Savory, Burnett, Goodburn

Inquiry into College Classroom

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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: * 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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 346g
• ISBN-13: 9781933371252
• ISBN-10: 1933371250
• Artikelnr.: 22985253

Autorenporträt

Paul Savory is the author of Inquiry into the College Classroom: A Journey Toward Scholarly Teaching, published by Wiley. Amy Nelson Burnett is Professor of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is the author of multiple books.