Content Provider: Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
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Advanced Mathematics for Secondary Teachers: Course Portfolio
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Abstract: The course the portfolio describes is a capstone course in mathematics primarily aimed at future high school mathematics teachers. Bennett decided to write a course portfolio for this course as a way to pass the course along to other faculty members that will teach it in the future. Thus, the central ... More »
An Alternative Approach to General Chemistry: Addressing the Needs of At-Risk Students with Cooperative Learning Strategies
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Abstract: This site presents a study on the impact of incorporating cooperative learning activities in a large section (>200 'at-risk' students) of General Chemistry. It includes data documenting students' performance in the course and in more advanced science courses, course materials, and videotapes illustrating ... More »
Calculus Conversations: Making Student Thinking Visible
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Abstract: The difficulty that many calculus students face is their inability to apply methods and concepts used in practiced problems to new situations. This is not only a cause for concern in their calculus courses but also in subsequent science and engineering courses where they need to use the fundamental principles ... More »
Capturing Change: A Tail of Two Portfolios
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Abstract: These two portfolios document efforts to capture change in a single general education music course. The first analyses the course's transformation from a catastrophe to a cause for celebration; the second explores the search for deep learning.
Learning From Cases
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Abstract: This site focuses on the use of case writing to support student learning in a Foundations of Learning course for pre-service teachers at the graduate level. It uses a course timeline to organize links that show course materials, the development of one student's case, and student and instructor reflections. ... More »
Learning Interdisciplinarity: A Course Portfolio
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Abstract: Linkon's research focused on evaluating the effectiveness of her incremental learning assignments in an interdisciplinary course. She gathered a variety of kinds of evidence of students' learning, ranging from surveys and interviews to students' projects and her own reflections. The three-assignment ... More »
Learning to Think Mathematically
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Abstract: Concerned that most students leave college thinking of mathematics as a fixed body of knowledge to be memorized, Cooperstein designed a new course to help students learn to think mathematically for themselves. This website serves as a course portfolio that documents the new class, Introduction to Mathematical ... More »
Making a New Song About Science
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Abstract: This website shows how Smith fostered the development of her students' competence and confidence in teaching science through a course for preservice teachers at Michigan State University. Smith's site is laid out in a timeline that allows visitors to access documents from her syllabus, student work samples, ... More »
Making Sense of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Analysis of a Family Nurse Practitioner Program
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Abstract: The overall goal of this inquiry project was to evaluate approaches to incorporating complementary and alternative medicine into the curricula of nurse practitioner (NP) programs. Specifically, Burman undertook a comprehensive assessment of how the concept of complementary and alternative therapies is ... More »
Overview of a Course on Current Approaches to Teaching, Learning, and School Improvement
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Abstract: This website was designed as an archive of course materials and reflections to serve as a foundation for the development of future versions of this and other courses. The course syllabus serves as the organizing structure of the site; it provides access to weekly reflections, class overheads and notes, ... More »
Peer Review of Teaching - Course Portfolio
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Abstract: In this course portfolio, Dan Bernstein reports on changes he has made over three semesters in a psychology course on learning. He has succeeded in getting more students to achieve higher levels of understanding by changing the assessment from short abstract essay questions to problems that asked students ... More »
Revealing Student Understanding in a Problem-Based Educational Psychology Course
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Abstract: This 'class anatomy' includes the full documentation of one of the problems on the application of a technique for teaching reading as well as some video excerpts from the class, and analyses of the development of students' understanding. It represents the first attempt of a Carnegie Scholar and KML staff ... More »
Transforming Public Speaking Through an Emphasis on Civil Public Discourse
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Abstract: A professor investigates her teaching efficacy by tracking her students' development in a public speaking course.
Western Civilization Course Portfolio
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Abstract: This portfolio documents the teaching in a Western Civilization survey course at Texas Tech that took a thematic approach to investigate a number of the most important developments from the 17th Century to the Fall of Communism. The portfolio focuses on the impact of hypermedia on student learning and ... More »
