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STEM Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Welcome to the website of our STEM (Science-Technology-Engineering- Mathematics) initiative on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). This site provides an overview of the Georgia State University STEM investigations into student learning.
This initiative is defined by our STEM Faculty Learning Communities, as well as our research into student learning. We see research universities as characterized
by multiple communities of peers. In particular, faculty research is traditionally evaluated by peer review as the process for contributing to the knowledge-base of our disciplines. For our STEM SoTL work, communities of peers are the core of the process in examining and investigating student learning in STEM courses. Specifically:
- Faculty in Arts and Sciences STEM departments work with colleagues from education and the social sciences who are knowledgeable about educational/social science research;
- STEM SoTL faculty teams address issues defined by peers in their disciplines that are related to teaching and learning (e.g., student misconceptions, how best to structure content, how best to deliver instruction, etc.);
- Faculty teams implement and validate instructional practices that peers have noted in the professional literature.
- Through the scholarly efforts of faculty teams we seek to change our disciplinary communities to use the science on learning to inform the teaching of science, technology, and mathematics.
