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26. Kuh et al., Success in College. See also National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), National Benchmarks of Effective Educational Practice (Bloomington, IN: Center for Postsecondary Research, Indiana University Bloomington, 2000).
27. Kuh et al., Success in College. See also George D. Kuh et al., aUnmasking the Effects of Student Engagement on College Grades and Persistencea (paper presented at the annual meeting for the American Educational Research a.s.sociation, Chicago, April 9a"13, 2007).
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30. Robert B. Barr and John Tagg, aFrom Teaching to Learning: A New Paradigm for Undergraduate Education,a Change 27 (1995): 12a"25. For a review of scholarship on higher-education teaching and learning, see Ernest T. Pascarella and Patrick T. Terenzini, How College Affects Students: A Third Decade of Research (San Francisco: Jossey-Ba.s.s, 2005).
31. Martha Stone Wiske, ed., Teaching for Understanding: Linking Research with Practice (San Francisco: Jossey-Ba.s.s, 1998), 350. See also website for Harvard Project Zero at National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), Experiences that Matter: Enhancing Student Learning and Success (Bloomington, IN: Center for Postsecondary Research, Indiana University, Bloomington, 2007), 44.
33. Steven Brint, aThe Academic Devolution? Movements to Reform Teaching and Learning in U.S. Colleges and Universities, 1985a"2010.a Working Paper Series (Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley, 2009). For the interpretation of the history of Dewey and progressive education, Brint cites Lawrence Cremin, The Transformation of the School, 1876a"1957 (New York: Random House, 1961).
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35. Robert M. Carini, George D. Kuh, and Stephen P. Klein, aStudent Engagement and Student Learning: Testing the Linkages,a Research in Higher Education 47 (2006): 1a"32.
36. Victor B. Saenz and Douglas S. Barrera, Findings from the 2005 College Student Survey (CSS): National Aggregates (Los Angeles: Higher Education Research Inst.i.tute, 2007), 6.
37. George D. Kuh et al., What Matters to Student Success: A Review of the Literature (Washington, DC: National Postsecondary Education Cooperative, 2006), 68.
38. Chris M. Golde and Timothy M. Dore, At Cross Purposes: What the Experiences of Todayas Graduate Students Reveal about Doctoral Education (Philadelphia: Pew Charitable Trusts, 2001), 22. It is also important to note that making something available does not mean that itas taken advantage of; only slightly more than two-thirds of students who had TA training available to them actually partic.i.p.ated.
39. Jody D. Nyquist et al., The Development of Graduate Students as Prospective Teaching Scholars: A Four Year Longitudinal Study, Final Report (Seattle: University of Washington, 2001).
40. Jody D. Nyguist et al., aOn the Road to Becoming a Professor: The Graduate Student Experience.a Change 31 (1999): 23a"24.
41. Golde and Dore, At Cross Purposes, 18. See also Lee S. Shulman, aThe Doctoral Imperative: Examining the Ends of Erudition.a Talk presented at a Conference on Reexamining the PhD, held in Seattle in April 2000. Reprinted in Teaching as Community Property: Essays on Higher Education (San Francisco: Jossey-Ba.s.s, 2004), 220a"32.
42. Chris Golde, aFindings of the Survey of Doctoral Education and Career Preparation: A Report to the Preparing Future Faculty Programa (unpublished ma.n.u.script, University of Wisconsina"Madison, 2001). For other evaluations and resources, see the Preparing Future Faculty Program website at For the role of teaching in the academy, see essays by Lee S. Shulman in Teaching as Community Property (San Francisco: Jossey-Ba.s.s, 2004). See in particular the following essays: aTeaching as Community Property: Putting an End to Pedagogical Solitude,a 140a"44; aFrom Minsk to Pinsk: Why a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning?,a 156a"62, and aThe Doctoral Imperative: Examining the Ends of Erudition,a 220a"32.
44. Vincent Tinto, Leaving College: Rethinking the Causes and Cures of Student Attrition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993), 206. Emphasis added.
45. Alexander Astin, What Matters in College? Four Critical Years Revisited (San Francisco: Jossey-Ba.s.s, 1993), 196.
46. Camille Charles et al., Taming the River: Negotiating the Academic, Financial, and Social Currents in Selective Colleges and Universities (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009), 226. Emphasis in original.
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50. U.S. Department of Education, A Test of Leadership, 16.
51. Ibid., 13.
52. Ibid.
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