New Brunswick Faculty Council
Conference on Undergraduate Teaching

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Educause Article on Large Lectures (PDF)

Category 1: Resources for College Teaching/Bibliographies

Lists and Resources
Journals on College Teaching

Category 2: Teaching Strategies

Teaching Tips
Cooperative Or Collaborative Learning
Teaching Large Classes

Category 3: Evaluating, Improving, Rewarding Teaching

Articles on Evaluating and Rewarding Teaching
Evaluating Teaching By Peer Review
Evaluating Teaching by Using Portfolios
Evaluating Teaching by Student Ratings

Articles/Opinions about Ratings
Guidelines for Using Student Ratings
Evaluating your teaching

Category 4: Evaluating Students
Organizations Promoting College Teaching
Subjects

Mathematics Teaching
Science Teaching

Additional Links

Category 1: Resources for College Teaching, Bibliographies

A. Lists and Resources

Lists of resources on general topics related to college teaching can be found at the following websites
http://www.lgu.ac.uk/deliberations/
Gateway to internet resources on college teaching
Website: http://www.providence.edu/cte/resource.htm
Book advertisement: A new paradigm for college teaching
http://www.users.csbsju.edu/~tcreed/nptoc.html
Support for faculty using instructional technologies at Rutgers
http://ctaar.rutgers.edu/faculty/

B. Journals on College Teaching

Issues in Teaching and Learning (an Australian on-line journal about issues in teaching and learning)
http://admin2.acs.uwa.edu.au/csd/IssuesOfTandL.html
Teaching in Higher Education
http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/link.asp?id=104676
Syllabus Magazine, a technology magazine for high schools, colleges, and universities
http://www.syllabus.com/mag.asp
Journal on Excellence in College Teaching. Contains full text articles on the topic of college teaching which originally appeared in the print edition of Journal on Excellence in College Teaching. Table of contents of previous issues are also provided.
http://www.lib.muohio.edu/ject/

Category 2: Teaching Strategies

A. Teaching Tips

Provides a list of references related to active learning in the different disciplines
http://www.active-learning-site.com/bib1.htm
Index of teaching tips from Berkeley
http://teaching.berkeley.edu/compendium/
http://www.math.okstate.edu/archives/bttindex.html

B. Cooperative Or Collaborative Learning

A summary of the "Cooperative learning and college teaching newsletter."
http://id-www.ucsb.edu/ic/Resources/Collab-L/CL_Index.html
A guide to maximizing learning in small groups
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/aa/landt/docs/small-gr.html
A discussion of issues related to collaborative learning
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/discussions/co-learn/
Structuring team roles in small groups
http://www.utc.edu/Units/teaching-resource-center/FacultyDevelopment/CooperativeLearning/
Comments from people about the practice of collaboration and the possibilities and problems associated with it.
http://www.lgu.ac.uk/deliberations/collab.learning/

C. Teaching Large Classes

Some suggestions for teaching large lectures
http://biowww.clemson.edu/biolab/largelec.html
Selected bibliography for teaching large classes
http://www.psu.edu/idp_celt/largeclass/lcbib.html
Problem based learning in the context of large lectures
http://chemeng.mcmaster.ca/pbl/pbl.htm

Category 3: Evaluating, Improving, Rewarding Teaching

A. Articles on Evaluating and Rewarding Teaching

Bibliography related to the evaluation and reward of teaching
http://ianrwww.unl.edu/ianr/aglec/reward/resource/biblio.htm
Evaluating & Rewarding Teaching: A Plan for Implementing Peer Evaluation
Texas A&M University, Department of Agricultural Economics College of Agriculture & Life Sciences
http://ianrwww.unl.edu/ianr/aglec/reward/depart/ta&magecon.agb.htm
Evaluating and rewarding teaching: The Kellog Project
http://www.ianr.unl.edu/ianr/aglec/reward/index.htm

B. Evaluating Teaching By Peer Review

Resources on peer review of teaching.
http://dept.kent.edu/nursing/about/PeerRevi.htm
UW-Madison guide to using peer review of teaching
http://www.wisc.edu/provost/ccae/MOO/

C. Evaluating Teaching by Using Portfolios

Using portfolios
http://ctaar.rutgers.edu/faculty/portfolios.html
http://www.lgu.ac.uk/deliberations/portfolios/
http://ctl.stanford.edu/Handouts/web/teaching_portfolios.html
A guide to teaching portfolios (Western Australia)
http://admin2.acs.uwa.edu.au/csd/portfolio.html

D. Evaluating Teaching by Student Ratings

D1. Articles/Opinions about Ratings

Student Evaluations: The Ratings Game by Ramond Burgin from Inquiry, Volume 1, Number 2, Fall 1997, 10-16
http://www.vccaedu.org/inquiry/inquiry-fall97/i-12.html
Faculty Behavior, Grades, and Student Evaluations Publication:
Journal of Economic Education Volume: Volume 25, No. 1
http://www.indiana.edu/~econed/issues/v25_1/1.htm
What Do They Know Anyway? Richard M. Felder Professor of Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University, TRC Newsletter 6.2 (Spring 1995)
http://www.indiana.edu/~teaching/felder.html

D2. Guidelines for Using Student Ratings

Guidelines for evaluating teaching
http://www.crlt.umich.edu/tstrategies/guidelines.html
http://www.ex.ac.uk/EAD/Academic/TLS/TQA/evaluat.htm
Rutgers Student Instructional Rating System
http://ctaar.rutgers.edu/sirs/

D3. Evaluating your teaching

Category 4: Evaluating Students

http://www.umass.edu/cft/handbook/handbook.htm#EVALUATING%20STUDENT%20PERFORMANCE

Organizations Promoting College Teaching

College Teaching Effectiveness Network
http://www.uiuc.edu/ro/CTEN/index.html
The Collaboration for the Advancement of College Teaching. The Collaboration for the Advancement of College Teaching & Learning is an alliance of public, private and tribal colleges that supports and promotes outstanding college teaching.
http://www.collab.org/

Subjects

Science Teaching

List of periodicals Periodicals Related to Undergraduate Science Education
http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/str/B.html

Additional Links

Rutgers University Faculty of Arts and Sciences
http://fas.rutgers.edu/
Rutgers University Center for Teaching Advancement and Assessment Research, New Brunswick
http://ctaar.rutgers.edu/
Rutgers Teaching Assistant Project
http://taproject.rutgers.edu/
Promoting Academic Integrity
http://ctaar.rutgers.edu/integrity/
If you would like to add some additional resources please e-mail them to tecnb @ ctaar.rutgers.edu.

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