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Research & Grants

Looking to present or publish? Maybe have a project funded? ILTE has information on teaching-related grants, publications and scholarship opportunities.

Grants and Fellowships

IU Fellowships

IUS grants and fellowships:

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Scholarship of Teaching Learning Research (SoTL)

What is SoTL:

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is a research-driven approach to studying classroom teaching and student learning and sharing it publicly either as a publication or a presentation. For information and examples of how to "do" SoTL, review the materials from Laurie Richlin's presentation at our 2004 teaching symposium.

SoTL publication opportunities by discipline (Note: This file is in PDF format. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view it.)

Pursuant to federal law and University policy, all research conducted by IUS investigators that involves human subjects must be reviewed and approved by the IUS Institutional Review Board for Protection of Human Subjects in Research (IRB).

Typical SoTL research requires an application to the IRB along with an informed consent form. The table provides examples of when human subjects review is required.

Examples:

Scenario

Need Human Subjects Review?

Data included in an assessment report for your program as part of the internal IUS assessment program.

NO

Reports of student data that stay within the IUS community ( e.g., internal workshop, seminar).

NO

Reports of student data that occur on campus but are open to an external audience ( e.g., workshop or seminar at IUS that will be attended by people from outside of IUS).

YES

Any reports of student data that occur off campus, either at meetings or in publications.

YES

 

Human subjects issues in SoTL research:

  • Dual Roles: Due to the dual roles (instructor/researcher and student/research participant) typical in SoTL research special caution is needed to ensure that the student/research participants do not feel untoward pressure to participate.
  • Third Party: To ensure ethical treatment towards the student/research participant a third party is needed to collect and hold the informed consents until after the course grades have been sent to the registrar's office.
  • ILTE Role: The ILTE office is willing to act as the third party if necessary. The ILTE staff will come to your classroom, deliver the research instructions, collect the informed consent statements, hold the informed consents during the semester and provide the student/research participants with a contact to withdraw from the study if they wish, and once the grades have been filed they will forward the informed consents to you.

Forms requesting human subjects approval are available from the Academic Affairs office and can also be found on the Academic Affairs website.

Contact the Dean of Research with any questions or concerns before you begin to gather data:

Deborah Finkel, Ph.D.
Interim Dean of Research

Office: University Center South (UCS) 152
Phone: 812.941.2210
Fax: 812.941.2170
e-mail: dfinkel@ius.edu

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