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Under the decentralization Institutional management, the evaluation of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) has a close relationship with discipline, so it's important to build the evaluation model for the SoTL of engineering... more
Recent investigations into pedagogical training of novice graduate instructors (Beers, Hill, Thompson, & Tran, 2014) indicate that graduate teaching associates (GTAs) and faculty generally agree on training a subset of important teaching... more
Discusses a case study of a how a history class can be used to assess and promote better public policy in conversation with lawmakers.
Trends in student persistence and retention capture the attention of academic administrators, but it is in each faculty member's classroom where the greatest opportunity for supporting students' success occurs. This guide presents... more
Blended learning is an approach to teaching and learning that is being promoted at many universities involving an integration of learning technologies and face-to-face teaching. This paper outlines a strategy for promoting blended... more
This article situates academic integrity within the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) discourse. The 4M framework frames integrity through a four interrelated organizational lenses: (a) micro (individual); (b) meso... more
This study evaluated a model of student-engaged educational development. Despite widespread commitment to student engagement across many institutional activities, student participation as partners with faculty in teaching and learning... more
The editorial for volume 10 of Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching discusses the need to apply the same rigour to assessing teaching as we do to research and not simply rely on student evaluations of teaching.
Elliott, Imelda « Les QCM ludiques et l’évaluation formative », Journée du Centre d’Innovation Pédagogique, ULCO, Boulogne-sur-Mer, 4 juillet 2016.
Many students have difficulties writing in the field of chemistry. This study intends to show the effectiveness of student peer review in comparison with instructor review to improve the students\u27 writing skills. Three general... more
Description: Excerpt:" Purpose of Our Research: Do student preferred learning styles impact student performance at different learning levels? After controlling for competency variables, do learning styles still matter? Can we use... more
This is a book review of Bartlett, Alison, and Gina Mercer (2001). Postgraduate Research Supervision: Transforming (R)Elations. New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing.
Where is the right place to start in the scholarship of teaching and learning? Is there a right or a wrong way to go about the practice of examining student learning? The Australian Journal of Psychology published Georjeanna... more
This presentation is the outcome of student-initiated research that provided pedagogical insights for aligning course learning outcomes and delivery with university strategic planning. Participants will learn the following: how to foster... more
1 QUT Learning and Teaching Unit, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia 2 Educational Development Unit, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU), Suzhou, P. R. China 3 Department of Computer Science, School of Computing,... more
SoTL research is often instigated and directed by the instructors or facilitators who are responsible for a given course, program, seminar, or workshop. The facilitators, or sometimes an outside person is the researcher, while the... more
The undergraduate research experience (URE) has a significant effect on student learning. Although the diversity of possible topics, demands, and outcomes makes UREs difficult to assess university-wide, many of the attitudes (beliefs,... more
This session will highlight the importance of measuring fundamental processes critical to deep learning in the SoTL based on lessons learned from 1) a large randomized controlled trial supported by the U.S. Department of Education,... more
1 QUT Learning and Teaching Unit, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia 2 Educational Development Unit, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU), Suzhou, P. R. China 3 Department of Computer Science, School of Computing,... more
En la Universidad del Norte, los cursos conocidos como magistrales son aquellos que se imparten a clases numerosas. Este texto que tiene hoy ante si esta compuesto por los proyectos de investigacion de aula de la segunda version de la... more
Comment des étudiants adultes en coopération internationale construisent-ils leur réflexion sur leur futur métier et sur leurs compétences? Les résultats suggèrent que certaines situations d’apprentissage savent déjà faire comprendre et... more
Enquiry into discipline-specific student learning is a central element of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). Discipline-specific teaching and learning approaches have been called 'signature pedagogies' (Shulman, 2005), which... more
What does it mean to engage in a philosophy of struggle and emancipation in our South African context? As part of my MA research I took an internship with Abahlali BaseMjondolo, a shack dwellers' movement whose office is based in central... more
In this session, I will discuss my recent experience using hyphothes.is for group annotations in the second semester of a first-year interdisciplinary general education course by using examples of student work and comparing it to... more
This is one of a series of articles about implementing standards into tertiary history curriculum.
Based on the importance of student attitudes in learning, we propose university standards and student learning outcomes (SLOs) that focus on the attitudes toward research that students develop during undergraduate research opportunities... more