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Scholarship July 3, 2025

To Improve the Academy, vol.  22

The Wabash Center

Author
Catherine M. Wehlburg, Editor; Sandra Chadwick-Blossey, Associate Editors
Publisher
To Improve the Academy 22 (Professional and Organizational Development Network, New Forums Press, Stillwater, OK 2004)
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction

Section I: Past, Present, and Future of SoTL
ch. 1 The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Past Lessons, Current Challenges, and Future Visions

Section II: Assessment and Faculty Development
ch. 2 Triangulating Faculty Needs for the Assessment of Student Learning
ch. 3 Documenting the Educational Innovation of Faculty: A Win-Win Situation for Faculty and the Faculty Development Center
ch. 4 Evaluating the Return on Investment of Faculty Development
ch. 5 Beyond Bean Counting: Making Faculty Development Needs Assessment More Meaningful

Section III: Curriculum Design and Evaluation
ch. 6 Color-Coded Course Design: Educating and Engaging Faculty to Educate and Engage Students
ch. 7 From SGID and GIFT to BBQ: Streamlining Midterm Student Evaluations to Improve Teaching and Learning
ch. 8 A Versatile Interactive Focus Group Protocol for Qualitative Assessments

Section IV: Faculty Development Tools
ch. 9 A Transformative Model for Designing Professional Development Activities
ch. 10 A Systematic, Hands-On, Reflective, and Effective (SHORE) Approach to Faculty Development for New and Seasoned Faculty
ch. 11 Foucault and the Practice of Educational Development: Power and Surveillance in Individual Consultations
ch. 12 Approaching Faculty-Development Support From the Grassroots: Establishment of an Innovative, Formal, Untenured Faculty Organization
ch. 13 Fostering Diversity in a Faculty Development Organization
ch. 14 Playing Well With Others: Academic Development as a Team Sport

Section V: Student Learning and Faculty Development
ch. 15 Problem-Based Service Learning: Rewards and Challenges With Undergraduates
ch. 16 Effective Peer Evaluation in Learning Teams
ch. 17 An International Perspective on Assessing Group Projects
ch. 18 The Hesburgh Certificate and Portland State University's Faculty Development Approach to Supporting Service Learning and Community-University Partnerships

Section VI: Faculty Development With Part-Time Instructors
ch. 19 Making Adjunct Faculty Part of the Academic Community
ch. 20 Graduate Student Mentors: Meeting the Challenges of the Ongoing Development of Graduate Student Instructors

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