Symposium / Thinking Academic Evaluation after Michèle Lamont ’ s How Professors Think Response : Inside the Sausage Factory

How Quality Is Recognized by Peer Review Panels: The Case of the Humanities

This paper summarizes key findings of our research on peer review, which challenge the separation between cognitive and non-cognitive aspects of evaluation. Here we highlight some of the key findings from this research and discuss its relevance for understanding academic evaluation in the humanities. We summarize the role of informal rules, the impact of evaluation settings on rules, definition...

Assessing Academic Challenges for Their Contribution to Cognitive Development

The continual improvement of higher education is a concern for anyone who believes that students should be completing their higher education experience with a well-developed ability to think critically at higher levels of cognition. While research has been conducted that assesses the role of teacher behaviors and characteristics and instructional methods in the development of students ’ cogniti...

پیش بینی موفقیت تحصیلی بر اساس تفکر نقاد و مولفه های جمعیت شناختی

Background and objective: Identifying factors affecting students' academic achievement and paying attention to them is a step toward sustainable development. The aim of this study is predicting academic achievement through components of critical thinking and some sociodemographic variables. Materials and Method: 114 first-year medical student of Tehran University of Medical Sciences participat...

Rethinking comparative cultural sociology Repertoires of evaluation in France and the United States

Journal of Agricultural Education - Vol. 38

The American higher education system has been under close scrutiny for more than a decade. The cause is clear: a lack of correspondence between that which is believed to be requiredfor critical thinking in adulthood and that which universities are teaching. The purpose of this study, therefore, was to describe the opportunities given to students to reach higher cognitive levels through professo...