In the light of viewpoints that pedagogy has been an obvious missing category in considerations of scholarly supervisory work, the author argues that the existing theory on the (more established) scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) may be successfully adapted to make it highly applicable to supervisory scholarship. Research supervision…

Provides guidelines for using classroom observation and feedback to improve teaching skills. (CM)

Within the classroom, the teacher is an improtant social variable who controls other environmental variables. Some research on teacher effectiveness has considered personal or interaction variables. In order to study the variable of teacher test organization, a pilot study was conducted in two elementary schools in Eugene, Oregon. Each teacher was…

Empirical studies show that the article college faculty write won't improve their classroom performance. Of nine empirical studies on the relationship between research productivity and teaching effectiveness, all concluded that there is little or no positive correlation. (MLW)

The relationship between research productivity and teaching effectiveness was studied in 1979 and 1980 by considering faculty members at different career stages and in different academic fields. Two samples of faculty members were evaluated: 2,973 from 61 four-year institutions and 1,623 at 10 four-year colleges and universities that emphasized…

The Oregon System in Mathematics Education (OSME) was a five-year "systems experiment" to improve mathematics education on a statewide basis. The major purposes of this present study were to determine the effectiveness and impact of OSME and a "systems" approach and to address questions of future replicability. The evaluation focused on three…