Lessons from a Journal Club Blog Series
Assessment of student learning is a familiar and essential component of teaching. As college instructors, we constantly ask ourselves questions like: “Are my students learning?” “What do they still not understand?” “Do students feel they can approach me with questions or concerns?” or, “That cool new thing I tried this semester — did it work?!”
To explore this question, CFT associate director Cynthia Brame and Leah Marion Roberts, senior graduate teaching fellow, developed and facilitated a journal club for faculty, postdocs, and graduate students last spring. For each meeting, the group read pairs of papers to illustrate types of questions instructors could ask in their teaching contexts and then discussed and extrapolated the papers’ findings to their own classrooms. Read Leah’s blog series about the themes that emerged.
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