See below for a list of useful websites and recommended readings in SoTL and related topics.
- The SoTL Guide. This guide was developed by Nancy Chick, the current Director of the Endeavour Center for Faculty Development at Rollins College. The guide consists of two parts: Understanding SoTL and Doing SoTL. It is interspersed with videos of experienced SoTL Researchers talking about their approaches.
- Carnegie SoTL Tutorial. [Note: link downloads a file.] This interactive tutorial is a compilation of materials from workshops and conferences sponsored by the American Association of Higher Education, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education, the Lilly Conferences on College Teaching, and various colleges and universities.
- How to Publish in Scholarly Journals (Klingner et al., 2005). A succinct general primer for preparing manuscripts and choosing journals (not education research-specific).
- A list of predatory publishers and their journals, i.e., publishers whose business model is based upon soliciting publication fees from authors, is available here.
- The Research Methods Knowledge Base is a digital textbook that covers the basics of social scientific research methods.
- Recommended reading:
- The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Reconsidered: Institutional Integration and Impact by Hutchings, et al. (2011)
- Balancing Acts: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Academic Careers by Mary Taylor Huber (2004)
- Common Guidelines for Education Research and Development, report from the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education and the National Science Foundation (2013)
- Discipline-Based Education Research: Understanding and Improving Learning in Undergraduate Science and Engineering edited by Susan Singer et al. (2012). Description: The National Science Foundation funded a synthesis study on the status, contributions, and future direction of discipline-based education research (DBER) in physics, biological sciences, geosciences, astronomy, and chemistry. DBER combines knowledge of teaching and learning with deep knowledge of discipline-specific science content. It describes the discipline-specific difficulties learners face and the specialized intellectual and instructional resources that can facilitate student understanding.
- Reaching Students: What Research Says About Effective Instruction in Undergraduate Science and Engineering by Nancy Kober (2015). Download as a guest (enter email address) for access. Description: The undergraduate years are a turning point in producing scientifically literate citizens and future scientists and engineers. Evidence from research about how students learn science and engineering shows that teaching strategies that motivate and engage students will improve their learning. So how do students best learn science and engineering? Are there ways of thinking that hinder or help their learning process? Which teaching strategies are most effective in developing their knowledge and skills? And how can practitioners apply these strategies to their own courses or suggest new approaches within their departments or institutions? Reaching Students strives to answer these questions.