Peter Seldin, J. Elizabeth Miller

The Academic Portfolio (eBook, ePUB)

A Practical Guide to Documenting Teaching, Research, and Service

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This comprehensive book focuses squarely on academic portfolios, which may prove to be the most innovative and promising faculty evaluation and development technique in years. The authors identify key issues, red flag warnings, and benchmarks for success, describing the what, why, and how of developing academic portfolios. The book includes an extensively tested step-by-step approach to creating portfolios and lists 21 possible portfolio items covering teaching, research/scholarship, and service from which faculty can choose the ones most relevant to them. The thrust of this book is unique: * It provides time-tested strategies and proven advice for getting started with portfolios. * It includes a research-based rubric grounded in input from 200 faculty members and department chairs from across disciplines and institutions. * It examines specific guiding questions to consider when preparing every subsection of the portfolio. * It presents 18 portfolio models from 16 different academic disciplines. Designed for faculty members, department chairs, deans, and members of promotion and tenure committees, all of whom are essential partners in developing successful academic portfolio programs, the book will also be useful to graduate students, especially those planning careers as faculty members.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118045428
• Artikelnr.: 38444406

Autorenporträt

THE AUTHORS Peter Seldin is Distinguished Professor of Management Emeritus at Pace University in Pleasantville, New York. J. Elizabeth Miller is associate professor of Family and Child Studies at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
About the Authors xv
About the Contributors xix
1 The Academic Portfolio Concept 1
2 Choosing Items for the Academic Portfolio 11
3 Preparing the Portfolio 31
4 Suggestions for Improving the Portfolio 41
5 Evaluating the Portfolio for Personnel Decisions 45
6 Answers to Common Questions 51
7 Sample Portfolios from Across Disciplines 59
Biomedical Engineering 61
Timothy M. Wick
Bioscience and Biotechnology 79
Shivanthi Anandan
Child and Family Studies 93
Lynda Henley Walters
Education 111
Robert M. Maninger
Education 123
Clement A. Seldin
English 139
John Zubizarreta
Environmental Engineering 153
Charles N. Haas
Foreign Languages and Literature 167
Sheri Spaine Long
Geology and Environmental Science 181
Ranjan S. Muttiah
Jazz and Contemporary Music 197
Reginald Workman
Mathematical Sciences 215
Lisa A. Oberbroeckling
Nutritional Sciences 229
Gina Jarman Hill
Pastoral Counseling 247
Kelly Murray
Pediatric Emergency Medicine 259
Annalise Sorrentino
Political Science 277
Carrie Liu Currier
Political Science 295
Marlene K. Sokolon
Product Design 311
Robert Kirkbride
Psychology 329
Pamela A. Geller
References  349
Index 351

Rezensionen

"If you plan to read only one book about portfolios, buy thisone. Peter Seldin is the author or coauthor of over 16 books aboutfaculty development and evaluation. His most recent books exploredthe use of portfolios in evaluating teaching or administrativeperformance. This one is dedicated to the use of the same tool indocumenting all three components of a faculty work life, and isaddressed both to the preparer and to evaluator of an academicportfolio.

...Even the most faithful of Seldin's readers willfind new and updated content among many familiar themes, as well asa change of focus from the evaluator to the preparer of an academicportfolio.

The anecdote at the end of Chapter 6 is telling about theauthors' opinion: the time to begin preparing an academicportfolio is now. Start by reading this book to find out why andhow!"

--The National Teaching and Learning Forum