Pursuing Instructional Effectiveness in Higher Education: It's about Time!

by Edwin G. Ralph

Overview

Ralph's text is for anyone interested in the improvement of instructional or presentation skills at the adult undergraduate level, such as newly hired professors and graduate teaching assistants, but it is also suitable for experienced educators who want to reassess their own practice. Focusing on the use and management of time—and timing, coverage includes theory and central assumptions about time- use in teaching, a conceptual framework for planning time-use, techniques and practical classroom examples, and guidelines for student assessment. The author has 40 years of instructional experience and has written extensively on teaching strategies and methods. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781590338827
Publisher:	Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date:	10/28/2003
Pages:	155
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

	Introduction	vii
	Endnotes	xii
Chapter 1	Instructional Time: Rationale and Research	1
	Rationale	1
	Research Results on Use of Time in Teaching	8
	Endnotes	27
Chapter 2	Planning For Effective Time-Use In Teaching	31
	A Conceptual Framework	31
	Instructional Planning and Time	33
	Endnotes	53
Chapter 3	Instructional Time: Classroom Presentation and Interaction	55
	Time Factors: Effective Structuring and Presenting	55
	Essential Principles of Motivational Presenting	56
	Applying and Managing the Time Elements: The Actual Presentation	60
	Some Concluding Reflections on Chapter 3	84
	Endnotes	85
Chapter 4	Time and Assessing Student Achievement	87
	Principles of Authentic Assessment	87
	Conventional Assessment Techniques	100
	Notes	114
	Endnotes	115
Chapter 5	"Timely" Questions and Instructional Development	117
1.	What is the Nature of Instructional Time?	117
2.	How can Academic Learning Time be Increased?	118
3.	What Effective Group Management and Organization Skills Increase Academic Learning Time?	118
4.	What Specific Instructional Strategies and Approaches Lead to Increased Academic Learning Time?	119
5.	What Further Timing-Elements Can be Used to Enhance Students Learning?	122
	"Timely" Suggestions for Instructional Development	126
	Endnotes	137
	Bibliography	139
	Index	151