| Inquiry into College Classroom Contributor(s): Savory (Author), Burnett (Author), Goodburn (Author) |
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ISBN: 1933371250 ISBN-13: 9781933371252 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons OUR PRICE: $39.90 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2007 Annotation: An essential companion for university faculty interested in conducting scholarly inquiry into their classroom teaching, this practical guide presents a formal model for making visible the careful, difficult, and intentional scholarly work entailed in exploring a teaching question. As a how-to guide, this is an invaluable resource for planning and conducting classroom research--formulating questions and hypotheses, defining a data collection methodology, collecting data, measuring the impact, and documenting the results. Inquiry Into the College Classroom is filled with richly illustrative examples that highlight how university faculty from a range of academic disciplines have performed scholarly inquiries into their teaching and leads faculty on a journey that includes: Developing a formal model for structuring the exploration of a classroom inquiry question Providing a practical and useful guide for faculty interested in exploring teaching and learning challenges Detailing faculty experiences in measuring specific changes in student learning or perspectives Demonstrating how to document classroom inquiry in a form to be shared, used, and reviewed by other faculty Sharing useful and practical suggestions for getting started with a classroom inquiry Highlighting different models for disseminating classroom inquiry work Linking classroom inquiry to larger conversations about the scholarship of teaching and learning |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - General - Education | Higher |
| Dewey: 378.12 |
| LCCN: 2006102500 |
| Series: Jb - Anker |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 6.32" W x 8.97" (0.74 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An essential companion for university faculty interested in conducting scholarly inquiry into their classroom teaching, this practical guide presents a formal model for making visible the careful, difficult, and intentional scholarly work entailed in exploring a teaching question. As a how-to guide, this is an invaluable resource for planning and conducting classroom research--formulating questions and hypotheses, defining a data collection methodology, collecting data, measuring the impact, and documenting the results. Inquiry Into the College Classroom is filled with richly illustrative examples that highlight how university faculty from a range of academic disciplines have performed scholarly inquiries into their teaching and leads faculty on a journey that includes:
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