With this volume, the author demonstrates how a collective goods approach to higher education research can alleviate problems of rising costs, declining resources, and growing concerns about undergraduate learning. In taking this approach, the author presents new tools of analysisborrowed from cognitive science, economics, data analytics, education technology and measurement scienceto investigate higher educations place in society as a public or private good. By showing how these tools can be utilized to re-orient current research, this volume offers scholars and policy makers an argument for the large-scale use of scientific and economic approaches to higher educations most pressing issues.
Part I The Framework
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The Framework: Pasteurs Quadrant in Higher Education
Part II Evidence-Based Applications to Policy Questions
Chapter 3 The Future Higher Education Policy Landscape From the Pasteurs Quadrant Perspective
Chapter 4 The Focus on Critical Thinking Skills for the Classroom, the Instructor, and New Sources of Content
Chapter 5 Recreating the Faculty Role in University Governance
Chapter 6 Leveling the Playing Field From College to Career
Chapter 7 The Role of Generic Skills Assessment in Measuring Academic Quality<lóÊ
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