Marcel D’Eon, College of Medicine Krista Trinder, Educational Support &

DevelopmentOctober 24, 2011

Refine your research question(s) Match your question with a research

approach or two Begin to sketch a plan Willingly and enthusiastically participate in

more workshops in this series Meet and work with other dedicated and

scholarly teachers

SOTL is scholarly inquiry into SOTL is scholarly inquiry into student learning which student learning which

advances the practice of advances the practice of teaching by sharing this teaching by sharing this

research publiclyresearch publicly

Not the same as validating current practice Asking hard questions about your practice Asking good questions about learning Useful to have a “critical friend” and or

mentor

What is it? Does it work? How do we know? How well does it work and is it worth the

effort? Does it work better than conventional

approaches? Does it work better than other good

practices? What is it that makes it work?

Description

Statistical significance

Effect size

Experiments

More experiments

Transferability

Kirkpatrick’s taxonomy!

Satisfaction: they like it betterLearning: they picked something up (K, S, A)Performance: they used it at work, in the fieldImpact: it made a difference in quality of the work….

See handout!

Which one OR which elements of each when?

Rich, thick, colourful description Precise description with some

generalization and transferable principles.

Weigh scalesShoe size and educationThe blind men and the elephant

See handout Work independently Exchange thoughts and ideas: consult More individual work Leave at your own discretion

Many thanks!Many thanks!See you again See you again soon!soon!