CFD Research & Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Flashcards

Who is credited with originating the concept of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) and distinguishing it from the scholarship of discovery?

Answer: Ernest Boyer

Ernest Boyer's 1990 report Scholarship Reconsidered introduced four interconnected forms of scholarship, including the Scholarship of Teaching, challenging the primacy of research over teaching.

Which characteristic most distinguishes SoTL from good teaching?

Answer: SoTL is made public and open to peer review and critique

According to Hutchings and Shulman, SoTL becomes scholarship only when the work is made public and subjected to critical review by the broader academic community.

A faculty developer supports an instructor who wants to study whether collaborative note-taking improves student exam scores. Which research design is most appropriate for an introductory SoTL study?

Answer: Quasi-experimental pre/post design within a single course section

A quasi-experimental pre/post design is feasible within one course, allows for before-and-after comparison, and is appropriately scaled for an introductory SoTL inquiry.

When faculty conduct SoTL research in their own classrooms, which ethical obligation is most critical to address with an Institutional Review Board (IRB)?

Answer: Managing the inherent power differential between instructor-researcher and student-participant

Because students may feel coerced to participate given their grade dependency on the instructor, IRB review must address how voluntary participation and anonymity will be protected.

Which SoTL framework uses the questions 'What works?', 'What is?', 'What could be?', and 'What is valued?' to help faculty frame their inquiry?

Answer: Hutchings' Taxonomy of SoTL Questions

Pat Hutchings' taxonomy categorizes SoTL questions into four types—what works, what is, visions of the possible, and formulating new conceptual frameworks—to help faculty identify their inquiry focus.

Which outlet is most appropriate for disseminating SoTL findings to a broad audience of higher education faculty developers?

Answer: The Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning or Teaching & Learning Inquiry

Peer-reviewed SoTL journals like the Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (JoSoTL) and Teaching & Learning Inquiry are the primary venues for validated, discipline-spanning SoTL dissemination.