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Assessment in Practice: Putting Principles to Work on College Campuses
Banta, Trudy W., Jon P. Lund, Karen E. Black, and Frances W. Oblander
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1996
From the Publisher
Good practice in assessment is taking place on hundreds of campuses across the country, yet much of this work goes unreported. Now, Assessment in Practice brings together in one volume the best current knowledge of assessment methods that work and principles that should be incorporated into all effective assessment efforts - whether at institutional, program, or departmental levels.

Drawing from 165 actual cases-and...

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•	Grading

Assessing Faculty Work: Enhancing Individual and Institutional Performance
Braskamp, Larry A. and John C. Ory
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1994
From the Publisher
Today's faculty members, like other professionals, find themselves caught between the pursuit of individual gain and the common good. Society is increasingly demanding that faculty demonstrate social responsibility toward both the institution and the larger community. This book is a practical resource for fostering and assessing faculty achievements in all aspects of their work: teaching, research, practice, and citizenship....

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Practically Speaking: A Sourcebook for Instructional Consultants in Higher Education
Brinko, Kathleen and Robert J. Menges
New Forums Press, Stillwater, OK
1997
From the Publisher
A uniquely comprehensive resource about instructional consultation in higher education -- At many colleges, universities, and professional schools, consultants are available to faculty who wish to assess and improve their teaching. Consultation is widely regarded as a powerful intervention for improving teaching and learning. No service provided by teaching centers has greater potential for producing deep and enduring effects...

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Reflective Faculty Evaluation: Enhancing Teaching and Determining Faculty Effectiveness
Centra, John A.
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1993
From the Publisher
There is growing pressure both within and outside higher education to recognize and reward faculty excellence in teaching, as well as in the areas of research and service. In this book, John A. Centra provides faculty members, administrators, and faculty development specialists with the up-to-date approaches they need to evaluate and improve teaching. Greatly expanding his earlier bestseller, Determining Faculty Effectiveness...

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Designing & Assessing Courses & Curricula: A Practical Guide
Diamond, Robert M.
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1998
From the Publisher
Designing and Assessing Courses and Curricula reflects the best current knowledge and practice in course and curriculum design and connects this knowledge with the critical task of assessing and learning outcomes at both course and curricular levels. Tested and refined through long-term use and study, the change model presented in this book shows how to move from concept to actualization, from theory to practice.

•	Course Design

•	Assessment of Teaching

The Teaching Portfolio: Capturing the Scholarship in Teaching
Edgerton, Russell, Patricia Hutchings, and Kathleen Quinlan
American Association for Higher Education, Washington, D.C.
1991
From the Publisher
Suggests one model in which faculty assemble a collection of carefully selected "work samples" accompanied by reflective commentary about them. Covers the what, why, and how of teaching portfolios, with pointers for getting started and a sampling of current campus practices. Includes reproductions of eight actual portfolio entries. The companion volume to "Campus Use of the Teaching Portfolio".

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Embracing Contraries: Explorations in Learning and Teaching
Elbow, Peter
Oxford University Press, New York, NY
1986
From the Publisher
Peter Elbow's widely acclaimed and original theories on the writing process, set forth in Writing Without Teachers and Writing With Power, have earned him a reputation as a leading educational innovator. Now Elbow has drawn together twelve of his essays on the nature of learning and teaching to suggest a comprehensive philosophy of education. At once theoretical and down-to-earth, this collection will appeal not only to teachers,...

•	Method and Theory

•	Grading

•	Assessment of Teaching

Scholarship Assessed: Evaluation of the Professoriate
Glassick, Charles E., Mary Taylor Huber, Gene I. Maeroff
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1997
From the Publisher
Begun under the oversight of Ernest L. Boyer and completed by authors Glassick, Huber, and Maeroff, Scholarship Assessed examines the changing nature of scholarship in today's colleges and universities. It proposes new standards for assessing scholarship and evaluating faculty with special emphasis on methods for documenting effective scholarship. Based on the findings of the Carnegie Foundation's National Survey on the Reexamination...

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Making Teaching Community Property: A Menu for Peer Collaboration and Peer Review
Hutchings, Pat
American Association for Higher Education, Washington, D.C.
1996
From the Publisher
Describes strategies through which faculty can document and "go public" with their teaching - be it for purposes of improvement or evaluation. Each of nine chapters features a different strategy - from the fairly simple, low-risk "teaching circle," to "course portfolios," to more formal departmental occasions such as faculty hiring - with reports by faculty who have actually tried each strategy, guidelines for good practice,...

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Proclaiming and Sustaining Excellence: Assessment as a Faculty Role
Schilling, Karen Maitland and Karl L. Schilling
George Washington University, Washington, DC
1998
From the Publisher
This book provides a brief history of the most recent wave of assessment in higher education, particularly focused on the faculty role in assessment. It traces major conceptual, methodological, political and policy advances in assessment over the past decade. The authors suggest some ways of thinking about assessment, strategies, and next steps which they view as necessary for more clearly envisioning assessment as a faculty...

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Changing Practices in Evaluating Teaching: A Practical Guide to Improved Faculty Performance and Promotion/Tenure Decisions
Seldin, Peter and Assoc.
Anker Publishing, Bolton, MA
1999
From the Publisher
Changing Practices in Evaluation Teaching offers university and college administrators and faculty the kind of research-based and ready-to-use information required to foster truly effective and equitable teaching evaluation at their institutions.

Seldin shares his years of extensive research on this topic, uniquely examining the transformation of evaluation trends over the past two decades, while pointing out the implications...

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The Teaching Portfolio: A Practical Guide to Improved Performance and Promotion/Tenure Decisions, 2nd ed.
Seldin, Peter
Anker Publishing, Bolton, MA
1997
From the Publisher
This book examines the teaching portfolio approach to evaluating classroom performance of college instructors. It notes that an estimated 1,000 colleges and universities in the United States are now using or experimenting with portfolios, and that this approach, called a "teaching dossier" has been in use in Canada for 20 years. Key issues, warnings, and benchmarks for success of the portfolio approach are identified. The book...

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How Am I Teaching? Forms and Activities for Acquiring Instructional Input
Weimer, Maryellen, Joan L.Parrett and Mary Margaret Kerns
Atwood Publishing, Madison, WI
2002
From the Publisher
If you're like most instructors, this is a question that you've asked yourself many times. That's why Weimer, Parrett, and Kerns have compiled this guide so it's easier to get the answers that you need to this crucial question.

How Am I Teaching? contains nine forms and activities that allow you to gather information about what you're doing and how well you're doing it. The authors begin with a simple diagnostic matrix...

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Improving College Teaching: Strategies for Developing Instructional Effectiveness
Weimer, Maryellen
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1990
From the Publisher
This book shows college administrators, deans, department heads, and faculty development professionals how to improve the instructional performance of faculty members. It offers strategies for overcoming resistance and motivating faculty members to improve their teaching--and identifies the resources, activities, and services that will help them to succeed.

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Recognizing Faculty Work: Reward Systems for the Year 2000
Diamond, Robert M. and Bronwyn E. Adam, editors.
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1993
From the Publisher
This volume is structured to provide practical assistance to those engaged in the review of faculty reward systems on their campuses and to provide guidelines to academic administrators, deans, and chairs who are leading these efforts. Chapters have been designed to address major issues relating to promotion, tenure, and merit pay. The different ways in which campuses have approached the process of clarifying their missions...

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A Practical Guide to Alternative Assessment
Herman, Joan L., Pamela R. Aschbacher, Lynn Winters
Assn. for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Alexandria, VA
1992
From the Publisher
Joan Herman, Pamela Aschbacher, and Lynn Winters offer cogent guidance on the creation and use of alternative measures of student achievement. They present a systemic and iterative process model that links assessment with decisions affecting curriculum and instruction, according to developmental theories of learning and cognition.
The authors review the purposes of assessment and provide a substantive rationale for alternative...

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Honoring Exemplary Teaching
Menges, Robert and Marilla Svinicki
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1996
From the Publisher
Many colleges and universities are attempting to increase the recognition they give to those faculty who go beyond mere competence and truly represent the best teaching higher education has to offer. What is the promise of programs to honor exemplary teaching? What pitfalls must they avoid? This issue of New Directions for Teaching and Learning describes programs in a variety of settings and with varying purposes. It reviews...

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"Thoughts on Evaluation"
Cross, Art
Appalachian State University, Faculty Development and Instructional Services (May 1989): 2-3
1989

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"Assessment in the Classroom"
Cross, K. Patricia
Briefing 10, no. 2 (1992): 1-4
1992

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"The Teaching Portfolio"
Seldin, Peter, and Linda Annis
Teaching Excellence 3, no. 2 (1991)
1991

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•	Faculty Development

"Teaching as Community Property: Putting an End to Pedagogical Solitude"
Shulman, Lee S.
Change Nov/Dec (1993): 6-7
1993

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"Evaluating an Uncertain Craft: Faculty Assessment and Theological Education"
Boys, Mary C.
Theological Education 31, no. 2 (1995): 37-50
1995

•	Theological Education

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Assessment: Case Studies, Experience, and Practice from Higher Education
Schwartz, Peter and Graham Webb
Kogan Page, London
2002
From the Publisher
Assessment is central to the work of all education professionals in higher education, and is recognized as the main driver of learning for most students. Offering a compelling series of case studies, this book brings together a variety of assessment techniques. By taking the reader right into the middle of "real-life" situations it focuses on showing how assessment can provide a transparent and meaningful link between learning...

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Building a Scholarship of Assessment
Banta, Trudy W. and Associates
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
2002
From the Publisher
In this book, leading experts in the field examine the current state of assessment practice and scholarship, explore what the future holds for assessment, and offer guidance to help educators meet these new challenges. The contributors root assessment squarely in several related disciplines to provide an overview of assessment practice and scholarship that will prove useful to both the seasoned educator and those new to assessment...

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Successful Faculty Development and Evaluation: The Complete Teaching Portfolio
Murray, John P.
Graduate School of Education and Human Development, George Washington University, Washington, DC
1997
From the Publisher
This report relates to the concept of teaching portfolios. It discusses the importance of accounting for institutional culture when introducing the concept of teaching portfolios. Includes information on how the department chair can help to improve teaching.

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Classroom Research: Early Lessons from Success
Angelo, Thomas A., editor
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1991
From the Publisher
Since 1986, when K. Patricia Cross first began to write and speak about Classroom Research, faculty across the country have been inspired by her vision of a learner-centered, teaching-directed approach aimed at understanding and improving student learning. In the intervening five years, hundreds of college teachers at dozens of institutions have taken up her challenge to become "Classroom Researchers," engaging in the systematic...

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Assessment Clear and Simple: A Practical Guide for Institutions, Departments, and General Education
Walvoord, Barbara E.
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
2004
From the Publisher
Assessment Clear and Simple is "Assessment 101" in a book -- a concise, step-by-step guide written for everyone who participates in the assessment process. This practical book helps to make assessment simple, cost-efficient, and useful to the institution, while at the same time meeting the requirements of accreditation agencies, legislatures, review boards, and others. Assessment Clear and Simple can help your institution employ...

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"Peer Observation: Learning from One Another"
Richardson, Matthew O.
Thought and Action 16, no. 1 (2000): 9-20.
2000

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"Looking for Good Teaching: A Guide to Peer Observation"
Helling, Barbara B.
Journal of Staff, Program, and Organization Development 6, no. 4 (1998): 147-158
1988

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General Education and the Assessment Reform Agenda
Ewell, Peter
Association of American Colleges and Universities, Washington, D.C.
2004
From the Publisher
Written by national expert on assessment, Peter Ewell, this paper reflects on the challenges of general education and assessment reform in the context of recent calls for accountability in higher education. The author argues that by focusing on abilities, alignment, assessment, and action, campuses can both improve general education programs and demonstrate student achievement of learning outcomes key to success in the 21st...

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The Art & Science of Assessing General Education Outcomes: A Practical Guide
Leskes, Andrea and Barbara D. Wright
Association of American Colleges and Universities, Washington, D.C.
2005
From the Publisher
This guide offers practical recommendations for individuals involved with the assessment of general education programs and outcomes on campus. It includes a step-by-step assessment checklist, tips for better assessment, and examples of assessment tools, methods, and rubrics for assessing a variety of key outcomes of a quality general education.

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Models of Assessing Institutional and Educational Effectiveness: The Pilot School Project

•	Theological Education

•	Assessment of Teaching

•	Grading

•	Theological Education (ATS Journal)

"Developing an Effective Teaching Portfolio"
Wolf, Kenneth
Educational Leadership 53, no. 6 (1996): 34-37
1996

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•	Faculty Development

Evaluating Teaching in Higher Education: A Vision for the Future
Ryan, Katherine E., editor
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
2000
From the Publisher
This issue analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of current approaches to evaluating teaching and recommends practical strategies for both improving current evaluation methods and developing new ones. The contributors provide an overview of new techniques such as peer evaluations, portfolios, and student ratings of instructors and technologies that can help instructors become more effective and help institutions demonstrate...

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Good Practice in Tenure Evaluation: Advice for Tenured Faculty, Department Chairs, and Academic Administrators
American Council on Education, The American Association of University Professors, and United Educators Insurance
American Council on Education (ACE), Washington, DC
2000
From the Publisher
This report provides guidance on conducting tenure evaluations that are thoughtful and just. Practical suggestions for the tenure evaluation process fall into four themes. The first is that of the need for clarity in standards and procedures for evaluation. Institutions should ensure that their stated criteria for tenure match the criteria that, in actual practice, the institutions apply. A second major theme is that tenure...

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Assessment Matters in Higher Education: Choosing and Using Diverse Approaches
Brown, Sally and Angela Glasner, editors
Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University Press, Philadelphia, PA
1999
From the Publisher
Provides both theoretical perspectives and pragmatic advice on how to conduct effective assessment in higher education, drawing on relevant research and contributors' first-hand experience. Contains sections on a systems approach to assessment, the effectiveness of innovative assessment, assessing practice, and autonomous assessment, peer assessment, and self-assessment. Material is oriented toward the UK and New Zealand experience....

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"Embracing Student Evaluations of Teaching: A Case Study"
Gallagher, Timothy J.
Teaching Sociology 28, no. 2 (2000): 140-147
2000

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"Graded by My Students"
Marcus, Ben
Time 157, no. 1 (2001): 51
2001

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The Course Portfolio: How Faculty Can Examine Their Teaching to Advance Practice and Improve Student Learning
Hutchings, Pat, editor
American Association for Higher Education, Washington, D.C.
1998
From the Publisher
Cousin to The Teaching Portfolio, which documents a broad sampling of a faculty member's pedagogical work, the course portfolio focuses instead on the unfolding of a single course, from conception to results. The volume covers defining features and functions, steps in development, audiences and occasions for use, and the course portfolio's place in the development of a scholarship of teaching and learning. It also includes nine...

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Teaching College in An Age of Accountability
Lyons, Richard E., Meggin McIntosh and Marcella L.Kysilka
Allyn & Bacon, Boston, MA
2003
From the Publisher
Teaching College in an Age of Accountability provides professors with the insights and tools necessary to achieve higher levels on accountability assessment outcomes while preparing students for enhancing their own career success in a more complex future. In recent years, many initiatives have been implemented by a number of state legislatures and boards of trustees to increase "institutional effectiveness." These measures have...

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The Character and Assessment of Learning for Religious Vocation

•	Theological Education

•	Assessment of Teaching

•	Ministerial Formation

•	Theological Education (ATS Journal)

Redesigning Higher Education: Producing Dramatic Gains in Student Learning
Gardiner, Lion F.
ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report 7, George Washington Univ. Press, Washington, D.C.
1994
From the Publisher
Scrutinizes the theoretical links between critique and prescription. Examines the growing wisdom on student learning, college outcomes, and different options for instruction and assessment.

•	Assessment of Teaching

•	The Academy

"Teaching Goals Inventory and Self-Scorable Worksheet"
Angelo, Thomas, and Patricia Cross
in Classroom Assessment Techniques (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993), 393-397
1993

•	Assessment of Teaching

"Evaluation as Collaborative Inquiry"
Dykstra, Craig
Initiatives in Religion 2, no. 4 (1993): 1-2
1993

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Projects That Matter : Successful Planning and Evaluation for Religious Organizations
From the Publisher
Projects That Matter introduces project leaders and teams to the five basic elements of project design and describes in detail a six-step process for designing and implementing a project evaluation and disseminating evaluation findings. Written for the nonexpert, leaders in religious settings will find Cahalan's guidance clear and invaluable.
Presenting evaluation as a form of collaborative inquiry, Cahalan show how leaders...

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Guide For Reviewing Programs in Religion & Theology
From the Publisher
Modeled on guides produced for other fields, this document is intended to provide department chairs and deans with a set of strategic questions and suggested steps for conducing a review of their program. We intend this document to be helpful for chairs undertaking annual reviews and reviews for accrediting agencies. It contains an introductory statement on the study of religion; a discussion of the preliminary steps in constructing...

•	Faculty Development

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Making Teaching and Learning Visible: Course Portfolios and the Peer Review of Teaching
Bernstein, Daniel, Amy Nelson Burnett, Amy Goodburn, and Paul Savory
Anker Publishing Company, Bolton, MA
2006
From the Publisher
With higher education s refocus over the last three decades on bringing greater recognition and reward to good teaching, the idea of peer review has gained popularity. One tool for documenting and reflecting on the quality of teaching and student learning is a course portfolio. A course portfolio captures and makes visible the careful, difficult, and intentional scholarly work of planning and teaching a course.
Illustrated...

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Peer Review of Teaching: A Sourcebook, 2nd Edition
Chism, Nancy Van Note Van and Grady W. Chism
Anker Publishing, Bolton, MA
2007
From the Publisher
The new edition of this bestselling book builds on the author s extensive administrative and consulting experience as well as scholarship on faculty rewards. It includes additional discussion of important foundational issues as well as practical forms and ideas gleaned from disciplinary groups and campuses throughout the nation. Like the first edition of Peer Review of Teaching, this new edition is offered in the hope that providing...

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Inquiry Into the College Classroom: A Journey Toward Scholarly Teaching
Savory, Paul, Amy Nelson Burnett and Amy Goodburn
Anker Publishing Company, Bolton, MA
2007
From the Publisher
An essential companion for university faculty interested in conducting scholarly inquiry into their classroom teaching, this practical guide presents a formal model for making visible the careful, difficult, and intentional scholarly work entailed in exploring a teaching question. As a how-to guide, this is an invaluable resource for planning and conducting classroom research formulating questions and hypotheses, defining a...

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Evaluating Faculty Performance: A Practical Guide to Assessing Teaching, Research, and Service
Seldin, Peter, and Associates
Anker Publishing Company, now part of Jossey-Bass, an Imprint of John Wiley & Sons, San Francisco
2006
From the Publisher
Written by experts in teaching and administration, this guide offers practical, research-based information for faculty members and administrators in search of new approaches for assessing and improving faculty potential. By recognizing that faculty evaluation can be a difficult, time-consuming, and costly process, the authors of Evaluating Faculty Performance have distilled existing evaluation practices into useful recommendations...

•	Faculty Development

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Assessment for Excellence: The Philosophy and Practice of Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education
Astin, Alexander W.
Oryx Press, Phoenix, AZ
1993
From the Publisher
In this detailed study, Astin examines why assessment activity has produced such meager results and, just as important, how existing activities can be improved. The author also discusses what new assessment practices can be implemented and shares specific and sometimes startling ideas on: How assessment information can most effectively be used for evaluation How results can be used to enlighten and inform the practitioner How...

•	Assessment of Teaching

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The Academic Portfolio: A Practical Guide to Documenting Teaching, Research, and Service
Peter Seldin and J. Elizabeth Miller
Jossey-Bass, a Wiley Imprint, San Francisco
2009
From The Publisher

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...

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