International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Volume 2, Number 2, July 2008

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Book Review

Excerpt

Inside the Undergraduate Experience
Catharine Hoffman Beyer, Gerald Gillmore and Andrew Fisher
(Anker, 2007)

Inside the Undergraduate Experience is a fascinating book for anyone who works in assessment and faculty development, or with undergraduates in learning communities, learning centers or first year experience courses. While it has all the numbers, charts, statistics and graphs that any assessment expert would want, it offers startling insights into the individual nature of undergraduate learning while at the same time giving an incredibly rich overview of what happens to undergraduates, in general, in their college years.

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Bio

Review by
Catherine Ross
University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut, USA
catherine.ross@uconn.edu

I am the Associate Director of the Institute for Teaching & Learning at the University of Connecticut. My Ph.D. is in Russian and foreign language teaching. I hold a Masters degree in TESOL and taught English as a Second Language both abroad and in the U.S. for over 20 years. I oversee Teaching Assistant (including the International TA Program) and Faculty Development Programs. I run workshops, learning communities, book discussions, and orientations for teaching assistants and faculty at all stages of their careers. My research is centered on undergraduate perceptions of non-native English speaking instructors and how language diversity affects both faculty and students in the teaching and learning enterprise. I recently co-edited a book called Strategies for Teaching Assistant and International Teaching Assistant Development.

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