Past Scholars

2022

Mehmet Soyer

Examining the impact of employing digital power-ups within an online discussion assignment to establish a platform where students can exercise their agency to express their views in a Social Inequality Class.

Jessica Rivera-Mueller

My SOTL project explores the connection between learning to write and learning to teach writing by studying the impact of my curricular design in Teaching Writing, a teaching methods course for preservice English teachers.

Jason Twede

I am doing a meta-analysis of prior studies on the effectiveness of open-book tests compared to closed-book tests in regards to student retention of knowledge to determine what factors (if any) influence findings that one testing method is more effective than the other.

Stacy Bevan

I am working on writing a design case article for a food blog post assignment in one of my courses and its impact on food literacy. My SOTL work has also recently led to a collaboration with a colleague to research college student preferences of a student generated food blog versus an artificial intelligence generated food blog. 

Alexander Romney

Sarah Gordon

I am exploring using text-to-video animation software to support accessibility and boost student engagement in the second language classroom.

Amanda Deliman

For my teaching excellence project, I am examining how social-emotional learning (SEL) interventions impact collaboration, motivation, and engagement in the undergraduate classroom.

2021

Baron Wesemann

Description: I assessed student’s progress for career preparation in relation to the high-impact learning practice of self-selected, self-directed, self-motivated service-learning projects for their senior capstone experience in the Aviation Program.  This service-learning activity redesign for AV 4660 - Senior Project had a positive impact on the student’s experience.

Rachel Turner

My project is focused on better understanding pre-service elementary teachers’ experiences with social studies within their field practicum.

Eric LaMalfa

J.C. Sheen

Our project focused on implementing small group, literary learning circles in three sections of a graduate level Social Policy Analysis course to (a) improve student engagement with challenging course material, (b) expand student’s capacity to apply critical thinking to analyze, formulate, and advocate for policies that advance human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice for vulnerable populations,  and (c) increase students’ interest in engaging in future policy practice to effect change across practice settings.

Jessica Habashi

Beth Buyserie (with Sam Clem)

Through our SOTL participatory action research project, we developed programmatic approaches to better support graduate instructor wellbeing in our department; our research was published in the journal Communication Design Quarterly.

Chris Babits

I investigated how students navigate a “choose your own grading adventure” in HIST 1700: American History. I have forthcoming articles in The History Teacher and Teaching History: A Journal of Methods about how my course design harnessed elements of gamification to build student agency in an introductory history survey.

Sara Freeman

My SoTL project investigates whether participation in my upper-level, technically challenging Neurophysiology Laboratory course, which intentionally and explicitly integrates the pedagogical concepts of productive struggle and desirable difficulty, improves student self-ratings of their coping self-efficacy, compared to students who completed a different upper-level physiology lab class in our department which does not directly address the benefits of struggling in the process of learning new skills.

Sunshine Brosi

I’m focused on ensuring our introductory course for Natural Resources majors embraces inclusive pedagogy. My goal is to present a variety of professional voices to expand worldviews and to engage our broader demographic of student learners.

2020

Jocelyn Cuthbert

My SOTL project was a curriculum assessment of the ADVS department's biotechnology emphasis, with a focus on aligning perspectives from students, faculty, alumni, and potential employers in industry.

Julia Gossard

Through interviews with students, I am researching how high-impact learning practices like Reacting to the Past impacted honors students’ perceptions of their learning and their later civic engagement (such as voting, political advocacy, etc) outside of class.

Karin deJonge-Kannan

I'm investigating whether students who complete my course ‘Language and Religion’ feel better prepared for interreligious conversations than they did at the beginning of the semester.

Lianne Wappett

My SoTL research seeks to understand the results of detailed rubrics that reduce instructor feedback fatigue while providing clear and specific areas for student improvement.

Shawn Miller

I'm examining the effects of an online homework system on student self-efficacy when interpreting and drawing molecules.

Timothy Chenette

I came in having published about teaching in my discipline, but have found the discussions of methods and learning theories have immensely enriched and strengthened the things I already knew.

Sarah Tulane

I am expanding on past research to gain more information on specific elements in a social science research methods course that assist students with finding more relevance in research.