Optimizing Teaching and Learning will serve as a practical guide for anyone, anywhere, who is interested in improving their teaching, the learning of their students, and correspondingly, contribute to the scholarship of teaching and learning.
- Bridges the gap between the research and practice of SoTL
- Provides explicit instructions on how to design, conduct, analyze, and write-up SoTL work
- Includes samples of actual questionnaires and other materials (e.g., focus group questions) that will jumpstart investigations into teaching and learning
- Explores the advantages and disadvantages of various pedagogical practices and present applications of SoTL using case studies from a variety of disciplines
Preface viii
Acknowledgments xiii
1 What Is Pedagogical Research? 1
Multidisciplinary Roots of Pedagogical Research 3
Examining Definitions of Scholarship 4
The Other SoTL: Action Research and Teacher Research 6
Beginnings 8
Why Is Pedagogical Research Important? 11
A Teaching Hierarchy 12
A Caveat 16
How Can Pedagogical Research Be Useful to You? 16
2 Pedagogical Research: Focussing on the Teaching 18
Assessing Our Teaching Effectiveness 20
What Can We Learn from the “Best” College Teachers? 25
Creating your Teaching Philosophy Statement 31
How Do I Teach? 33
Using Teaching Inventories 34
Determining Your Teaching Goals 38
Assessment Tools 43
Alternative Classroom Assessment Techniques 65
Teaching Portfolios 68
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