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Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)

Scholarly and practical resources to support scholarly and evidence-based teaching and to promote the scholarship of teaching and learning in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies (GUSS).

Selected scholarly references on good teaching in higher education

This is a select list of resources organised by topic. Peer reviewed journals which publish scholarship of teaching and learning are included in a separate section of this guide.

Databases

Australian Council for Educational Research

VOCED Plus Pod Network (teaching and learning research and resources for vocational education)

Good teaching in higher education

Biggs, J., & Tang, C. (2011). Teaching for Quality Learning at University. What the Student Does (4th Ed.). Berkshire and New York: Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University Press.

Brookfield, S. D. (1995). Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher. San Francisco CA: Jossey-Bass.

Carbone, A., Evans, J., & Ye, J. (2016). Beyond teaching quality: Towards a framework for course unit quality. HERDSA Review of Higher Education, 3, 16.

Devlin, M., & Samarawickrema, G. (2010). The criteria of effective teaching in a changing higher education context. Higher Education Research & Development, 29(2), 111-124. doi:10.1080/07294360903244398

Duarte, F. P. (2013). Conceptions of Good Teaching by Good Teachers: Case Studies from an Australian University. Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, 10(1), 15.  Retrieved from http://ro.uow.edu.au/jutlp/vol10/iss1/5

 

 

Hay, I. (2011). Inspiring academics: learning with the world's best university teachers. Retrieved from https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=369024&site=ehost-live&authtype=sso&custid=s5445732&profile=ehost

Kember, D., & McNaught, C. (2007). Enhancing University Teaching : Lessons from Research into Award-Winning Teachers Retrieved from http://rmit.eblib.com.au/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=292999

Kolb, D. A. (2014). Experiential Learning: Experience as the Source of Learning and Development  (2nd ed.) New Jersey: Pearson Education

Ramsden, P. (2003). Learning to Teach in Higher Education. 2nd ed. London & New York: Routledge.

Shulman, L. S. (2005). Signature Pedagogies in the Professions. Daedalus, 134(3), 52-59.  Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/20027998

Steffe, L., & Gale, J. (Eds.). (1995). Constructivism in Education. Hillsdale, New Jersey and Hove, UK: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc.

 

 

Assessment

Boud, D. (2007). Reframing assessment as if learning were important. In D. Boud & N. Falchikov (Eds.), Rethinking assessment in higher education learning for the longer term (pp. 14-25). London and New York: Routledge.

Boud, D., Dawson, P., Bearman, M., Bennett, S., Joughin, G., & Molloy, E. (2016). Reframing assessment research: through a practice perspectiveStudies in Higher Education. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/03075079.2016.1202913

Boud, D., & Falchikov, N. (2007). Developing assessment for informing judgement. In D. Boud & N. (Eds.), Rethinking assessment in higher education learning for the longer term (pp. 14-25). London and New York: Routledge.

Falchikov, N. (2007). The place of peers in learning and assessment. In D. Boud & N. Falchikov (Eds.), Rethinking assessment in higher education learning for the longer term (pp. 128-143). London and New York: Routledge.

Kvale, S. (2007). Contradictions of assessment for learning in institutions of higher learning. In D. Boud & N. Falchikov (Eds.), Rethinking assessment in higher education learning (pp. 57-71). London and New York: Routledge.

Sambell, K., McDowell, L., & Montgomery, C. (2013). Assessment for Learning in Higher Education. London and New York: Routledge.

Feedback

Boud, D., & Molloy, E. (2013). Rethinking models of feedback for learning: the challenge of design. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 38(6), 698-712. doi:10.1080/02602938.2012.691462

Boud, D., & Soler, R. (2016). Sustainable assessment revisited. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 41(3), 400-413. doi:10.1080/02602938.2015.1018133

Carless, D., Salter, D., Yang, M., & Lam, J. (2011). Developing sustainable feedback practices. Studies in Higher Education, 36(4), 395-407.

Hattie, J., & Timperley, H. (2007). The power of feedback. Review of Educational Research, 77(1), 81-112. doi: 10.3102/003465430298487

Rowe, A., Muchatuta, M., & Wood, L. N. (2010). Inclusive practice in higher education: Feedback that breaks pedagogical barriers. In N. Riseman, S. Rechter, & E. Warne (Eds.), Learning, Teaching and Social Justice in Higher Education (pp. 217-232). Melbourne: University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre with School of Arts and Sciences (Vic), Australian Catholic University.

Inclusive learning and teaching

Center for Applied Special Technology. (2016). Universal Design for Learning (UDL) guidelines Version 2.0: Web version.   Retrieved from http://www.udlcenter.org/aboutudl/udlguidelines/aboutrepresentation

Larkin, H., Nihill, C., & Devlin, M. (2014). Inclusive practices in academia and beyond. In K. Fraser (Ed.), The Future of Learning and Teaching in Next Generation Learning Spaces (Vol. 12, pp. 147-171). Bradford: Emerald Publishing Group.

RMIT Inclusive teaching resources subject guide

Scholarship of teaching and learning

Boyer, E. L. (1990). Scholarship reconsidered : priorities of the professoriate. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Probert, B. (2014). Why Scholarship Matters in Higher Education. Discussion paper 2. Report commissioned by Australian Government Department of Education. Retrieved from Canberra: http://www.olt.gov.au/resource-why-scholarship-matters-higher-education-2014

Shulman, L. (2000). From Minsk to Pinsk: Why a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning?  Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 1(1), 48-53. 

Shulman, L.S. (2004). Teaching as community property: Essays on higher education. San FransiscoJossey-Bass.