Teaching and Learning
Associate Professor Barbara Fritzsche wins a 2005 Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Summer 2005 -- The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) can be defined as research into our teaching methods and effectiveness, with the ultimate goal of evaluating student learning. To perform SoTL, we research something about our own classes. For instance, we might attempt to institute a change in the way we present material or the way we assess student learning, and then track the effect of these changes to decide how best to improve our teaching practices. SoTL also involves disseminating the results we find in a public forum, so that when others hear about our practices, they are prompted into creating their own systemic changes. The outcome of SoTL should always remain focused on improving student learning (scroll to the bottom of the page for definitions of SoTL from universities around the nation).
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