Alternative Grading Practices
This project focuses on student and instructor experiences with alternative grading, through interviews, surveys, and recorded reflections. Learn more about the various studies here.
Instructor Feedback Practices
This research explores instructor feedback literacy and how feedback instructors provide to students impacts student success and persistence. Learn more about the feedback research here.
Artificial Intelligence in Teaching and Learning
Visit the Artificial Intelligence in Teaching and Learning project site to learn more about the 8 research projects and the SCHEV Innovation grant our team was awarded.
community + collaboration in faculty development
This research is ongoing exploration of how instructors engage in faculty development opportunities. Learn more about the various phases here.
Read my article on how faculty developers find community and collaboration opportunities: Finding community through an academic development collective: Overcoming constraints through strategic collaboration.
Read our chapter on learning communities, Cross-Institutional FLCs That Support Equity-Based Pedagogy and Student Success, in Faculty Learning Communities: Working Towards a More Equitable, Just, and Antiracist Future in Higher Education,
second language learners
Read my article on direct placement of English language learners in the Virginia Community College system: Supporting English Language Learners in the Era of Direct Enrollment.
Read our chapter on directed self-placement in WPA Advocacy in a Pandemic: Lessons Learned.
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.
Coming soon: Applying TILT to Authentic Assessment in a Diverse, Interdisciplinary Graduate Course, in TILTed Pedagogy: A Collection of Evidence-Based Assignments to Inspire Learning
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.