FAST - Future Academic Scholars in Teaching
Teaching-As-Research Project
Each FAST Fellow plans and conducts a teaching-as-research project in collaboration with a mentor or mentors to investigate how to implement various teaching techniques, and assess their effectiveness, to enhance student learning. Projects FAST Fellows have developed include:
- Writing to Learn Using Journals
- Improving Critical Thinking Skills of Undergraduates Health Science Students with
- Case Studies
- Investigating the Influence of Teaching Pedagogies on Fourth Grade Students' Action
- Competence Towards the Great Lakes
- Evaluating the Systems Thinking Pedagogy Portfolio
- Relevance as a Motivational Factor
- Looking at Calculus Students' Understanding From the Inside-out: The Relationship Between the Chain Rule and Function Composition Publication: Horvath, A. (2008). Looking at calculus students' understanding from the inside- out: The relationship between the chain rule and function composition. In proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, San Diego, CA, Feb 29, 2008.
- Lecture and Lab in a Biology Course for Non-Majors: Should the two go hand in hand?
- Scientific Reasoning Ability of Cantho University Students
- Assessment of a New Evaluation Method for CSS 480: Soil Fertility and Management
- Biochemistry and Dietetics: Looking for Alignment
- Inspiration Strategies in College Engineering Teaching
- Determining the Status of Graduate Teaching Assistant Preparation as a Basis for a New Model of Professional Development
- Students’ Understanding of the Derivative
- Enhancing Students’ Understanding of Propagation in Horticulture
- Opinions About Climate Change Among Non-Science Majors and Influence of Passive and Active Learning Strategies
- Utilizing an Informal Learning Experience to Improve Students Understanding of the Evolutionary Concept of Variation
- Assessment Tools and Role of Autoethnography
- Identifying Successful Technologies for Teaching Electromagnetics to Undergraduates
- Usinig a Case Study in an Engineering Lab Situtation