Nancy Chick Article of the Year Award
Teaching & Learning Inquiry, the journal of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning., values quality and variety in its vision of the scholarship of teaching and learning. The journal showcases the breadth of the interdisciplinary field of SoTL in its explicit methodological pluralism, its call for traditional and new genres, and its international authorship across career stages.
The Nancy Chick Article of the Year Award recognizes the outstanding article published each year. The award was named in honor of TLI’s founding co-editor Nancy Chick.*
The Nancy Chick Article of the Year Award is presented annually at the ISSOTL conference and is selected from articles published in the previous year. Nominations are made by members of TLI‘s Editorial Team and Editorial Board. Awardees receive a certificate and are featured on the TLI website, the ISSOTL blog, and in TLI.
To learn more about the Nancy Chick Article of the Year Award, including the selection criteria and process, visit the “Awards” page on TLI‘s website.
2022 Award
Joe Bandy, M. Brielle Harbin, and Amie Thurber, “Teaching Race and Racial Justice: Developing Students’ Cognitive and Affective Understanding”
- Read their article here.

2023 Award
Michael Wong, Ahmed Al-Arnawoot, and Katrina Hass, “Student Perceptions of a Visual Novel for Fostering Science Process Skills”
- Read their article here.
* Nancy Chick is Director of the Endeavor Foundation Center for Faculty Development at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida (US). From 2019-22, she served on the ISSOTL Presidential team and (with Chng Huang Hoon) as ISSOTL Co-President during 2020-21—at the height of the pandemic. She has authored and co-authored numerous articles and book chapters on the results of SoTL projects and on the field of SoTL, and is the editor of SoTL in Action and co-editor of Becoming a SoTL Scholar, Going Public Reconsidered, Exploring Signature Pedagogies, and Exploring More Signature Pedagogies. With Gary Poole, she was the founding co-editor of Teaching & Learning Inquiry (2011-2020).