Description
Book SynopsisAn essential companion for university faculty interested in conducting scholarly inquiry into their classroom teaching, this practical guide presents a formal model for making visible the careful, difficult, and intentional scholarly work entailed in exploring a teaching question. As a how-to guide, this is an invaluable resource for planning and conducting classroom research—formulating questions and hypotheses, defining a data collection methodology, collecting data, measuring the impact, and documenting the results.
Inquiry Into the College Classroom is filled with richly illustrative examples that highlight how university faculty from a range of academic disciplines have performed scholarly inquiries into their teaching and leads faculty on a journey that includes:
- Developing a formal model for structuring the exploration of a classroom inquiry question
- Providing a practical and useful guide for faculty interested in exploring teaching and learning challenges
- Detailing faculty experiences in measuring specific changes in student learning or perspectives
- Demonstrating how to document classroom inquiry in a form to be shared, used, and reviewed by other faculty
- Sharing useful and practical suggestions for
getting started with a classroom inquiry
- Highlighting different models for disseminating classroom inquiry work
- Linking classroom inquiry to larger conversations about the scholarship of teaching and learning
Table of ContentsList of Exhibits vii
About the Authors x
Acknowledgments xii
A Guide for Scholarly Inquiry into Teaching 1
The Basic Structure of Classroom Inquiry 31
Incorporating Additional Forms of Data Collection 44
Using Classroom Inquiry to Answer Multiple Questions 59
Overcoming Challenges With Data Collection 78
Linking Classroom Inquiry With Disciplinary Research 93
Obtaining Useful Inquiry Results, but More Data Is Needed 107
Using Classroom Inquiry to Evaluate New Assessment Measures 122
Classroom Inquiry for Measuring Feedback on Student Learning and Aptitudes 138
Classroom Inquiry and Scholarly Teaching 156
Beginning Your Scholarly Journey 174
Lessons Concerning Classroom Inquiry
Practical Advice forConducting Your Inquiry
From Scholarly Teaching to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Models for Disseminating Your Inquiry Work
Resources for Learning More
An Invitation to Set Out on Your Scholarly Journey
Bibliography 189
Index 191
