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IDC In-House Resources
The following is a list of the resources contained within the Instructional Development Center in SCB 2401.
IDC In-House Periodicals
Periodical Title: About Campus
Frequency: Bi-Monthly
Web Address: www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/86513696
Description: Sponsored by the American College Personnel Association, About Campus is dedicated to the idea that student learning is the responsibility of all educators on campus. Six times a year, About Campus offers an exciting and eclectic mix of articles and features--all designed to illuminate the critical issues faced by both student affairs and academic affairs staff as they work on the shared goal that brought them to the same campus in the first place: to help students learn.
Periodical Title: Adjunct Advocate
Frequency: Bi-Monthly
Web Address: www.adjunctnation.com/magazine/
Periodical Title: Assessing Writing
Frequency: Tri Annually
Web Address: www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journalDescription.cws_home/620369/Description
Description: Assessing Writing is a refereed international journal providing a forum for ideas, research and practice on the assessment of written language. Assessing Writing publishes articles, book reviews, conference reports, and academic exchanges concerning writing assessments of all kinds, including traditional ('direct' and standardised forms of) testing of writing, alternative performance assessments (such as portfolios), workplace sampling and classroom assessment. The journal focuses on all stages of the writing assessment process, including needs evaluation, assessment creation, implementation, and validation, and test development; it aims to value all perspectives on writing assessment as process, product and politics (test takers and raters; test developers and agencies; educational administrations; and political motivations). The journal is interested in review essays of key issues in the theory and practice of writing assessment.
Periodical Title: Assessment Update
Frequency: Bi Monthly
Web Address: www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-AU.html
Description: Assessment Update is dedicated to covering the latest developments in the rapidly evolving area of higher education assessment. Assessment Update offers all academic leaders up-to-date information and practical advice on conducting assessments in a range of areas, including student learning and outcomes, faculty instruction, academic programs and curricula, student services, and overall institutional functioning.
Periodical Title: Change
Frequency: Bi Monthly
Web Address: http://www.heldref.org/change.php
Description: The magazine of higher learning
Periodical Title: Community College Review
Frequency: Quarterly
Web Address: http://ced.ncsu.edu/acce/ccr/ccreview.htm
Description: The Review publishes contributions from scholars and practitioners who report on research, identify important issues and trends in community college education, and review recent books that involve community colleges. Articles range from 12 to 24 finished pages long, including references and tables or other graphic material.
Periodical Title: Community College Week
Frequency: Bi Weekly
Web Address: www.ccweek.com
Description: Since 1988, Community College Week has been the independent source of in-depth information for and about two-year college faculty, administrators and trustees. Published biweekly, Community College Week's readers include college presidents, chief academic officers, faculty, student-service professionals, librarians and other educators. In each edition, our readers find news and features not provided by other news sources, including analyses of critical academic trends and issues, vital statistics, technology updates and employment opportunities.
Periodical Title: Higher Education Abstracts
Frequency: Quarterly
Web Address: www.highereducationabstracts.org
Description: Abstracts journal articles, conference papers, research reports, and books pertaining to higher education; some of the journals indexed are not indexed in ERIC or Education Abstracts. Higher Education Abstracts covers more than 200 journals in the fields of education, computer sciences, management, psychology, sociology, and law; papers read at meetings of major education and social sciences conferences, and research reports issued by professional organizations, government agencies, and foundations. Coverage includes materials from the United States and Canada and from foreign publications printed in English.
Periodical Title: Journal of College Reading and Learning
Frequency: Semi Annually
Web Address: www.crla.net/journal.htm
Description: The Journal of College Reading and Learning (JCRL), published in fall and spring, is a national, peer reviewed forum for the theory, research, and policy related to reading improvement and learning assistance at the two-and four-year college level. It publishes reports of original research and articles linking theory, research, or policy to practice.
Periodical Title: Journal of Developmental Education
Frequency: Tri Annually
Web Address: www.ncde.appstate.edu/jde.htm
Description: The Journal is published as a forum for educators concerned with the practice, theory, research, and news of the postsecondary developmental and remedial community. Its content focuses on basic skills education and includes topics such as writing, mathematics, reading, tutoring, administration, and program evaluation. Emphasis is placed on manuscripts that relate education theory to practical teaching and learning, expand current knowledge, or have a clearly demonstrated impact on the field.
Periodical Title: Journal of General Education
Frequency: Quarterly
Web Address: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_general_education/
Description: For faculty, administrators, and policymakers, JGE is the professional forum for discussing issues in general education today. JGE addresses the general education concerns of community colleges, four-year colleges, universities, and state systems. Along with perceptive essays on the role of general education today, JGE features articles on innovative methods in teaching and assessment, profiles of exemplary general education programs, case studies of successful curriculum development efforts, and reviews of books and monographs related to general education.
Periodical Title: Journal of Higher Education
Frequency: Bi Monthly
Web Address: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_higher_education/index.html
Description: Founded in 1930, The Journal of Higher Education is the leading scholarly journal on the institution of higher education. Articles combine disciplinary methods with critical insight to investigate issues important to faculty, administrators, and program managers.
Periodical Title: Mathematics Teacher
Frequency: Monthly
Web Address: http://my.nctm.org/eresources/journal_home.asp?journal_id=2
Description: Mathematics Teacher (MT) is an official journal of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and is intended as a resource for high school students, teachers, and teacher educators. The focus of the journal is on intuitive, exploratory investigations that use informal reasoning to help students develop a strong conceptual basis that leads to greater mathematical abstraction. The journal's articles have won numerous awards, including honors from the Society of National Association Publications.
Periodical Title: New Directions for Community Colleges
Frequency: Quarterly
Web Address: www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jabout/86011359/ProductInformation.html
Description: Essential to the professional libraries of presidents, vice presidents, deans, and other leaders in today's open-door institutions, New Directions for Community Colleges provides expert guidance in meeting the challenges of their distinctive and expanding educational mission.
Periodical Title: New Directions for Teaching and Learning
Frequency: Quarterly
Web Address: www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-TL.html
Description: New Directions for Teaching and Learning continues to offer a comprehensive range of ideas and techniques for improving college teaching based on the experience of seasoned instructors and on the latest findings of educational and psychological researchers.
Periodical Title: Research & Teaching in Developmental Education
Frequency: Bi-annually
Web Address: www.nyclsa.org/rtde_editorialpolicy.htm
Description: Research and Teaching in Developmental Education (ISSN 1046-3364) is the Journal of the New York State College Learning Skills Association. The editors invite manuscripts on a variety of topics related to developmental education across the disciplines. Of Particular interest are articles that address measurement and evaluation procedures; program design and implementation; research and pedagogy as they inform, or are informed by, current theory; and interdisciplinary approaches to major concerns in developmental education.
Periodical Title: Research in Developmental Education
Frequency: Quarterly
Web Address: www.ncde.appstate.edu/ride.htm
Description: This is an informative newsletter designed to review current research in areas relating to the practice of developmental education or report on up-to-date research studies. Presented in a single article, newsletter format, Research in Developmental Education (RiDE) provides an invaluable resource for students, instructors, researchers, and administrators. The publication offers four issues per volume and Author's Guidelines are available upon request.
IDC In-House Books
Title: Assessing for learning: Building a sustainable commitment across the institution
Author: Maki, P.
Year: 2004
Publisher: Stylus Publishing
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ISBN: 1579220878
Category: Assessment- Higher Education
Title: Assessment clear and simple: A practical guide for institutions, departments, and general education
Author: Walvoord, B.
Year: 2004
Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publishers
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ISBN: 0787973114
Category: Assessment- Higher Education
Title: Assessment in practice: Putting principles to work on college campuses
Author: Banta, T, Lund, J., Black, K., & Oblander, F.
Year: 1996
Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publishers
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ISBN: 0787901342
Category: Assessment- Higher Education
Title: Better teaching, more learning: Strategies for success in postsecondary settings
Author: Davis, J.
Year: 1993
Publisher: Oryx Press
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ISBN: 0897748131
Category: Teaching Techniques- Higher Education
Title: Classroom assessment techniques: A handbook for college teachers
Author: Angelo, T. & Cross, K.
Year: 1993 (2nd ed.)
Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publishers
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ISBN: 1555425003
Category: Assessment- Higher Education
Title: Classroom research: Implementing the scholarship of teaching
Author: Cross, K. & Steadman, M.
Year: 1996
Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publishers
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ISBN: 0787902888
Category: Scholarship of Teaching- Higher Education
Title: Craft of teaching (the)
Author: Eble, K.
Year: 1988
Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publishers
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ISBN: 1555420885
Category: Teaching Techniques- Higher Education
Title: Educative assessment: Designing assessments to inform and improve student performance
Author: Wiggins, G.
Year: 1998
Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publishers
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ISBN: 0787908487
Category: Assessment- Higher Education
Title: Faculty guidebook: A comprehensive tool for improving faculty performance
Author: Beyerlein, S.W., Homes, C. & Apple, D.K.
Year: 2006
Publisher: Pacific Crest
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Category: Faculty Development- Higher Education
Title: Foundations of mathematics: Instructor's guide
Author: Fremeau, J., Senior Editor
Year: 2005
Publisher: Pacific Crest
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Category: Mathematics- Higher Education
Title: Handbook for adjunct/part-time faculty and teachers of adults
Author: Greive, D.
Year: 2003 (5th Ed.)
Publisher: Adjunct Advocate
ISBN: 0940017229
Category: Faculty Development- Higher Education
Title: Key resources on teaching, learning, curriculum, and faculty development
Author: Menges, R. & Mathis, B.
Year: 1988
Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publishers
ISBN: 1555421180
Category: Faculty Development- Higher Education
Title: Mastering the techniques of teaching
Author: Lowman, J.
Year: 1995 (2nd Ed.)
Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publishers
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ISBN: 078790127X
Category: Teaching Techniques- Higher Education
Title: Power of problem-based learning (the): A practical "how to" for teaching undergraduate courses in any discipline
Author: Edited by Duch, B., Groh, S., Allen, D.
Year: 2001
Publisher: Stylus
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Category: Teaching Techniques- Higher Education
Title: Rereading America: Cultural contexts for critical thinking and writing
Author: Colombo, G., Cullen, R. & Lisle, B.
Year: 1992 (2nd Ed.)
Publisher: Bedford Books
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ISBN: 0312052596
Category: Reading- Higher Education
Title: "Sit & Get" won't grow dendrites: 20 professional learning strategies that engage the adult brain
Author: Tate, M.
Year: 2004
Publisher: Corwin Press
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ISBN: 0761931546
Category: Teaching Techniques- Higher Education
Title: Teaching advanced skills to at-risk students: Views from research and practice
Author: Means, B, Chelemer, C. & Knapp, M.
Year: 1991
Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publishers
ISBN: 1555423930
Category: Teaching Techniques- Higher Education
Title: Teaching at a distance with the merging technologies: An instructional systems approach
Author: Cyrs, T. & Conway, E.
Year: 1997
Publisher: Center for Educational Development, New Mexico State University
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Category: Distance Education- Higher Education
Title: Teaching critical thinking in the arts and humanities
Author: ed. Cromwell, L.
Year: 1986
Publisher: Alverno Productions
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Category: Teaching Techniques- Higher Education
Title: Team-based learning: A transformative use of small groups in college teaching
Author: ed. by Michaelsen, L., Knight, A. & Fink, L.
Year: 2004
Publisher: Stylus Publishing
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ISBN: 089789863X
Category: Teaching Techniques- Higher Education
Title: Virtual student (the): A profile and guide to working with online learners
Author: Palloff, R. & Pratt, K.
Year: 2003
Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publishers
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ISBN: 0787964743
Category: Distance Education- Higher Education
