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lessons from a journal club: investigating student learning – post 3: reasons for doing systematic inquiry and final reflections

sep. 1, 2021—by leah marion roberts, senior graduate teaching fellow   welcome to the final post in this series on systematic inquiry in teaching and learning contexts. this spring, cynthia brame and i facilitated a journal club looking at different ways to investigate student learning. in this blog series, i’m sharing some highlights of our collective learning,...

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lessons from a journal club: investigating student learning – post 2: affective/cognitive inquiry and qualitative/quantitative approaches

aug. 25, 2021—by leah marion roberts, senior graduate teaching fellow   assessment of student learning is an essential practice in teaching. as mentioned in the first post in this blog series, asking questions and collecting data about our classes systematically can deepen our knowledge of student experience in our classrooms, and hopefully lead to improved teaching practices. ...

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lessons from a journal club: investigating student learning – post 1: what is vs. what works?

aug. 18, 2021—by leah marion roberts, senior graduate teaching fellow   assessment of student learning is a familiar and essential component of teaching.  as college instructors, we constantly ask ourselves questions like: “are my students learning?” “what do they still not understand?” “do students feel they can approach me with questions or concerns?”or, “that cool new thing...

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spring journal club: investigating student learning

dec. 15, 2020—in this journal club we will explore different approaches that college instructors can use to investigate how and what our students are learning. we will discuss research articles that illustrate how a range of methods can be used to understand our teaching and our students’ learning, considering benefits and limitations of the methods for answering...

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spring journal club: investigating student learning

nov. 9, 2020—in this journal club we will explore different approaches that college instructors can use to investigate how and what our students are learning. we will discuss research articles that illustrate how a range of methods can be used to understand our teaching and our students’ learning, considering benefits and limitations of the methods for answering...

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journal club: understanding good practices for fostering undergraduate research

jan. 7, 2020—many faculty consider undergraduate research to be the pinnacle of an undergraduate career, and departments across vanderbilt provide opportunities for students to pursue a variety of research. as immersion vanderbilt matures, this commitment is only likely to grow. how do we foster productive research experiences for our students? what are good practices for helping students...

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student motivation journal club: starting the year with a framework to understand motivation

sep. 12, 2019—by cynthia j. brame, cft associate director last week, my colleague heather fedesco and i convened the first meeting of a new, cft-sponsored journal club on student motivation. we were excited to see the 15 or so faculty members who were there (and to get emails from others who had to miss it but plan...

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