The academic portfolio
Subtitle: a practical guide to documenting teaching, research, and service
By: Peter Seldin, J. Elizabeth Miller.
Contributors: Miller, J. Elizabeth, 1958-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2008
Place of publication: San Francisco, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780470256992
Subjects: Portfolios in education
Description: This comprehensive book focuses squarely on academic portfolios, which may prove to be the most innovative and promising faculty evaluation and development technique in years. The authors identify key issues, red flag warnings, and benchmarks for success, describing the what, why, and how of developing academic portfolios. The book includes an extensively tested step-by-step approach to creating portfolios and lists 21 possible portfolio items covering teaching, research/scholarship, and service from which faculty can choose the ones most relevant to them.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The academic portfolio concept; title: Choosing items for the academic portfolio; title: Preparing the portfolio; title: Suggestions for improving the portfolio; title: Evaluating the portfolio for personnel decisions; title: Answers to common questions; title: Sample portfolios from across disciplines.