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Action Research: Two methodology sources to document effective teaching and student learning

Manda J Williamson, PhD Associate Professor of Practice The Department of Psychology, The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Dean’s Instructor for the CAS Teaching Academy Chair-Elect, CAS Teaching Academy Fellow, Vice Chancellor’s Student Success Program mwilliamson3@unl.edu

Fall Teaching & Learning Symposium Nebraska Innovation Campus Conference Center 2:45 – 3:45, October 19, 2018

An An Overview: What is “Ac Action Research”?

Action Research/ “SoTL”

• 1. Learning

is DV

• 2. Informs

classroom practice

• 4. Design

Rigor

• 3. Hypothesis-

Driven

• 5. Peer

Reviewed; Critically Evaluated

• 6. Shared

with Broader Community; Is Public; Is used by Colleagues

Scholarly Teaching

• 1. Informs

classroom practice

• 2. May be

Shared within a restricted community

• 3. Peer

Reviewed

The Process

Scrutinize

Develop The Question

See if it’s Design Collect Data Evaluate, Implement,

Scrutinize: Discover er the the Ques uesti tion

• Theory
• Observation
• Schwab (1973): Someone teaching

something to someone else somewhere

Develop a Question: Common Common Qu Question

• ns

Someone

• “How do I apply this theory of learning?”
• “How good is this assignment?”
• “What do my students think about how I

___________ with them?”

Someone Else

• “What is going on when?”
• “What is?”
• “What works?”
• “What is Possible”
• “Does this thing assist these learners?”

Something

• “How comfortable are my students with me

when________?”

• “What do my students think about how I

___________ with them?”

Somewhere

• “Does this work in this room?”
• “Within this College?”
• “On this campus?”
• “In this part of the country?”

Develop a Question: An Annotated Bi Bibliog

• graphy
• https://researchsotl.wordpress.com/table-of-contents/

Develop a Question: : Specific Examples

• Does collaborative learning improve retention? J
• Does using a test bank improve retention?
• Does highlighting work better than what ever they are doing when

they read text?

• Do concept maps foster deeper encoding (enable students to see

relationships between concepts)?

• Can I restructure a course using recommendations from efficacy

theory to build student confidence and foster greater retention?

See if It’s Been Done

• Do a lit search
• UNL Libraries
• Scholar.Google.Com
• Summarize the important ones
• Add to them

See if It’s Been Done SoTL TL Jo Jour urna nals s tha hat are Disc scipl pline ne-Sp Speci cific

• http://www.fctl.ucf.edu/Researc

hAndScholarship/SoTL/journals/

• (has acceptance rates listed)
• https://belmont.libguides.com/c

.php?g=174362&p=1149193

• https://cetl.kennesaw.edu/teach

ing-journals-directory

Design Your Procedure

• Important guidelines
• Measure Twice to Establish Learning
• NuGrant Approval
• Include Quantitative AND Qualitative Data
• PILOT!!!!

Designs: Using ”Think-Pair-Share (Th-P-SH)”

Designs: Using Th-P-SH as the Intervention

Designs: Using Th-P-SH as the Intervention

Designs: Using Th-P-SH as the Intervention

Designs: Establishing Group Equivalency within a Class

FMI: NSF User-friendly Handbook for Mixed Method Evaluations https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf9 7153 Prior Sections without intervention: control classroom, class time, teacher, materials Obtain class rank and ACT data and demonstrate equivalency

Design Your Procedure: “Assessment” should include two types

• “Assess”
• Example 1: Objective-to show that “it” worked
• Example 2: Subjective (Affective/Motivation) Evaluations
• f Progress to show why students thought “It” worked
• Quantitative and Qualitative Measures

Design: Em Empl ployi ying ng Mi Mixed Me Method

• d D

Designs (q (qualitative and quantitative data)

• https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1997

/nsf97153/start.htm

Do Any Exi Exist? t? Possibl ble e sc scales s to use se when eng engag aged ed in in the the scho holar larship hip of teac eaching hing

• http://teachpsych.org/Resources

/Documents/ebooks/compscales stl.pdf

An And if you don’t wish to purchase a text..

• Vanderbilt University,

“Scholarship of Teaching and Learning”

• https://my.vanderbilt.edu/sotl/
• University of Calgary, “A

Scholarly Approach to Teaching”

• http://sotl.ucalgaryblogs.ca/under

standing-sotl/a-scholarly- approach-to-teaching/

Let’s Try Th This… … Please Open Th This Link to Your Go Google le Do Doc: c:

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yCp3995

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