Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Discussion Group

Do you sometimes find yourself wondering how students learn in your class? Have you ever analyzed your students' assignments/conversations/emails looking for clues about that?  Are you interested in finding out whether a change you make in your teaching improves your students' learning?  If so, then join your colleagues for a continuing discussion about all aspects of planning, executing, and disseminating a scholarship of teaching and learning project.  For this July meeting, we will be discussing a specific way to gather qualitative measures of student learning - content analysis.  Registrants will receive links to readings to prepare for the discussion.  During the year, sessions will include ideas for asking good questions, gathering meaningful evidence, and reporting results, though the emphasis on each of these topics will cycle through the semester.  Some sessions will also include brief presentations of faculty projects. Participants attending any session will receive a copy of the book, Engaging in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning:  A Guide to the Process and How to Develop a Project from Start to Finish by Bishop-Clark and Dietz-Uhler, Stylus Publishing, 2012.  Lunch will be provided.