The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: A Guide for Scientists, Engineers, and Mathematicians
Jacqueline Dewar, Curtis Bennett, and Matthew A. Fisher
Abstract
This book is a guide to the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) for scientists, engineers, and mathematicians teaching at the collegiate level in countries around the world. It shows instructors how to draw on their disciplinary knowledge and teaching experience to investigate questions about student learning. It takes them all the way through the inquiry process beginning with framing a research question and selecting a research design, moving on to gathering and analyzing evidence, and finally to making the results public. Numerous examples are provided at each stage, many from publi ... More
This book is a guide to the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) for scientists, engineers, and mathematicians teaching at the collegiate level in countries around the world. It shows instructors how to draw on their disciplinary knowledge and teaching experience to investigate questions about student learning. It takes them all the way through the inquiry process beginning with framing a research question and selecting a research design, moving on to gathering and analyzing evidence, and finally to making the results public. Numerous examples are provided at each stage, many from published studies of teaching and learning in science, engineering, or mathematics. At strategic points, short sets of questions prompt readers to pause and reflect, plan, or act. These questions are derived from the authors’ experience leading many SoTL workshops in the United States and Canada. The taxonomy of SoTL questions—What works? What is? What could be?—that emerged from the SoTL studies undertaken by the Carnegie scholars provides a useful framework at many stages of the inquiry process. The book addresses the issue of evaluating and valuing this work, including implications for junior faculty who wish to engage in SoTL. The authors explain why SoTL should be of interest to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) faculty at all types of institutions, including faculty members active in traditional STEM research. They also give their perspective on the benefits of SoTL to faculty, to their institutions, to the academy, and to students.
Keywords:
scholarship of teaching and learning,
SoTL,
STEM,
STEM education,
student learning,
DBER,
education research,
SoTL taxonomy,
evidence
Bibliographic Information
Print publication date: 2018 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198821212 |
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: June 2018 |
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198821212.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Jacqueline Dewar, author
Professor Emerita of Mathematics, Loyola Marymount University
Curtis Bennett, author
Dean of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, California State University
Matthew A. Fisher, author
Associate Professor of Chemistry, Saint Vincent College
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