Doing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Measuring Systematic Changes to Teaching and Improvements in Learning

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) should be anintegral part of every academic's life, representing not onlythe pinnacle of effortful teaching, but also standing side by sidewith more conventional disciplinary scholarship. Although practicedby many instructors for years, SoTL has garnered national attentionresulting in a spate of new journals to publish pedagogicalresearch.SoTL helps students, fosters faculty development, and has beenintegrated into higher education. This volume provides readers withchallenges that will motivate them to engage in SoTL and take theirpedagogical research further. We include many key features aimed tohelp both the teacher new to research and SoTL and also researcherswho may have a long list of scholarly publications innon-pedagogical areas and who have not conducted research.This is the 136th volume of this Jossey-Bass higher educationseries. It offers a comprehensive range of ideas and techniques forimproving college teaching based on the experience of seasonedinstructors and the latest findings of educational andpsychological researchers.