The academic portfolio: a practical guide to documenting teaching, research, and service

There is a gap in the professional literature for a book that offers help to faculty for documenting their teaching, research/scholarship, and service. This book sets forth the what, why, and how to develop comprehensive professionalportfolios. It includes an extensively tested, step-by-step approach to create a professional portfolio, discusses in detail how to prepare it for tenure, promotion, and retention decisions, provides answers to common questions, and includes the actual portfolios of 16 faculty members from a range of disciplines and institutions. Written for faculty members, administrators, promotion and tenure committee members. INDICE: Preface. Acknowledgments. About the Authors. About the Contributors. 1. The Academic Portfolio Concept. 2. Choosing Items for the Academic Portfolio. 3. Preparing the Portfolio. 4. Suggestions for Improving the Portfolio. 5. Evaluating the Portfolio for Personnel Decisions. 6. Answers to Common Questions . 7. Sample Portfolios from Across Disciplines. Biomedical Engineering (Timothy M. Wick). Bioscience and Biotechnology (Shivanthi Anandan). Child and Family Studies (Lynda Henley Walters). Education (Robert M. Maninger and Clement A. Seldin). English (John Zubizarreta). Environmental Engineering (Charles N. Haas). Foreign Languages and Literature (Sheri Spaine Long). Geology and Environmental Science (Ranjan S. Muttiah). Jazz and Contemporary Music (ReginaldWorkman). Mathematical Sciences (Lisa A. Oberbroeckling). Nutritional Sciences (Gina Jarman Hill). Pastoral Counseling (Kelly Murray). Pediatric Emergency Medicine (Annalise Sorrentino). Political Science (Carrie Liu Currier and Marlene K. Sokolon). Product Design (Robert Kirkbride). Psychology (Pamela A. Geller). References. Index.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-25699-2
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 384
• Fecha Publicación: 29/10/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés