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

Purpose and Uses of this Kit
Resources
Workshop Activities:

Activity 1
Activity 2
Activity 3
Activity 4
Activity 5

PURPOSE AND USES FOR THIS KIT:

This resource kit provides a set of flexible tools and resources that may be adapted for local use in faculty discussions about the scholarship of teaching and learning. This set of resources addresses the process of formulating researchable scholarship of teaching questions about student learning through a close examination of a single teaching moment. It is based on a three-hour session conducted by Sherry Linkon at the VKP summer institute in July 2001.

It begins with an examination of learning in a particularly key session in a course on the history of Youngstown, Ohio. After looking at the learning goals and activities of this single session, the resource kit asks faculty--through a series of prompts and exercises--to pull back and ask how one might get from questions about teaching to questions about the scholarship of teaching and learning.

You may navigate this resource kit in several ways:

We have listed the various resources--such as writing prompts, videos, etc.--in the Resources list.

You may choose to go through the writing prompts and resources in order, by clicking on the Activities link.

You may choose to go through selected resources and writing prompts, based on specific uses one might imagine for this material (such as which are most easily adapted for a workshop) by clicking on the links in the I'm interested in. . . chart.

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