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Educational Scholarship

  • What is Educational Scholarship?
    This web site briefly describes what scholarship in terms of the three key characteristics of public accessibility, critical review, and scholarly exchange. The web site also provides a summary listing of standards for evaluating scholarly work. This web site was created for Mansfield University.
    For more information: http://www.mnsfld.edu/~effteach/definitions1.html
     
  • Frequently Asked Questions about the Scholarship of Teaching
    This web site describes scholarship of teaching in terms of what it is, what it looks like, research skills required, and other frequently asked questions. This web site was created by the California State Polytechnic University.
    For more information: http://www.csupomona.edu/~cholder/faq.htm
     
  • Preparing for and Presenting at Conferences
    This web site provides tips on writing proposals and developing posters for conference presentations, and presenting seminars and workshops at conferences.
    For more information: Preparing for and Presenting at Conferences
     
  • Research Methods Tutorials
    This web site contains tutorials that teach various research methods, including quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods designs. This web site also provides tutorials on statistical concepts such as power and validity. This web site is maintained by Bill Trochim.
    For more information: http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/tutorial/tutorial.htm
     
  • Center for Social Research Methods
    This web site provides resources for research and evaluation, including: an online knowledge base that covers everything you want to know about defining a research question, sampling, measurement, research design and data analysis; a statistical advisor that helps researchers determine the appropriate statistical test for your data; and computer simulation exercises of common research designs to learn how to do simple simulations. This web site was created by William M. K. Trochim of Cornell University.
    For more information: http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/