Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (CASTL HE) : records, undated.

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Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (CASTL HE) : records, undated.

For faculty in most settings, teaching is a private act, limited to the teacher and students; it is rarely evaluated by professional peers. "The result, " writes Carnegie Foundation President Lee S. Shulman, "is that those who engage in innovative acts of teaching rarely build upon the work of others; nor can others build upon theirs." CASTL seeks to render teaching public, subject to critical evaluation, and usable by others in both the scholarly and the general community.

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The engineering study sought to develop multiple views of engineering programs in the U.S. with the goal of describing common teaching and learning practices in engineering education. The centerpiece of the study was in-depth case studies or portraits of six schools carefully chosen to represent different kinds of excellence in undergraduate engineering education. EDUCATING ENGINEERS is planned to be published by Jossey-Bass in 2008. Sheri Shepherd was the consulting scholar and lead investigato...