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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Good Teachers, Scholarly Teachers and Teachers Engaged in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: A Case Study from McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
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Vajoczki, Susan; Savage, Philip; Martin, Lynn; Borin, Paola; Kustra, Erika D. H. – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2011
This paper defines and operationalizes definitions of good teaching, scholarly teaching and the scholarship of teaching and learning in order to measure characteristics of these definitions amongst undergraduate instructors at McMaster University. A total of 2496 instructors, including all part-time instructors, were surveyed in 2007. A total of…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Foreign Countries, Definitions, Teacher Effectiveness
Inquiry Learning: Instructor Perspectives
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Vajoczki, Susan; Watt, Susan; Vine, Michelle M. – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2011
The rise of the research intensive university has led some critics to argue that teaching has been discounted in favour of research, and thus the academy has "failed...their undergraduate populations" (Boyer Commission, 1998, p .5). This paper examines instructor perceptions of inquiry at an institution with a significant history of providing…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Content Analysis, Undergraduate Students, College Freshmen