Teaching Academy
Teaching Academy
Faculty Development Workshops #6
Dr. Clarissa Dirks
Discipline‐Based Education Research Workshop Schedule
April 8-9, 2013
Clarissa Dirks, PhD
Associate Professor, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
Related Resources:
- Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research (SABER)
- The National Academies Summer Institute on Undergraduate Education
- Board of Science Education: Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and EducationCommissioned papers of Discipline-Based Education Research (DBER)
- Book: Discipline-Based Education Research: Understanding and Improving Learning in Undergraduate Science and Engineering
- Faculty Institutes for Reforming Science Teaching (FIRST IV)
Workshop Material:
- PowerPoint Presentations
- Videos: Password = WSUCVM_ta
Survey Report from Dr. Clarissa Dirks's Workshop Series - Click Here
Schedule of Events:
Monday (April 8th):
12:00 - 1:00 pm - Lunch
1:00 - 5:00 pm - Various Meetings
5:00 pm - Social - Animal Health Library (170 Wegner Hall)
Tuesday (April 9th):
- 9:30 am - 11:30 am - Workshop I: Moving from Teaching to Research about Teaching and Learning
- Improving learning with Scientific Teaching
- Action Research versus Discipline‐Based Education Research (DBER)
- Student evaluations of teaching versus empirical evidence of learning
- Pedagogical transparency for student reflection
- Comparison of discipline research with DBER
- Research Formats for quasi‐experimental studies
- Qualitative, Quantitative or Mixed Approaches
- Thinking creatively about data analysis
- Instrument types
- Validity and reliably
- Classical item analysis and Item Response Theory
- Analysis of instrument and design
- Case studies: Science Process and Reasoning Skills Test (SPARST); Introductory Biology Consortium Multiple T/F Test
Small Group Work: Implementing action research and identifying good DBER questions
Location: CUE 518
11:30 - 12:30 pm - Lunch
12:30 - 2:30 pm - Workshop II: Conducting Discipline‐Based Education ResearchBring a Research Project Idea and be prepared to work on them.
Small Group Work: Improving your research design
Location: CUE 518
Bring a Research Project Idea and be prepared to work on them.
Small Group Work: Identifying or designing instruments for your research and strategies for data analysis
Location: CUE 518