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Experts Database

All of the individuals listed below have generously offered to assist colleagues interested in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). All have, at minimum, undertaken a year-long SoTL project through the support of the Office of Professional Development (OPID). Each person is listed by discipline and research topic. Feel free to contact them if you have an interest in a specific research area.


Wisconsin Teaching Fellows
YEAR LAST NAME FIRST NAME DEPARTMENT PROJECT TITLE
2011-12 Coronado Teresa English Investigating Student Learning: How Do Students Understand Narrative Agency in the Captivity Narrative and the Slave Narrative?
2010-11 Viramontes Adrienne Communication A Phenomenology of Teaching Communication:  Assessing Alternative Pedagogies 
2008-09 Oswald Dana M.  English Reflective Writing and Metacognition in Literary Analysis
2006-07 Moats Sandy History Learning American History Through Visual Images
2005-06 Da'Na Seif Sociology Instructor's Characteristics and Students  Evaluations
2003-04 Castor Theresa Communication Making Student Thinking Visible Through Discussion
2001-02 Colston Herb Psychology Metaphor as an Expository Tool in Instruction
2000-01 Akindes Fay  Communication Experiential Learning & Long-Term Learning in Intercultural Communication Class
1999-00 Olsen Jonathan Political Science   
1994-95 Rosenberg Helen Sociology Cooperative Learning and Independent Learning Strategies 
1990-91 Kinchen James  Jr Music Review Literature on Music Learning From a Psychological & Sociological Perspective 
1990-91 Schleiter Mary Kay Sociology Prepare to Teach New Course on Africans in American Society Process
1987-88 Kornetsky Lisa Dramatic Arts Explore Techniques in Teaching Voice for the Actor
1983-85 Gellott Laura History New Course Development: Culture and Society in Interwar Europe
1983-85 Gurtman Michael B. Psychology Develop a course in Psychological Statistics
         
Wisconsin Teaching Scholars    
2011-12 Gurtman Michael B. Psychology NY Times in the Introductory Psychology Classroom
2010-11 Li Zhaohui Geosciences Motivating Undergraduates in Real World Research
2009-10 James Peggy Political Sci/Law ENGAGE! Accessing Student Learning Styles to Improve Academic  Performance
2007-08 Kolb Vera M. Chemistry On the Inductive & Deductive Teaching & Learning as They Apply to the Organic Synthesis With a Special Emphasis on the Learning Categories
2005-06 Allen Lori Chemistry Principles & Procedures in Chemistry Laboratory Exercises: What Do Students Recognize?
2004-05 Shailor Jonathan Communications Student Understandings of Communication and Race
         
Grant-Funded SoTL Research    
2009-10

Cleary
Castor
Robinson

 Patti
Theresa
Jim		 Geosciences
Communication T&L Center 		Formative Evaluation of Reasoned Judgment Goals in the General Education Curriculum
2010-11 Cleary
Castor
Robinson		 Patti
Theresa
Jim		 Geosciences
Communication T&L Center 		From Start to Finish: Assessing Student Learning Gains in General Education Courses