• Alternative Grading Practices: With colleague Prof. Indigo Eriksen, we have conducted interviews with students and faculty about experiences with alternative grading, and specifically labor-based grading. We have one article in press, expected summer 2024: “Reduced Stress through Agency and Autonomy: Community College Student Perspectives of Labor-Based Grading,” with Teaching English in the Two-Year College.
  • Instructor Feedback Practices: After completing a two-year research seminar with Elon University’s Center for Engaged Learning with Dr. Kiruthika Ragupathi and Dr. Katherine Troyer, we continue to examine how feedback instructors provide students impacts student success and persistence. We have adapted and launched a Faculty Feedback Practices survey, and developed and delivered a half-day workshop on feedback practices.
  • Artificial Intelligence in Teaching and Learning: Visit the project site to learn more about the 8 research projects and the SCHEV Innovation grant our team was awarded.

Past Research Projects

  • TILT-VA: Transparency in Learning & Teaching (TILT) is a teaching methodology that focuses on transparent assignment design. I coordinated the TILT-VA research team activities, an initiative supported by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) and the Virginia Educational Developers Collaborative. Learn more about the project here.
  • VIVA Course redesign grants: I led two Virginia Academic Library Consortium (VIVA) Course Redesign Grants. The goal of the VIVA Course Redesign Grant program is: “to make textbook and course materials free to students by empowering faculty with the resources and time they need to redesign their curricula using open, library, or no-cost resources.” The projects created two texts for non-native English-speaking students. Learn more about the VIVA OER course redesign project here.