Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
I am currently applying for Excellent Teaching Practitioner. An overview of my teaching experience, activities, and reflections is available here:
I was selected as a member of the Lund University Teaching Academy by the Faculty of Social Sciences in March 2017.
I have been active in pedagogical training at Lund University, where I have participated in the Docent course at LTH, focusing on best practices in graduate student supervision and mentoring. As a part of this course, I designed and led a team research project using a survey (N=123) to evaluate how well PhD students at Lund and Malmö Universities met the national learning objectives of Swedish PhD education.
One outcome is an increased use of rubrics for assessing writing, which I find (and research also shows) both increases student learning and improves writing, and makes assessment faster and easier. These include:
I'm also obsessed with constructive alignment-- the "process of ensuring that course learning goals, activities and assessment tasks are coordinated to produce the intended outcome for student learning" (Biggs and Tang, 2011). Here's how I carry out constructive alignment:
I'd be very happy if these materials are of use to others- and feedback is welcome!
I was selected as a member of the Lund University Teaching Academy by the Faculty of Social Sciences in March 2017.
I have been active in pedagogical training at Lund University, where I have participated in the Docent course at LTH, focusing on best practices in graduate student supervision and mentoring. As a part of this course, I designed and led a team research project using a survey (N=123) to evaluate how well PhD students at Lund and Malmö Universities met the national learning objectives of Swedish PhD education.
- Nicholas et al., Student preparedness in PhD education.
One outcome is an increased use of rubrics for assessing writing, which I find (and research also shows) both increases student learning and improves writing, and makes assessment faster and easier. These include:
- a short rubric for a general academic essay
- a rubric for writing natural science papers analyzing original data
- a detailed rubric for writing a natural science paper.
I'm also obsessed with constructive alignment-- the "process of ensuring that course learning goals, activities and assessment tasks are coordinated to produce the intended outcome for student learning" (Biggs and Tang, 2011). Here's how I carry out constructive alignment:
I'd be very happy if these materials are of use to others- and feedback is welcome!
