New in the LES Library

The LES Library has the following new books available to CSB/SJU faculty.

New Directions for Teaching and Learning
Winter 2006 -  Developing Student Expertise and Community: Lessons from How People Learn

• The Emergence of a Community of Practice in Engineering Education
• Desegregated Learning: An Innovative Framework for Programs of Study
• The Development of Adaptive Expertise in Biotransport
• Establishing Experiences to Develop a Wisdom of Professional Practice
• Teaching Writing in a Laboratory-Based Engineering Course with a "How People Learn" Framework
• Learning Content Using Complex Data in Project-Based Science: An Example from High School Biology in Urban Classrooms
• The Effect of a Bioengineering Unit Across High School Contexts: An Initial Investigation in Urban, Suburban, and Rural Domains
• Implementing Learning-Science Research in University Settings: New Research Opportunities

Change, The Magazine of Higher Education
January/February 2007 

• Will Higher Education Pass A Test of Leadership?
• How Should States Respond to A Test of Leadership?
• Counting and Recounting: Assessment and the Quest for Accountability
• Assessing Student Learning Responsibly: From History to an Audacious Proposal
• Fixed Tuition Pricing: A Solution That May Be Worse Than the Problem
• From the Provincial to the International: The Missouri Southern Story
• Listening to Students: Intellectual Entrepreneurship: Improving Education and Increasing Diversity

The National Teaching and Learning Forum
December 2006

• Teaching Naked: Why Removing Technology Will Improve Student Learning
• A Tug Toward the Center
• Teacher as Action Researcher
• Virtually Authentic: using the Internet to Bring the World to Students
• The Legacy of Sad Sam

College Teaching
Fall 2006 

• Teaching Calculus and Other Challenging Courses to Nontraditional and At-Risk Students at a Research University
• Grading Without Points: Does it Hurt Student Performance?
• Toward College Success: Internalizing Active and Dynamic Strategies
• The Influence of Service Learning on Students' Personal and Social Development
•  Entry-Year Teachers Inside and Outside of the Academy
• Encouraging Critical Thinking in Student Library Research: An Application of National Standards