By Michael Wong The inspiration for this project stemmed from the countless conversations we had with instructors about how we might make learning science process skills more engaging for students. To our dismay, we learned that many educators struggled with …
By Daphne E. Pedersen, Alena Kubátová, and Rebecca Simmons Despite the attention to increasing DEI in STEM fields, there has been little change in the number of degrees awarded to members of underrepresented groups (e.g., women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+ individuals). …
By Dr. Juliette Gaunt, Birmingham City University, Juliette.Gaunt@bcu.ac.uk and Professor Mark O’Hara, Aston University This article presents findings from a small-scale qualitative evaluation of student perceptions of a High Achievers’ Recognition Scheme in a faculty within a UK university. This …
By Marisa V. Cervantes & Alana R. Inlow Our work on this paper started with a hallway conversation about the frustrations we were facing as graduate student instructors (GSI) and the lack of support for inclusive, anti-racist teaching practices. We …
By Erin B. Styles, University of Toronto (erin.styles@utoronto.ca) and Elizabeth J. Polvi, University of Calgary (elizabeth.polvi@ucalgary.ca) Recognizing that the last session of class at the end of the term is often not very materially productive, we have searched for a …
By Susan Cox, Kate Jongbloed, and Charlyn Black Have you ever finished teaching a class and wondered what students “took away” in terms of their learning? And whether your pedagogic approach was effective? These questions were the stimulus for our …
By Melissa Hills, MacEwan University, Melissa.Hills@MacEwan.ca and Kim Peacock, NorQuest College, Kim.Peacock@NorQuest.ca We define flexible deadline policies as those that allow all students in a course some degree of freedom over when they submit an assignment, without consequences that could …
By Anna Piotti, Elizabeth DeFelice, and Carrie Jackson The Pennsylvania State University It was the end of a Zoom meeting, at the end of a long day, in the middle of the very challenging Fall 2020 semester when Elizabeth sighed, …
By Ann M. Gansemer-Topf, Sara Marcketti, Paul Hengesteg, and Steven A. Freeman In Spring 2019, I had the opportunity to coordinate the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Scholars program at Iowa State University. The program was a cohort-based program …
By Earle D. Abrahamson Teaching and Learning Inquiry (TLI) has become synonymous with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), as a vehicle to inspire discussion, publish meaningful research, and enable contribution to SoTL debates. In their inaugural edition of …