The Scholarship of
Teaching and Learning
University of
Wisconsin-Stout
2004-2005
The Teaching and
Funded by a grant from the
UW-System Office of Professional and Instructional Development and the UW-Stout
Provost Office, the project has two goals:
Final reports and
participant reflections on the project may be found below.
June 1, 2005
Donna Albrecht, Technology
Course investigated APRL-275-01 Apparel Pattern Grading/Marker Making
Learning Question:
How do learning plans assist
in knowledge building?
Final Report
Reflection
Len Bogner, Communication, Engineering and Technology
Course investigated
Learning Question
To find the effects of
teaching and learning in two Graphic Communications
classrooms using Lesson
Study.
Juliet Fox, Communication, Engineering and Technology
Course investigated: Honors Technology Seminar
Learning Question: Are engagement and learning enhanced by
self-developed curriculum? More detail
Reflection
Jonna Gjevre, English and Philosophy
Course investigated: Advanced Rhetoric
Learning Question
In an Advanced Rhetoric
course, can studying how visual and verbal
rhetoric is used to convey
ethos (in the film "The Fog of War") help
students internalize the
concept of ethos and improve their ability to
represent their
"character" as authors?
Anne Hoel, Business
Course investigated: Strategic Management and Business Policy
Learning Question
What strategies do students use to negotiate an analytical
learning environment in order to increase their quantified student outcomes.?
Anne's Progress Report
Renee Howarton, Business
Course investigated: Social Psychological
Aspects of Clothing
Learning
Questions:
1. What prior
knowledge of body image issues do students enrolled in the Social Psychological
Aspects of Clothing course possess that will influence their receptiveness to
the existing course content?
2. Which teaching methods will students identify as being most effective in expanding their current understanding of body image issues?
3. Which
specific subject matter will most meaningfully impact students and result in
the synthesizing, personalizing, and applying of course content to their own
lives? More Detail
Renee's ProgressReport
Diane Klemme, Education
Course investigated
Learning Question:
What impact, if any, will
on-going reflections have on the quality of the culminating semester
assignment? More Detail.
Michael Martin, English and Philosophy
Course investigated
Learning Questions:
1. Does the writing of comments
on line (in text), in cursive (I now have a tablet and can actually put my
writing on the screen) give the student more of a sense of connection with the
professor than when the comments are typed?
2. Does this connection help
the student feel more engaged and therefore better able to succeed in a
Freshman Writing class?
Final Report
Reflection
Brian Mcalister, Education
Course investigated
Learning Question
To what extent do students'
models of the teaching/learning process evolve
as a result of participating
in a teaching methods course?
Nancy Murray, Business
Course investigated
Learning Questions:
1. What are the studentsı
thoughts and feelings about their frequent interaction and reflection with
peers and faculty while on a co-op experience?
2. What/how are students
learning through using on-line discussion boards during the internship
experience?
3. How is the on-line
discussion boards enhancing the studentıs co-op experience?
Robin Muza, Human Development and Family Studies
Course investigated:
HDFS-124 Human Development: Early
Childhood
Learning Question: What
activities do students find as most effective in engaging their interest and
increasing their understanding and application of developmental theories and concepts. More detail.
Teju Prasad, Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science
Course investigated
Learning Question:
At what points do students hit roadblocks when solving a programming problem?
Loretta Thielman, Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science
Course investigated: Elementary Statistics (STAT 130 016)
Learning Question
Does asking students to
relate statistical methods to data situations in
their own majors improve
their appreciation and understanding of those
methods?
Carolyn
Barnhart, Food and
Nutrition
EDUC-326
Foundations of Education
Analysis of three
teaching methods designed to create critical thinking. The impact of the
methods will be measured by the level of reflection in each student's
philosophy of teaching
barnhartc@uwstout.edu
Joy Becker, Mathematics, Statistics and Computer
Science
MATH 157
Calculus and Analytic Geometry II
What is the
effect of small groups and a technology-enhanced curriculum on students
learning in a calculus course?
Peter
Burkholder, Social
Sciences
HIST 210
Modern World
Do students learn
more effectively when they have to teach their peers?
Kari Dahl, Industrial Management
Organizational
Development
What is the
effect of an affective experience on learning?
Jerry Kapus, Philosophy
Terri Karis, Psychology
What methods most
effectively engage studentsĠ interest, and increase multicultural awareness,
when learning about multicultural perspectives?
Final Report