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Martha Maxwell, Ph.D.
Founder, Annual Institutes
for Learning Assistance
Professionals
Winter
Institute:
Presenter & Mentor
ACDEA
Fellow - NTA 2000
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Martha founded learning centers at
American University five decades ago, at the University of
Maryland, 30 years ago, and the University of California-Berkeley
in 1973. The Annual Institute for Learning Assistance Professionals
(now the Winter Institute) began under her direction in 1977
and the first six institutes
were held summers at UC Berkeley.
She is the author of four books: Skimming and ScanningÊ
Improvement(1968), Improving Student Learning Skills
(1978), and Evaluating Academic Skills Program: A Source
Book (1991, 1996) and Improving Student Learning
Sklls: Programs and Practices for Working with the Underprepared
College Student.A new, revisd edition of Improving
Student Learning Skills was published in 1997. She also
edited When Tutor Meets Student (1991, 1994), and
From Access to Success: Readings in Learning Assistance
and Developmental Education (1994).
Since retiring from Berkeley in 1980, Martha has been writing,
consulting, mentoring and revising the CAS standards for
learning assistance programs. She is currently writing a
book for faculty in othr disciplines that will explain what
we do with our students in learning assistance.
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