Inquiry into the College Classroom: A Journey Toward Scholarly TeachingISBN: 978-1-933371-25-2
Paperback
208 pages
May 2007, Jossey-Bass
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An 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:
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Developing a formal model for structuring the exploration of a classroom inquiry question
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Providing a practical and useful guide for faculty interested in exploring teaching and learning challenges
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Detailing faculty experiences in measuring specific changes in student learning or perspectives
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Demonstrating how to document classroom inquiry in a form to be shared, used, and reviewed by other faculty
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Sharing useful and practical suggestions for
getting started with a classroom inquiry -
Highlighting different models for disseminating classroom inquiry work
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Linking classroom inquiry to larger conversations about the scholarship of teaching and learning