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Are you smart enough? : how colleges' obsession with smartness shortchanges students, Alexander W. Astin
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- Summary
- This book explores the many ways in which the obsession with "being smart" distorts the life of a typical college or university, and how this obsession leads to a higher education that shortchanges the majority of students, and by extension, our society's need for an educated population. The author calls on his colleagues in higher education to return the focus to the true mission of developing the potential of each student: However "smart" they are when they get to college, both the student and the college should be able to show what they learned while there. Unfortunately, colleges and universities have embraced two very narrow definitions of smartness: the course grade and especially the standardized test. A large body of research shows that it will be very difficult for colleges to fulfill their stated mission unless they substantially broaden their conception to include student qualities such as leadership, social responsibility, honesty, empathy, and citizenship
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition
- Extent
- x, 147 pages
- Contents
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- The higher education pecking order
- Admissions madness
- Developing smartness
- Higher education's true mission
- The challenge to engage educational equity
- Which kinds of smartness really matter?
- Faculty culture
- The core of the problem
- Is there any way out?
- Isbn
- 9781620364475
- Label
- Are you smart enough? : how colleges' obsession with smartness shortchanges students
- Title
- Are you smart enough?
- Title remainder
- how colleges' obsession with smartness shortchanges students
- Statement of responsibility
- Alexander W. Astin
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This book explores the many ways in which the obsession with "being smart" distorts the life of a typical college or university, and how this obsession leads to a higher education that shortchanges the majority of students, and by extension, our society's need for an educated population. The author calls on his colleagues in higher education to return the focus to the true mission of developing the potential of each student: However "smart" they are when they get to college, both the student and the college should be able to show what they learned while there. Unfortunately, colleges and universities have embraced two very narrow definitions of smartness: the course grade and especially the standardized test. A large body of research shows that it will be very difficult for colleges to fulfill their stated mission unless they substantially broaden their conception to include student qualities such as leadership, social responsibility, honesty, empathy, and citizenship
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Astin, Alexander W
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- LB2368
- LC item number
- .A88 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- College students
- Educational tests and measurements
- Educational equalization
- Label
- Are you smart enough? : how colleges' obsession with smartness shortchanges students, Alexander W. Astin
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The higher education pecking order -- Admissions madness -- Developing smartness -- Higher education's true mission -- The challenge to engage educational equity -- Which kinds of smartness really matter? -- Faculty culture -- The core of the problem -- Is there any way out?
- Control code
- 922914381
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition
- Extent
- x, 147 pages
- Isbn
- 9781620364475
- Lccn
- 2015041032
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Note
- USD's Center for Educational Excellence (CEE) Library copy is located in the Copley Library Faculty Reading Room
- System control number
- (OCoLC)922914381
- Label
- Are you smart enough? : how colleges' obsession with smartness shortchanges students, Alexander W. Astin
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The higher education pecking order -- Admissions madness -- Developing smartness -- Higher education's true mission -- The challenge to engage educational equity -- Which kinds of smartness really matter? -- Faculty culture -- The core of the problem -- Is there any way out?
- Control code
- 922914381
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition
- Extent
- x, 147 pages
- Isbn
- 9781620364475
- Lccn
- 2015041032
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- USD's Center for Educational Excellence (CEE) Library copy is located in the Copley Library Faculty Reading Room
- System control number
- (OCoLC)922914381
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