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PURPOSES AND USES FOR THE RESOURCE
KITS:
The VKP Resource Kits provide a set of tools and resources that may be
adapted for local use in faculty discussions about the scholarship of
teaching and learning (SOTL). The resource kits will focus on various
issues in the design and implementation of SOTL projects and discussions
on local campuses: from formulating researchable questions to sets of
model release forms.
Institutional Review Boards and the Work of the
Visible Knowledge Project
This kit offers narratives of VKP participants' experiences with their
local IRB, model forms, and links to IRB websites from participant campuses
and relevant forms.
Workplace Issues Survey
Sponsored by the VKP Workplace Issues Affinity Group, the survey seeks
to understand how new media and technologies have altered the academic
workplace and how particular workplaces shape our relationship to new
media and technologies.
Making Sense of the Evidence of Student
Learning: getting to researchable questions in the scholarship of teaching
and learning
Adapted from a session conducted at the 2001 Summer Institute by Sherry
Linkon of Youngstown State University, this kit focuses on the design
of a researchable SOTL question based on a key teaching moment in an American
Studies Course.
Facilitating Peer Groups for SOTL Project Design
This kit will focus on the VKP Summer Institute Working Groups Process
(modeled on the Carnegie Foundation process). This is a process of peer
critique and brainstorming in the early stages of the design of a Scholarship
of Teaching and Learning Project.
Deepening
Our Understanding of Student Learning
This mini-kit illustrates an example of a VKP participant poster before
and after that participant engaged in a triad conversation. This kit also
presents reflections on the process to help illustrate the ways in which
faculty have begun thinking about the evidence of student learning using
the finer grains of analysis.
Coding
Data Resource Kit
This kit teaches you a basic method for making sense of and organizing
your research data in a clear and systematic way. Coding is a systematic
way of understanding and keeping track of research data. It allows the
researcher to focus and to track certain kinds of information, leaving
what is not relevant to the current research question to be dealt with
later.
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