VKP Resource Kits: Researchable Questions

Making Sense of the Evidence of Student Learning:
Getting to Researchable Questions in the Scholarship of Teaching

Researchable Questions Kit

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Workshop Activities:

Activity 1
Activity 2
Activity 3
Activity 4
Activity 5

LOCAL WORKSHOP ACTIVITY 4

Researchable Questions in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning:

A. Writing Prompts (individually)

Working alone, write a list of three or four questions about student learning you can devise for one of your own courses. Then, choose one of those questions and try to write it as a researchable question-that is a question with a narrow, measurable focus but broad implications in student learning.

How does your researchable question connect with your learning goals?http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/

B. Student Reflections on their Own Learning

Watch the clips of various students reflecting on the exercise
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Depending on the speed of your Internet connection, please, choose one of the above versions of the video. You must have the Apple Quicktime plug-in to view the video. Please download it at: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/

C. Discussion Prompts (group)

As a group, discuss these points:

How do the student interviews change your view of what happened when the students were working?
What do we know from the interviews we didn't know before?

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