From Engineering Expert to Engineering Education Expert

Angelo, TA (1993) A teacher’s dozen: Fourteen general, research-based principles for improving higher learning in our classrooms, AAHE Bulletin, April 1993, 3-13.

Chickering, AW and Gamson, ZF (1987) Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education. AAHE Bulletin, March 1987. Also available at:  http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/7princip.htm

Falkowski, SA (2005) Bringing members of industry into the teaching profession. ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, 1299.

UNSW Teaching and Learning Guidelines

Scholarship in Learning and Teaching

Streveler, RA and Smith, KA (2005) Conducting rigorous research in engineering education, Journal of Engineering Education, April 2006, 103-105.

Turns, J., Atman, CJ, Adams, RS and Barker, T (2005) Research on engineering student knowing: Trends and opportunities.  Journal of Engineering Education, 94(1), 27-40.

Education Theory

Felder, R and Brent R (2004) The ABC's of engineering education, ABET, Bloom's Taxonomy, Cooperative learning and so on. American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Session 1375, Salt Lake City, Utah. Available at http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/Papers/ASEE04(ABCs).pdf

O’Connor, T, Lecture notes for research methods (http://faculty.ncwc.edu/TOConnor/308/308lects.htm). This page contains the lecture notes of the course "Research Methods" prepared by Tom O'Connor at North Carolina Wesleyan College. The topics covered by the notes are: Inference, Hypotheses, Sampling, Measurement, Validity and Reliability, Scales and Indexes, Experiments and Quasi-Experiments, Surveys, Data Analysis, Qualitative and Historical-Comparative Research, Research Ethics and Program Evaluation and Policy Analysis.

Reflective Practice

Adams, RS, Turns, J and Atman, CJ (2003) Educating effective engineering designers: The role of reflective practice. Design Studies, 24(3), 275-294.

Dias, WPS and Blockley, DI (1995) Reflective practice in engineering design, ICE Proceedings on Civil Engineering, 108(4), 160-168.

Walkington, J, Christensen, HP, Kock, H (2001) Developing critical reflection as a part of teaching training and teaching practice. European Journal of Engineering Education, 26(4)343-350.

Writing 'Teaching Philosophy' Portfolio Materials

Challis,  D (2003) Recording the past to prepare for the future: the role of the teaching portfolio. In “Learning for an unknown future : proceedings of the 2003 Annual International Conference of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA)”, 6-9 July, Christchurch, New Zealand, 92-99.

Kiper, JD, Cross, V,  Delisio, D, Sobel, A and Troy, D  (1996) Perspective on assessment through teaching portfolios in computer science. Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 200-2003.

Schönwetter, DJ,  Sokal, L, Friesen, M and Taylor, KL (2002) Teaching philosophies reconsidered: A conceptual model for the development and evaluation of teaching philosophy statements. International Journal for Academic Development, 7(1), 83-97.

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