Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Discussion Group

Do you sometimes find yourself wondering about how students learn in your class? Have you ever analyzed your students’ assignments/conversations/emails looking for clues about that? Are you interested in finding out whether a change you make in your teaching improves your students’ learning? If so, then join your colleagues for a continuing discussion about all aspects of planning, executing, and disseminating a scholarship of teaching and learning project.

For the spring 2016 semester, we’ll begin at the beginning, so to speak. We will read several chapters of Engaging in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: A Guide to the Process and How to Develop a Project from Start to Finish by Bishop-Clark and Dietz-Uhler, Stylus Publishing, 2012 (copies provided to participants who attend any session). We will trace a few model projects from initial design to completion, discussing how to develop good research questions, design studies, gather meaningful evidence, and report results. Some sessions may also include brief presentations of faculty projects. Lunch will be provided.