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29 January

Building Trust Through Feedback: Transforming Higher Education Classrooms

By Breana Bayraktar, Kiruthika Ragupathi and Katherine A. Troyer Our recent research on building trust through feedback in higher education has significant implications for teaching practices across disciplines. We discovered that creating a trusting feedback environment involves a delicate interplay …

29 January

Superficially Plausible Outputs from a Black Box: Problematising GenAI Tools for Analysing Qualitative SoTL Data

By Mirjam Sophia Glessmer and Rachel Forsyth We spent the last months reading, coding, discussing, re-coding, discussing some more, re-coding, discussing even more, and then consensus coding free-text answers of 449 students, completing the analysis, and submitting the manuscript. “Just …

10 December

Reading Deeply, Connecting Broadly: Reflections on Engaging Together with SoTL’s Grand Challenges

By Maria Gallardo-Williams (North Carolina State University, mtgallar@ncsu.edu) and Nancy Chick (Rollins College, nchick@rollins.edu) In the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), we often find ourselves exploring research practices, methodologies, and frameworks to enhance teaching. But sometimes, we’re called to …

25 November

Exam Experiences, Motivational Beliefs, and Belonging in First-Year University Physics Students: Insights from the COVID-19 Pandemic

By Jessie Durk, Amy Smith, Nabihah Rahman, and Rebekah Christie For many students, particularly those studying math or science disciplines, such as physics, high-stakes written exams carry a lot of importance, not just for access and participation but also for …

25 November

Moving from “Good” to “Great” SoTL: The Importance of Describing your Research Epistemological and Ontological Traditions in your SoTL Scholarship

By Melanie Hamilton and Brett McCollum We started this conversation sitting in comfy chairs at the Banff Park Lodge during Mount Royal University’s 2022 Symposium for SoTL. For some reason over a cup of coffee, we were reflecting on how …

30 October

Enhancing Trust and Embracing Vulnerability in the College Classroom: A Reflection on Ungrading and Co-Creation in Teaching and Learning

By Kristina Meinking and Eric Hall We designed the first iteration of our co-taught course “Beauty and the Brain” throughout the 2017–2018 academic year and brought to that framework an attentiveness to alternative assessment, the close ties between teaching and …