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Direct linkScott, Rachel Elizabeth; Shelley, Anne; Murphy, Julie; Park, Rachel; Jallas, Mallory – College & Research Libraries, 2023
This paper reports the results of a pilot project conducted Spring 2021 in which Milner Library licensed seventy-five assigned texts to fifty-two courses at Illinois State University. The authors used the pilot as a springboard to explore faculty perspectives on textbook selection, textbook affordability, and the role of the academic library in…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Textbooks, Costs
Download full textReck, Rebecca M.; Sreenivas, R. S.; Loui, Michael C. – Advances in Engineering Education, 2019
Laboratory kits allow students to take home laboratory equipment to complete experiments on their own time. Because of the lower cost, laboratory kits expand access to hands-on experiences for online courses and to budget-strapped campuses. Although students like laboratory kits, no previous studies compared student learning objectives on…
Descriptors: Laboratory Experiments, Undergraduate Study, Program Effectiveness, Engineering Education
Parkes, Kelly A.; Rawlings, Jared R. – Contributions to Music Education, 2019
Preparing to become a music teacher educator is a complex process and one component of this process should be learning to model, demonstrate, and teach assessment practices to preservice music educators. The purpose of this exploratory qualitative study was to discover how, and to what extent, music teacher educators (MTEs) are educated about…
Descriptors: Music Teachers, Teacher Educators, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
Litowitz, Len S. – Journal of Technology Education, 2014
Technology & engineering teacher preparation programs at colleges and universities in the United States have been in a state of decline since the 1970's. In the fall of 2013 a study was conducted to compare the required curricula of the 24 undergraduate programs that maintain enrollment of 20 students or more in order to determine what a…
Descriptors: Technology Education, Engineering Education, Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Education Curriculum
Pickard, Elizabeth; Logan, Firouzeh – College & Research Libraries, 2013
In a follow-up study to the ERIAL (Ethnographic Research in Illinois Academic Libraries) Project, librarians at UIC compared the responses of first-generation college freshmen from the original study to those of seniors. The study's aim was to determine whether student information literacy increases as a result of undergraduate education and to…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, College Freshmen, College Seniors, Academic Libraries
Hilborn, Robert C., Ed.; Howes, Ruth H., Ed.; Krane, Kenneth S., Ed. – American Association of Physics Teachers (NJ1), 2003
Strategic Programs for Innovations in Undergraduate Physics (SPIN-UP) set out to answer an intriguing question: Why, in the 1990s, did some physics departments increase the number of bachelor's degrees awarded in physics or maintain a number much higher than the national average for their type of institution? During that decade, the number of…
Descriptors: Physics, College Science, College Programs, Science Education
Illinois State Board of Education, Springfield, Dept. of Planning, Research and Evaluation. – 1982
This is the second of three technical reports that focus on the hiring and evaluation of educational personnel in Illinois. Practices used by colleges and universities to recruit, select, and assess prospective educational personnel at the undergraduate level are presented in this report. A questionnaire was sent to persons responsible for all…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria
