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

Workshop Flier

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
• Workshop #1
• Workshop #2
• Workshop #3

Videos: Password = WSUCVM_ta
• Teaching Academy Faculty Development Seminar - Clarissa Dirks, PhD - Part One
• Teaching Academy Faculty Development Seminar - Clarissa Dirks, PhD - Part Two (includes workshop #2 and 3)

Survey Report from Dr. Clarissa Dirks's Workshop Series - Click Here

Schedule of Events:

Monday (April 8^th):

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 9^th):

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

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 Research

     Bring a Research Project Idea and be prepared to work on them.

• Comparison of discipline research with DBER
• Research Formats for quasi‐experimental studies
• Qualitative, Quantitative or Mixed Approaches
• Thinking creatively about data analysis

Small Group Work: Improving your research design

Location: CUE 518

3:00 - 5:00 pm - Workshop III: Instrument Design

     Bring a Research Project Idea and be prepared to work on them.

• 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: Identifying or designing instruments for your research and strategies for data analysis

Location: CUE 518