Effective Teaching in Higher Education:
Research and Practice

Edited by Raymond P. Perry, Centre for Higher Education Research and Development, University of Manitoba, and John C. Smart, Department of Leadership, University of Memphis

Does good teaching help college students learn? Fourteen distinguished scholars offer a comprehensive overview of the variety of current research, which abundantly demonstrates that there are a finite number of teaching skills that increase student motivation and scholastic achievement. Intended primarily for faculty in all postsecondary institutions who regularly teach as part of their job descriptions, this volume will also be useful for faculty developers, academic administrators, and policymakers committed to issues involving teaching proficiency

1997: 7 x 10" 464 pages Paper ISBN 0-87586-117-2 $30.00 Cloth ISBN 0-7586-116-4 $64.00

"Often in book reviews one sees the comment that a book should be required reading for a given field. Often the implications of ignoring that comment are negligible (an anonymous reviewer of your next article might suggest adding the book to your footnotes!). This book, however, with its clearly stated connections between research findings and their ramifications, indeed should be required reading for administrators and faculty at any stage of their careers. Many of the studies' results should be made known to students. The results of ignoring such research and discussions of its implications are felt far beyond the narrow field of specialists in higher education research and are all too familiar at many universities." --University Teaching Services Newsletter

"In many respects...the best of the research work that has been done on college teaching." -- Maryellen Weimer in The Teaching Professor

".. a new volume..in which you'll find several brilliant syntheses of the relevant research [on student evaluations] by U.S., Canadian, and Australian investigators." -- Ted Marchese in Change, Sept./Oct. 1997

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