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Cognition and Student
Learning
Liberal Education
Summer 2003
Volume 89, Number 3
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CONTENTS:
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
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DIVERSITY,
COMPLEXITY, AND THE MISMEASURE OF LEARNING
by Carol Geary Schneider
FEATURED TOPIC
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STUDENT INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT: AN INTRODUCTION
By Jack Meacham
The level of student intellectual development
provides a key to making course planning more effective
for facilitating learning
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THE INFLUENCE OF A CLASSIC
By L. Lee Knefelkamp
William Perry’s work was seminal and
has continued to influence research on college students’
intellectual and ethical development. His theory
has been extended and accommodates new cultural
perspectives and values affecting contemporary student
populations.
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UNDERSTANDING
AND VALUING KNOWING AS DEVELOPMENTAL
GOALS
By Deanna Kuhn
At every stage of student learning, the intellectual
activities that students undertake should be chosen
to reveal the study’s intrinsic worth. That
value motivates and enables the learner to freely
engage in an endeavor recognized as worthwhile.
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BUILDING VS. BORROWING: THE CHALLENGE OF
ACTIVELY CONSTRUCTING IDEAS
By Marc Schwartz and Kurt Fischer
The capacity for abstract reasoning can emerge through
students’ coordinating levels of understanding
through time, experience, and appropriate challenge.
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INTELLECTUAL
FREEDOM FOR INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT
By David Moshman
Intellectual development is facilitated by
constructive processes of reflection, coordination,
and social interaction. These require an environment
of free exchange of various ideas and perspectives.
GREATER EXPECTATIONS
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MAKING PROGRAM ASSESSMENT WORK: A PROFILE
OF THE U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY
By Barbara J. Millis, James K. Lowe, and Anthony
J. Aretz
Whether at the institutional, departmental, or course
level, assessment programs are aligned with the
mission, goals, and values of the Academy. A variety
of measures involving an array of individuals inside
and outside the institution enables decision making
to achieve educational quality.
PERSPECTIVES
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PERIPHERAL
VISIONS: TOWARDS A GEOETHICS OF CITIZENSHIP
By Eve Walsh Stoddard and Grant H. Cornwell
To be a patriotic American is to be cosmopolitan,
i.e., a citizen of the world. What is proposed is
a methodology designed to develop the skills and
capacities needed for the knowledge and responsibility
of citizens.
- REMARKS ON THE LIBERAL ARTS
By Alan Greenspan
MY VIEW
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EMPOWERING LEADERS TO SPEAK OUT FOR LIBERAL
EDUCATION
By Nicholas H. Farnham
A summer seminar for college and university leaders
offers a re-immersion in the liberal arts, a professional
experience suited to their intellectual renewal.
The Educational Leadership Program has a track record
that demonstrates its effectiveness.
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