Memo to Faculty Series
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"Infusing Diversity Into the Curriculum: What are Faculty Members Actually Doing?" - by Susan Sciame-Giesecke, Dianne Roden, and Kathy Parkinson. Originally Published in the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2009.
"Problem Solving: What I have learned from my students" - by James Sandefur, Georgetown University. Originally published in the AMS/MAA Issues in Mathematics Series, Volume 14.
"Classroom Assessment Techniques" - Reprinted with pemission from the National Teaching and Learning Forum.
"The Assessment of 'Understanding'" - by Lloyd Bond. Reprinted under Creative Commons, attributed to Lloyd Bond and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
"Bloom's Revised Taxonomy" - by Emily Cruz, San Diego State University Educational Technology.
"Pedagogies of Uncertainty" - by Lee S. Shulman. Reprinted with permission from Liberal Education, vol. 91, no. 2. Copyright 2005 by the Association of American Colleges and Universities.
"Who Is Responsible for Preparing Science Teachers?" - by Valerie Otero, Noah Finkelstein, Richard McCray, and Steven Pollok. Science Magazine, Volume 313, July 28 2006.
"Contemplative Practice: Views from the Religion Classroom and Artist's Studio" - by Deborah Haynes. Arts in Religious and Theological Studies, Volume 20, Issue 2.
"Evaluating University Teaching" - by Milton Hildebrand, Robert C. Wilson, Evelyn R. Dienst. Center for Research and Development in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley, 1971.
"Conditions Under Which Assessment Supports Students' Learning" - by Graham Gibbs and Claire Simpson. Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, 2004-05.
"Your First Day of Teaching" - by Michael E. Zimmerman. Unpublished Manuscript.
"How to Succeed in College: Learn How to Learn" - by Robert A. Bjork. American Psychological Society, March 2001.
"Innovations in Teaching Undergraduate Biology and Why We Need Them" - by William B. Wood. Reposted, with permission, from the Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology, Volume 25, Copyright 2009 by Annual Reviews. www.annualreviews.org
"From Knowledgeable to Knowledge-able: Learning in New Media Environments" - by Michael Wesch
"Characterizing the gender gap in introductory physics"- by Lauren E. Kost, Steven J. Pollock, and Noah D. Finkelstein
"At M.I.T, Large Lectures Are Going the Way of the Blackboard" - by Sara Rimer. The New York Times. January 12, 2009.
"Why Peer Discussion Improves Student Performance on In-Class Concept Questions" - by M. K. Smith, W. B. Wood, W. K. Adams, C. Wieman, J. K. Knight, N. Guild, T. T. Su. Science 2. January 2009. Vol 323. No. 5910, pp. 122-124
"A Way to Enhance Teaching" - by Cynthia J. Finelli. ASEE Prism.
"The Role of Assessment in a Learning Culture" - by Lorrie A. Shepard. Educational Researcher, Vol. 29. No. 7. pp. 4-14.
"Toward the Integration of Meditation into Higher Education: A Review of Research" - by Shuana L. Shapiro, Kirk Warren Brown, and John A. Astin
"Discipline-Based Education Research" - by Robert Kel. Academic Leader. July 2008. Vol 24. No. 7. (Posted with permission from Magna Publications)
"How to Succeed in College: Learn How to Learn" - by Robert Bjork. Observer American Psychological Society. March 2001. Vol 14, No. 3
"Lessons Learned: Faculty developer and engineer working as faculty development colleagues." - by Lynn McAlpine and Ralph Harris. International Journal for Academic Development. May 99, Vol 4 Issue 1.
"Building a metacognitive model of reflection" - by L. McAlpine, C. Weston, J. Beauchamp, C. Wiseman & C. Beauchamp. Higher Education. 37: 105-131, 1999.
"Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge: Linkages to Ways of
Thinking and Practising within the Disciplines" - by Jan Meyer and Ray
Land from the ETL project.
"Design Experiments: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges in Creating Complex Interventions in Classroom Settings." - by Ann L. Brown
"Faculty explore tech connections with students" - by Kim Glasscock. Silver & Gold.
"Making Explicit the Development Toward the Scholarship of Teaching" - by Cynthia B. Weston and Lynn McAlpine. New Directions for Teaching and Learning. No. 86 Summer 2001. (Copyright 2001 Jossey-Bass. Reprinted with permission of John Wiley & Sons Inc.)(Posted: 6/23/2008 Remove: 6/20/2011)
“Concepts of Cognitive Conceptions of Learning” – by Thomas J. Shuell. Review of Educational Research. Winter 1986. Vol. 56, No. 4.
"The Theory Underlying Concept Maps and How to Construct and Use Them" - by Joseph D. Novak & Alberto J. Canas. Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition.
"A New Paradigm for Undergraduate Education" - Robert B. Barr and John Tagg
(The Canadian Journal of Higher Education, Vol 29, Num 2-3. 1 June 1999. Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education)
"Contemplative Practice and the Education of the Whole Person" - by Debrah J. Haynes.
"Use of Question and Comment Papers in College Teaching" - by Ozlem Ilk. (Assessment Update. Nov.-Dec. 2007. This material is used by permission of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Posted: 3/18/08 Remove: 3/18/11)
"Student Culture vs Group Work in Computer Science" Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. - by William Waite, Michele Jackson, Amer Diwan, and Paul Leonardi (Copyright 2004, Association for Computing Machinery. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the authors and the Association for Computing Machinery.)
"The Conversational Classroom" - by William Waite, Michele Jackson, and Amer Diwan
"Oersted Medal Lecture 2001: 'Physics Education Research - The Key to Student
Learning" by Lillian McDermott (Copyright 2001, American Association of Physics Teachers. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Association of Physics Teachers.)
"Radical Equations: Math Literacy and Civil Rights" - by Robert P. Moses and Charles E. Cobb Jr.
"David A. Kolb on Experiential Learning" - by Mark K. Smith
"A New Twist on Training Teachers" - by Jeffrey Mervis
"Colorado Also Seeks Impact on Campus" - by Jeffrey Mervis
"New Learning Environments for the 21st Century" - by John Seely Brown
"Articles, resources, and webpages on "Outcomes and Assessment" - From the Teagle Foundation
"Teagle Working Groups on 'Big Questions'" - Teagle Foundation
"Components of Positive Student-Faculty Relationships" - by Arthur W. Chickering and Linda Reisser
"Learning Styles" - by Don Clark
"Why Not Try a Scientific Approach to Science Education?" by Carl Wieman
"Exploring the Edge" - by John Seely Brown
