Volume 7, Number 2 (2013)
Invited Essays
Editor's Comment
Alan Altany
To SoTL or Not to SoTL?
Diana Sturges
Safe Spaces, Difficult Dialogues, and Critical Thinking
Barbara Mae Gayle Dr., Derek Cortez, and Raymond W. Preiss
The Dangers of Student-Centered Learning – A Caution about Blind Spots in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Sioux Mckenna
Essay about SoTL
Does Boyer’s Integrated Scholarships Model Work on the Ground? An Adaption of Boyer’s Model for Scholarly Professional Development
William E. Boyd
Research Articles
Students’ Responses to Application Quests: A Case-based Learning Activity
Tim Brackenbury, Ryan Bronkema, and Liane D. Ortis
Student-faculty Co-inquiry Into Student Reading: Recognising SoTL as Pedagogic Practice
Saranne Weller, Grete Kotryna Domarkaite, Joseph Lam Chung Lam, and Lidya Utari Metta
Identifying the Effects of Specific CHC Factors on College Students’ Reading Comprehension
Gordon E. Taub and Nicholas Benson
Examining Millennial Characterizations as Guidance for Choosing Classroom Strategy Changes
Tracy Russo
Inclusive, Interactive Classroom as Student-Learning Facilitator
Celia Lo and Allison N. Monge
Challenging the Academically Adrift: A New Decision-Making Tool to Help Improve Student Commitment to Academic Preparation
Carolyn D. Davis
Cognitive and Affective Outcomes of Short-Term Service-Learning Experiences: An Exploratory Study
Darrel R. Davis
Brief Measure of Student-Instructor Rapport Predicts Student Success in Online Courses
William J. Lammers and J. Arthur Gillaspy Jr.
How Does High Impact Practice Predict Student Engagement? A Comparison of White and Minority Students
Jeffrey Sweat, Glenda Jones, Suejung Han, and Susan M. Wolfgram
Using Performance Tasks to Improve Quantitative Reasoning in an Introductory Mathematics Course
Gerald Kruse and David Drews
Real Life Applications in Mathematics: What Do Students Prefer?
Kirthi Premadasa and Kavita Bhatia
Using Writing Assignments with Calibrated Peer Review to Increase Engagement and Improve Learning in an Undergraduate Environmental Science Course
Dana Ruggiero and jon harbor
Effects of Instructional Model on Student Attitude in an Introductory Biology Laboratory
Stephen M. Rybczynski and Elisabeth E. Schussler
Preparing Elementary Educators to Teach Reading: An Exploratory Study of Preservice Teachers’ Evolving Sense of Reading Efficacy
Andrea M. Kent, Rebecca M. Giles, and Mary Hibberts
Student Perspectives of Self-Directed Language Learning: Implications for Teaching and Research
Fengning Du
Personal Reflection: Teaching in the Shadow of a Dead God
Paul T. Corrigan