This month’s resource, An Analysis of the Effect of Student Prepared Notecards on Exam Performance, is found in College Teaching. The article, written by Daniel M. Settlage and Jim R. Wollscheid, examines the effect of student-prepared notecards on student performance. According to its website, the journal “provides an interdisciplinary academic forum on issues in teaching …
Month: February 2019
Faculty Reflections
Our Experience Conducting and Publishing Teaching and Learning Research By Robin Lovgren (Mathematics) and Kara Smith (Economics) Our goal in writing this blog is to encourage other faculty members to think about ways you can conduct SoTL research and reap the rewards! We have been teaching an Interdisciplinary Learning Community (ILC, or “linked”) class with …
Get to Know First-Year Faculty
Christopher Born, PhD Assistant Professor of Japanese and Asian Studies BA, Valparaiso University MA, Washington University PhD, Washington University What is your educational/professional background? My love of learning foreign languages began at age five, when my mother gave me some audiobooks and learning tapes in French. I began studying German from age 8-15. Despite being …
Recently at the Teaching Center…
Guest Presenter: Charles Robinson On January 22 the Teaching Center partnered with the Martin Luther King Jr. Committee to host its first lunch discussion of Spring 2019. Guest presenter, Charles Robinson, spoke on “A Native American Perspective on Inclusion for our Classrooms.” Charles spoke to attendees about gaining a more inclusive understanding of tribal culture …