Books by Ronald A. Berk

To many college professors the words student evaluations trigger mental images of the 'shower scene' from ""Psycho"", with those bloodcurdling screams. This book takes off from the premise that student ratings are a necessary, but not sufficient source of evidence for measuring teaching effectiveness.

Humor can be used as a teaching or assessment tool in your classroom and course Web site. Since some students have the attention span of goat cheese, we need to find creative online and offline techniques to hook them, engage their emotions, and focus their minds and eyeballs on learning. This book offers the ideas and techniques for success.

Humor can be used as a teaching tool to facilitate learning. This work describes and illustrates a variety of techniques that can be integrated systematically into instruction and professional presentations.