McKeachie's Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers / Marilla Svinicki, Wilbert J. McKeachie

About This Edition

From the Publisher

New Features

• A new chapter on feedback and assessment provides recommendations on how to improve the quality of teacher feedback comments, and discusses ways of ensuring that these comments have maximum impact on learning.


• Testing chapters have been condensed into one streamlined chapter, as have the technology chapters, allowing the book to maintain its handy pocket-sized length while incorporating new information.


• All of the chapters have been updated to include new developments in technologies and instructional strategies that have become more prominent since the last edition.

Additional Features

• Guest-authored chapters offer advice and instruction from renowned educators, including Peter Elbow and Mary Deane Sorcinelli on writing, Jane Halonen on teaching thinking, and Brian P. Coppola on laboratory instruction.


• Technology coverage includes topics such as the use of Microsoft PowerPoint slides, plagiarism, and effective Web research.


• Additional important coverage includes experiential learning, recent policy shifts, diversity and gender issues, and standards and accountability.

Further reference for this edition:

Download a Transition Guide for the 13th Edition of McKeachie's Teaching Tips.