The Scholarship of Teaching of Learning (SoTL) involves faculty (very often with students as partners) undertaking systematic inquiry about student learning – informed by prior scholarship on teaching and learning – and going public with the results. As Pat Hutchings, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching notes, SoTL involves “faculty bringing their habits and skills as scholars to their work as teachers… habits of asking questions, gathering evidence of all different kinds, drawing conclusions or raising new questions, and bringing what they learn through that to… students’ learning.” If you have questioned your own teaching and impact on your learners when attempting something in your classroom that is tried, or new, you are likely have asked SoTL research questions.  

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