Welcome! Please click on one of the links above to start the tutorial. You may also navigate through modules by using the site map below. Please note that this tutorial is still under construction. Your comments and suggestions are welcomed. Send them to Bill Cerbin or Bryan Kopp.

DEVELOPING A RESEARCH FOCUS

• Getting Started: Think Small
• Beginning with Questions
  • Questions about student learning and development
  • Questions about a teaching and learning episode
  • Questions about new teaching practice
• Focusing on Understanding
  • What is understanding?
  • Performances of understanding
• Sample Project Ideas

DESIGNING A RESEARCH PLAN

• Ways to Answer Your Research Questions
  • Making Thinking Visible
  • Strategies for Making Students’ Thinking Visible
  • Examples of Strategies
• Sample Method: Using "Think Alouds"

GATHERING & EVALUATING EVIDENCE

• Evaluating the quality of understanding
• Creating rubrics to evaluate understanding
• Making the evaluation method credible
• Additional resources about evaluating understanding

PRESENTING & REVIEWING FINDINGS

• Peer Review
• Campus Venues
• Places to Publish
• Revising your Classroom Inquiry Project