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Researching teaching

According to Richlin (see Further Reading) the scholarship of teaching goes beyond scholarly teaching. Scholarship involves the preparation of a manuscript that reports on the scholarly investigation and on the results of that investigation.

The scholarship of teaching must evidence the same standards that we expect from discipline research.

  1. The problem or opportunity must be clearly defined.
  2. The problem or opportunity must be put into context through an adequate review of the literature.
  3. The solution/intervention must be clearly explained and justified with reference to the literature.
  4. The criteria for evaluating the intervention must be clearly explicated with reference to a baseline.
  5. The manuscript must meet the accepted review criteria for scholarship e.g. quality of written English, clarity of presentation, significance of results, evidence of wider applicability.

The completed manuscript might be submitted to a peer reviewed conference or to a journal. Some discipline journals will accept educational scholarship. For example, the British Medical Journal and the British Journal of Hospital Medicine accepts educational pieces.

There are also specialist educational journals for particular disciplines. For example, Medical Teacher. Discipline scholars who decide to publish in specialist educational journals may benefit from consulting with educational specialists to get advice on the range of educational journals.

For example, there are educational journals specialising in the scholarship of teaching, assessment theory and practice, and use of educational technologies.

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Helen Sword from the Centre for Learning and Research in Higher Education talks about the scholarship of teaching


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  • Understand the difference between scholarly teaching and the scholarship of teaching?
  • Engage in the scholarship of teaching to a high standard?

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