INFORMATION REGARDING THE 2007 PROVOST SEMINAR ON TEACHING & LEARNING:
VIEW: AGENDA | RESOURCES | POSTER SHOWCASE | RICHARD LIGHT BIO
Close to 150 Georgetown faculty, staff and students joined Provost O'Donnell, Kathy Olesko and Randy Bass for Dr. Richard Light's engaging talk at the second annual Provost's Seminar on Teaching and Learning. Based on his ongoing assessment study at Harvard, Light shared his research questions, what they learned from student responses, and the changes they made on campus to the advising process, their assessments to gauge improvement in writing skills, and their efforts to increase student academic satisfaction. Participants took part in hour-long breakout discussions to share their thoughts on how assessment studies at GU could inform us about grade inflation, general education, the major, and undergraduate research and scholarship.
AGENDA
9:30-11:00 Plenary
» Opening Remarks, James J. O'Donnell, Provost and Professor of Classics» Update on the Findings of the Intellectual Life Report Committee, Kathy Olesko, History and Chair of the ILR Committee
» Presentation and Discussion "How doing assesment work, in its simplest format, can shed light on students' learning and 'values'" Richard Light, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
11:00-11:50 Breakout Discussions and Working Sessions:
» Grade Inflation and Student Work» Scientific and Quantitative Literacy
» Assessment and the General Education Curriculum
» Undergraduate Research, Inquiry, and Independent Learning
12:00-1:30 Buffet Lunch
Discussion and Brief Reports from working sessions, James J. O'DonnellComment and Discussion on Understanding the Undergraduate Experience, Richard Light
POSTER SHOWCASE
The following posters showcasing innovative faculty teaching projects and graduate student technology research projects were displayed at Provost's Day 2007. Many of these posters touch upon themes central to the Undergraduate Learning Initiative, such as the value of learning outside the classroom, inquiry-based learning and student-driven research projects.
- Case Study Method by Sandeep Dahiya, Associate Professor, MSB
- Civic Engagement and Education by Heather Voke, Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department; Sabrina Karim, Georgetown College ’07; Debra Iverson, Ballou High School by
- Community-based Learning and Research by Deanna Cooke, Research Director, CSJ; Jane Kirchner, Program Coordinator for CBL/Justice & Peace; Kathleen Maas Weigert, Executive Director, CSJ
- Connecting the Safety Net by CNDLS, CSJ, CAPS, Health Education, Student Affairs
- Dispatches from Abroad by Nate Hultman, Associate Professor, SFS
- Filming for Social Justice by Bernie Cook, Assistant Dean, Georgetown College
- Ignatius Seminars by Georgetown College
- myDante by Frank Ambrosio, Associate Professor, Philosophy Department
- Project DC – Urban Research Internship by Deanna Cooke, Research Director, CSJ
- Student-Centered Teaching through Guided Inquiry Learning by YuYe Tong, Assistant Professor, Chemistry Department
- Treasure Hunt: Practice, Feedback, Learner Attention and L2 Development by Hui-Chen Hsieh, Ph.D. Candidate, Spanish and Portuguese Department
- Undergraduate Learning Initiative by Office of the Provost
RICHARD J. LIGHT
Hailing from Harvard University's John F Kennedy School of Government, Richard J. Light is the Walter H. Gale Professor of Education. Dr. Light's work explores challenging problems in American higher education. His most recent book, Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds, won the Stone Award for the best book on education and society. Light has served as President of the American Evaluation Association, on the National Board of the American Association of Higher Education, and on the National Board of the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education. He has chaired the Panel on American Education for the National Academy of Sciences. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and chairs its project to explore changing demographics in education. At the Kennedy School, Light is Chair of a university-wide program called the Young Faculty Leaders Forum, designed to expose faculty from 16 leading American universities to leaders from both business and government.
Professor Light is the author of By Design: Planning Research on Higher Education (along with Judith D. Singer and John B. Willett, Harvard University Press, 1990), Summing Up: The Science of Reviewing Research (with David Pillimer, Harvard University Press, 1984) and Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds (Harvard University Press, 2001, 2004), among others.
For more information, visit http://ksgfaculty.harvard.edu/richard_light
