Inquiry into the College Classroom

An essential companion for university faculty interested in conducting scholarly inquiry into their classroom teaching, this practical guide presents a formal model for making visible the careful, difficult, and intentional scholarly work entailed in exploring a teaching question. As a how-to guide, this is an invaluable resource for planning and conducting classroom research-formulating questions and hypotheses, defining a data collection methodology, collecting data, measuring the impact, and documenting the results.

Inquiry Into the College Classroom is filled with richly illustrative examples that highlight how university faculty from a range of academic disciplines have performed scholarly inquiries into their teaching and leads faculty on a journey that includes:



Developing a formal model for structuring the exploration of a classroom inquiry question
Providing a practical and useful guide for faculty interested in exploring teaching and learning challenges
Detailing faculty experiences in measuring specific changes in student learning or perspectives
Demonstrating how to document classroom inquiry in a form to be shared, used, and reviewed by other faculty
Sharing useful and practical suggestions for
getting started with a classroom inquiry
Highlighting different models for disseminating classroom inquiry work
Linking classroom inquiry to larger conversations about the scholarship of teaching and learning