, September/October 1999. Volume 31, Number 5. Pages 10-15.

Originally published in Change, July/August 1999. Volume 31, Number 4. Pages 10-17.

Based on comments made at meetings during November and December, 1999.

Presented at the 7th International Improving Student Learning Symposium, September 1999.

The Professional Preparation of Teachers for American Public Schools, authored by William S. Learned and William C. Bagley, et al., studies the tax-supported normal schools of that state, together with an examination of the general principles of organization, administration, and curriculum construction in teacher-training agencies in the United States. A request from the governor and state superintendent of public schools in Missouri initiated the report.