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CTL: Discipline-specific Teaching Resources


Discipline-specific Teaching Resources: This section includes teaching, learning, and assessment resources organized by specific disciplines.

 

= video resource

 

Economics and Business

Problem-based learning in business education - a description of how problem-based learning is used in an MBA program

 

Humanities

General

Active learning strategies in the humanities - a few suggested activities

History

U.S. History formative assessments and rubrics - "Beyond the Bubble unlocks the vast digital archive of the Library of Congress to create a new generation of history assessments. Developed by the Stanford History Education Group (http://sheg.stanford.edu), Beyond the Bubble is the cornerstone of SHEG’s membership in the Library of Congress’s Teaching with Primary Sources Educational Consortium. We 'go beyond the bubble' by offering easy-to-use assessments that capture students’ knowledge in action – rather than their recall of discrete facts."

 

Science

General

Science Education Resource Center - This SERC site provides a wealth of high-quality resources on teaching method modules, learning activities, and a research on learning bibliography

.Case method teaching in science - a variety of articles and other resources including a collection of over 350 cases

"Using case studies to teach science""Cooperative learning in technical courses: Procedures, Pitfalls, and Payoffs"Cooperative learning in the sciences - This site has lots of stories/examples of cooperative learning used in a variety of science courses, some with actual course handouts/assignments; good descriptions of how to do cooperative learning with specific techniques; and more.

Correlation or Causation? - This page provides lots of examples of news headlines that confuse correlation and causation when reporting scientific research. Related class assignments are also included for use with this page.

Chemistry

ConcepTest items for chemistry - multiple-choice questions designed to be used as formative assessments in chemistry to check for student understanding during class and to encourage meaningful learning of concepts

Geology

Teaching geoscience with visualization - using images, animations, and models effectively - from On The Cutting Edge

Mathematics

Assessment resources for the teaching of statistics - from the University of Minnesota

Physics

ConcepTest items for physics - multiple-choice questions designed to be used as formative assessments in physics to check for student understanding during class and to encourage meaningful learning of concepts

Confessions of a converted lecture - Eric Mazur describes how he moved from lecturing about physics to using a more interactive approach in this 1-hour, 20-minute video. A brief introductory video can be seen here.

Psychology

Resources for the Teaching of Social Psychology - more than 5000 links to Class Assignments, Activities and Exercises, Online Lectures, Topic Resources, Student Resources, Videos, and more for instructors of social psychology and related courses

Science of Relationships - This site is meant to keep us up to date on research in the field, answer questions submitted to the site, and provide observations on relationships in pop culture and on references in the media. They will even have a "Fact Checker" section that will verify and debunk claims. As they say, it will be their version of Mythbusters, "but without stuff exploding."

Teaching Research and Statistics in Psychology - "TeachPsychScience.org provides links to online demonstrations, descriptions of class demonstrations, suggestions for class/lab activities, class assignments, lecture materials, and/or student exercises."

Assessment resources for the teaching of statistics - from the University of Minnesota

Teaching Educational Psychology - another comprehensive site with lots of links to teaching resources

Personality Pedagogy - another comprehensive site with 1000's of links to related resources for instructors of personality

Introductory Psychology Resources - another comprehensive site with lots of links to teaching resources

 

Sociology