April SoTL Journal Club

The CTSI-SoTL team is excited to offer a noon-hour SoTL Journal Club Series with monthly events throughout Fall-Winter 2021-22. The goal of this series is to provide an opportunity for our community to explore the SoTL literature in a synchronous group setting, both to find practical applications to implement in our teaching, and to inform our own SoTL projects.

Articles in this series are selected by faculty within our SoTL community, and these papers are a starting point to explore and examine one research study. The faculty facilitator provides discussion prompts to guide and engage us in conversations that will resonate across all disciplines and SoTL experience levels. 

Facilitators:
Dr. Maria Assif, Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of English, UTSC
Dr. Naomi Levy-Strumpf, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Human Biology Program, FAS

Article: Deslauriers, L., McCarty, L. S., Miller, K., Callaghan, K., & Kestin, G. (2019). Measuring actual learning versus feeling of learning in response to being actively engaged in the classroom. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(39), 19251-19257. [Library Permalink]

Discussion prompts:

• What are the ethical considerations of withholding a teaching technique (active learning)? How was this navigated (or not) in this study?  
• How was learning measured in this study? What can (and can’t) this tell us? What would you have done differently? 
• In your experience, is there a correlation between actual and perceived learning? 

CTSI Staff:
Cora McCloy, PhD, Faculty Liaison Coordinator, SoTL
Kyle Turner, MSc, Faculty Liaison, Teaching and Learning

Please email cora.mccloy@utoronto.ca with any questions about this event.