35 pages • 1 hour read
What the Best College Teachers Do
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004
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Essay Topics
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What do you consider Ken Bain’s most important finding in What the Best College Teachers Do? How can this finding inform and improve college teaching?
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Are there any flaws in Bain’s research methods and thus his arguments? How can these flaws be rectified with more recent methods (i.e., technology, etc.)?
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According to Bain, what is problematic about teachers’ transfer of knowledge? How can this method be improved?
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