SoTL Reflection

A response to the Share Your SoTL Research Plan Activity
created by Valerie McQueen (@Vmcqueen)

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I enjoyed the scholarship module.  I teach in a seminar class with an attached lecture.  The flipped classroom description really made me think.  I will continue with my first SoTL project, but I will also look to implement more of the flipped classroom methodology in my class.  I will structure this using a research approach so that I can learn from it and improve.

I am very curious about how students draw connections between the assignments we’ve given them and the program’s core content.  Are they drawing the connections?  Can they understand why we chose the assignment to meet the learning outcome?   It might be hard for a student to dig deep into an assignment without fully understanding the why, and they may not focus on the most important aspects.

I will focus my research on understanding what, from the student’s perspective, they’ve learned from an assignment rather than on what we expect them to learn.  I’ll be able to use that to support making changes as required.

When students are given a case study, and we take it up in class, rather than only having them do their analysis, I would ask them to complete a survey on their focus on the assignment.  I’d follow that up with a second question once we’ve taken up the work in class, as that is where I would be drawing a lot of the links before their final assignment.  By staging this, I could see whether there was any progression in the responses.

I’ve added an image to my plan that I found on Pixabay, it illustrates the well the cycle in research or the PDCA cycle.

 

Valerie