Self-regulated learning (SRL) is a cyclical process of planning, performance, and reflection. Although SRL contributes to academic achievement, teaching SRL poses a challenge for teachers, who need support in theoretical and practical approaches to SRL knowledge and skills. The first stop for teachers to effectively learn and employ SRL practices…

This chapter demonstrates how Decoding work can be used productively within a curriculum change process to help make design decisions based on a more nuanced understanding of student learning and the relationship of a professional program to the field.

The purpose of assembling this "New Directions in Teaching and Learning" volume was to introduce college and university teachers to a broad range of approaches that reflect evidence-based teaching (EBT). As each of the preceding chapters has shown, EBT not only can increase student learning across a variety of measures, it also can increase…

This chapter explores how the framework of intersectionality can be used by faculty in course development and classroom teaching. An overview of intersectionality, highlighting core assumptions and tenets of the framework, is presented first. These assumptions and tenets are then applied to classroom dynamics and the practice of teaching in…

There is mounting evidence from faculty and employers that a broad set of skills and abilities are essential for student success as graduates, citizens, and employees. The traditional approach to general education with an emphasis on exposure to a menu of knowledge no longer suffices. Graduates need to be able to integrate their learning, apply it…

In this article, the author examines some of the shifts that are informing faculty's understanding of what "internationalizing curriculum" might mean for the small undergraduate liberal arts college at which she teaches in London, Ontario. The author starts by describing an initiative that was developed to allow students studying a…

Describes new developments in formative assessment and challenges for the educational community. Asserts that many current assessment practices that serve certification and prediction functions well are not well suited for improving learning. Calls for alternative approaches to assessment, rooted in cognitive theories of knowledge and learning,…

Introduces the value of applying research findings about human learning to the design of instruction. Briefly summarizes the journal's other chapters. (EV)

Outlines some basic components of effective learning processing and then suggests tasks or ways of presenting information during lecture that can induce such processing by students. (EV)

Explores how higher education can focus more clearly on the development of successful intelligence--a kind of knowing that permits creative use of information, analysis of complex topics, and its application in a variety of settings. (EV)

Examines the design of multimedia learning environments as a case example of the intertwined and reciprocal relation between cognition and instruction. Explores the contributions of cognitive theory to multimedia design issues and the contributions of multimedia design issues to cognitive theory. (EV)

We now have pedagogical methods that can be successful--that is, effective--with most students at the undergraduate stage; one very promising method is problem-based or inquiry-based learning. (Contains 4 notes.)

Asserts that the field of discourse processing offers some solutions to the challenge of promoting deep comprehension during learning. Sketches the salient components of discourse processing mechanisms and points out how such mechanisms can be recruited to improve deep comprehension. (EV)

Asserts the need to explore assessment in on-line classes from a cohesive learning-teaching-assessment paradigm. Challenges the notion that good teaching is based on "craft knowledge" and addresses the assessment of student writing. Discusses two major competing learning-teaching-assessment paradigms (traditional and alternative) and their…

Identifies resources for information about small-group learning and learning communities within large classes at the college level. These include institutional and grass roots initiatives, print and Web sites on theory and rationale for small-group learning, general resources on cooperative and small- group learning, general resources on large…