Scholarship of Teaching & Learning: the role of data in supporting educational innovations and scholarly teaching
Clayton Lewis, Professor of Computer Science
Steven Pollock, Professor of Physics
We all (presumably) engage in "scholarly teaching", which carries implications of caring and self-reflection. But the phrase "Scholarship of Teaching and Learning" (SOTL) suggests going further - building on an educational research base, collecting data in your classes, tackling "problems" in your classrooms with the same sort of intellectual tools and practices you use in your disciplinary research. It implies learning about how people learn, sharing your discoveries, and opening teaching and learning environments to constructive evaluation, critique, and development. In this working session, we will introduce some broad ideas about SOTL, with some specific ideas and data from the physics education research base. We will then collectively consider the role of data in effecting (and sustaining) local educational change. We will discuss what types of data collection and analysis may effectively bring about and sustain change in your classrooms, what types of data are relatively easy and/or useful to collect, and how results from one discipline might effectively be used by others.
| Title | Date | Time |
| Session I | Thursday, 10/30 | 3:30-5:00 PM |
This event will be held in ATLAS 200.
