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 questionProviding a practical and useful guide for faculty interested in exploring teaching and learning challengesDetailing faculty experiences in measuring specific changes in student learning or perspectivesDemonstrating how to document classroom inquiry in a form to be shared, used, and reviewed by other facultySharing useful and practical suggestions forgetting started with a classroom inquiryHighlighting different models for disseminating classroom inquiry workLinking classroom inquiry to larger conversations about the scholarship of teaching and learning