Engaging in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) allows you to systematically explore questions about your teaching practice to enhance student learning, contribute to educational research in your field, and grow your professional profile.
✅ Beginning your project - a checklist:
✅ SoTL theory and methodology - recommended readings:
The Library's subscription to SAGE Research Methods is an invaluable tool in your research efforts. It provides a research planner to walk you through your proposal process, practice data sets for qualitative and quantitative analysis, handbooks and definitions for a wide variety of research methods, and more.
The SoTL Research Table provides an opportunity for participants to share SoTL works-in-progress and receive input and support from colleagues who are engaged in their own SoTL research projects. This response community welcomes new, emerging, and experienced SoTL researchers. The group meets monthly and also hosts guest researchers from across the country who speak on a variety of research-based topics.
Doing Qualitative Research in a Digital World by 
Educational Research: Planning, Conducting, and Evaluating Quantitative and Qualitative Research by 
Qualitative Data Analysis: A Methods Sourcebook by 
The Routledge Handbook of Planning Research Methods by 
Scholarly Publishing and Research Methods Across Disciplines by 
Engaging in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning by
This is a book for anyone who has ever considered engaging in the scholarship of teaching and learning - known familiarly as SoTL - and needs a better understanding of what it is, and how to engage in it. The authors describe how to create a SoTL project, its implications for promotion and tenure, and how it fosters: * Increased satisfaction and fulfillment in teaching * Improved student learning * Increased productivity of scholarly publication * Collaboration with colleagues across disciplines * Contributing to a growing and important body of literature This guide provides prospective SoTL scholars with the necessary background information, foundational theory, tools, resources, and methodology to develop their own SoTL projects, taking the reader through the five stages of the process: Generating a research question; Designing the study; Collecting the data; Analyzing the data; and Presenting and publishing your SoTL project. Each stage is illustrated by examples of actual SoTL studies, and is accompanied by worksheets to help the reader refine ideas and map out his or her next steps. The process and worksheets are the fruit of the successful SoTL workshops the authors have offered at their institution for many years. SoTL differs from scholarly and reflective teaching in that it not only involves questioning one's teaching or a teaching strategy, but also formally gathering and exploring evidence, researching the literature, refining and testing practices, and finally going public. The purpose of SoTL is not just to make an impact on student learning, but through formal, peer-reviewed communication, to contribute to the larger knowledge base on teaching and learning. While the roots of SoTL go back some 30 years, it was Ernest Boyer in his classic Scholarship Reconsideredwho made the case for the parity of the scholarships of integration, of discovery, of application, and of scholarship of teaching as vital to the health of higher education. Glassick, Huber, and Maeroff 's subsequent Scholarship Assessedarticulated the quality standards for SoTL, since when the field has burgeoned with the formation of related associations, a proliferation of conferences, the launching of numerous journals, and increasing recognition and validation by institutions.
Sotl Research Methodologies by
Combining real examples with a roadmap of how to construct studies, analyze results, and share work, this book serves as a primary research methodology text for the field of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL).