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Jump to:  Classroom Assessment Techniques  |  Laws, Policies & Regulations  |  Organizations & Agencies  |  Plagiarism & Cheating | Research & Statistics  | SEE ALSO Copyright, and the CCC Faculty Handbook

Berkeley Compendium of Suggestion for Teaching with Excellence
Barbara Gross Davis, UC Berkeley

The Center for Teaching Excellence (Lansing Community College)

The Chronicle of Higher Education

Education Week on the Web

Explorations in Learning & Instruction: The Theory Into Practice (TIP) Database 
Descriptions of 50 major theories of learning and instruction

Innovation Abstracts - a publication from NISOD of practitioner-written descriptions of successful teaching and learning practices and strategies. Obtain login name and password from Staff Development Office.

Just-In-Time Teaching - a strategy based on interaction between web-based assignments and an active learner classroom; students respond online to reading or other assignment and teacher reads them "just in time" to adjust next classroom lesson

National Archives: The Digital Classroom
Primary Sources, Activities and Training for Educators & Students (National Archives)

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, 3rd edition, 2002

NISODcasts - Podcasts from National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development, some topics are teaching-related. Obtain login name and password from Staff Development Office.

Resources for America's Teachers
Annenberg Classroom - lesson plans and guides to teaching about the government

The Seven Principles for Good Practice: Enhancing Student Learning

Teaching Tips Index
Honolulu Community College

Teaching Tolerace
From the Southern Poverty Law Center

UCLA Community College Studies Resources & Information

Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education
Focus is on interdisciplinary, collaborative learning (from Evergreen State College)

Writing Across the Curriculum and Writing in the Disciplines
         

CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUES

    SEE ALSO Classroom Assessment Group Wiki (open to CCC faculty only; click on Request Access button)

Classroom Assessment Technique: Concept Maps - Blinkx video featuring Dr. Karen Rohrbauck Stout, an associate professor at Western Washington University (6.5 min)

Classroom Assessment Techniques - YouTube video featuring Dr. Shaun Longstreet, UC Irvine - Teaching & Technology Learning Center. Short intro to different types of learning and how to use CAT's (10 min)

Field-Tested Learning Assessment Guide (FLAG) - designed by/for science, math, engineering and technology instructors

IAR: Assess Teaching - Classroom Assessment Techniques (University of Texas at Austin)

Strategies for Assessing Learning Effectiveness - a tutorial by by Constance A. Steinkuehler & Sharon J. Derry, University of Wisconsin–Madison
 

LAWS, POLICIES & REGULATIONS

See also:  Copyright

California Code of Regulations
SEE Title 5: Education, Division 6: CA Community Colleges

California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office

California Law: Codes 
Easier than other site, when have specific section number and/or need to do keyword search
SEE Title 5: Education, Division 6: CA Community Colleges

Contra Costa Community College District Policies and Procedures
    

ORGANIZATIONS & AGENCIES

California Community College Association for Occupational Education

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

Community College League

ED Net   (Economic and Workforce Development Program)

Fulbright Scholar Program
Center for the International Exchange of Scholars

U.S. Dept. of Education
    

PLAGIARISM & CHEATING

See also:  Copyright

Academic Honesty 
University of Puget Sound handbook

Academic Integrity

Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers

Avoiding Plagiarism
Glendale Community College Library

Avoiding Plagiarism
Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)

Cheatability Rubric
How cheatable is your online course?
From Utah Valley University

CLICS: Chapter 9: Legal & Ethical Information Issues
Part of the CCC Library Information Competency Tutorial. See Plagiarism and Citing Sources sections.

Plagiarism.Org

Plagiarism: What It Is and How to Recognize and Avoid It
Indiana University
    

RESEARCH & STATISTICS

Community College Survey of Student Engagement
See also: Key findings on the 5 benchmarks of effective educational practice in community colleges

The Condition of Education (NCES reports)

ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) (National Library of Education)
Has citations 1966 - present; some full-text 1993 - present; can limit search to free full-text.

"Ask ERIC" resources are now located at Educator's Reference Desk 

Measuring Up: The State-by-State Report Card for Higher Education

National Center for Education Statistics

National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy
    

Last updated 15 January 2009

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