Abstract

The scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) involves the systematic investigation of teaching and learning and the public dissemination of the knowledge generated.  In recent years the SoTL community has embraced the involvement of students as co-investigators. 

This is the first of several posters that describe SoTL projects conducted as part of a pilot partnership program involving five students and two faculty members in the Department of Psychological Science.  In addition to describing the partnership, including students’ appraisal of their experience as members of this “SoTL team”, this poster will describe the work of one project that assessed student learning using a “first and last day assessment” tool that we are developing.  Eighty-two students in Introduction to Psychological Science responded to five questions about psychology on the first and last day of the semester.  Mean responses scores were statistically significantly more accurate at the end of the course.  Responses also tended to be more concise.  The results of this study have prompted a modification of the assessment tool to measure learning more directly related to course objectives and to expand to other courses.