The 212 suggestions presented in this compendium were, with few exceptions, contributed by members of the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley. Most of the suggestions were gathered from recipients of the Distinguished Teaching Award given annually by the Academic Senate Committee on Teaching. The process used in collecting the suggestions was as follows:

(1)  With the permission of the faculty members, students in their 
     classes were asked to complete an end-of-course teaching     
     evaluation form (similar to that shown in Appendix A);

(2)  These data and student open-ended comments were analyzed and 
     five or six of the items which students said were most       
     descriptive of a teacher were selected as the basis for an   
     interview;

(3)  Faculty members were asked to describe the specific, concrete 
     things that they did which may have led their students to say 
     that these items were very descriptive of their teaching;

(4)  These suggestions then formed the basis for consulting with  
     individual faculty members about ways of improving their     
     teaching in a special three-year project;

(5)  From a pool of over 450 suggestions, those with widest       
     applicability were selected and edited for inclusion in this 
     compendium designed to be a reference tool that could be used 
     by a consultant or by a faculty member directly.

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