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Teaching Research
I have been conducting classroom research since the early 1990s—most of it
treated as action research: the results, rather than published, were used
to revise my approaches to teaching.
Some results
have been presented at conferences:
«“Focusing the Classroom Research Question”
invited session in the “Examples of SoT&L in the Disciplines” at the UW-System
OPID Spring 2004 Conference: Making
Teaching and Learning Visible: Integrating Scholarly Inquiry into Campus and
System Culture, April 14, 2004.
«“How Many Peer Reviewers Does
It Take to Revise a Thesis?—Classroom Research without a Lab Coat,” UW-L
English Department Colloquium, with Bryan Kopp and Susan Crutchfield, April 2,
2004.
«Faculty workshops on Writing
Across the Curriculum at UW-Whitewater, October 16 & 17, 2003 and January 15,
2004.
«Numerous presentations and
workshops to faculty and departments at UW-L on using writing to teach, (3
to 8 every semester, since 1980).
«“Teaching Writing as
Inquiry: Clear Thinking Requires Clear Prose,” part of a panel presentation
with members of UW-L English Department at the UW-La Crosse 4th
Annual Teaching Conference. January 21, 2003.
«“Taking (Some of ) the
Pain out of Evaluation of Student Writing” workshop with Bryan Kopp at the UW-La
Crosse 4th Annual Teaching Conference. January 21, 2003.
«Presentation to Wisconsin
Teaching Scholars for 2002 – 2003, “Concept Mapping and the Scholarship of
Teaching and Learning.” Madison, June 25, 2002.
«Co-presenter (with Bill
Cerbin), Writing-in-the-Major Seminar for UW-L Writing-in-the-Major faculty
participants. UW-L, May 22, 2002.
«Presentation to
UW-Platteville administrators and faculty on UW-L’s Writing Emphasis and
Writing-in-the-Major programs. April 15, 2002.
«Poster sessions (with
Bryan Kopp and Bill Cerbin) "The UW-La Crosse Writing in the Major Project" at
the AAHE National Conference on Higher Education, "Learning in Context," March
17, 2002 in Chicago.
«“Writing in the Major at the
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse” with Bryan Kopp at 6th National
Writing across the Curriculum Conference, Rice University, March 8, 2002.
«“Concept Mapping as a Tool
of Teaching & Learning” with Bryan Kopp at the 3rd Annual UW-L
Conference on Teaching and Learning, January 22, 2002.
Since 2003, I
have been involved the with UW-L Lesson Study project, doing research on
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small group peer review, in 2003
– 2004, with Bryan Kopp and Susan Crutchfield,
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close reading for prose techniques, in 2004 – 2005, with Bryan Kopp, Virginia
Crank, Susan Crutchfield, and Mary Helen McMurran,
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assumptions about writing UW-L freshman make because of their previous
instruction in the “5-paragraph theme,” with Bryan Kopp, Susan Crutchfield, and
Virginia Crank,
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reading for complexity—a
UW-System SoT&L/Lesson Study project with Bryan Kopp, Holly Hassel
(UW-Marathon County), Nancy Chick (UW-Rice Lake), and Aeron Hayne (UW-Green
Bay).
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