Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, Volume 29, Number 2

The hottest idea in faculty development is understanding how students (your students) learn. Evidence-based research--scholarly teaching and its peer-reviewed outcome, the scholarship of teaching and learning--can inform classroom teaching behavior and lead to better student learning of your subject in your exact teaching circumstances. By evaluating how well students in your classroom achieve learning objectives with different educational techniques and theories, you can discover and refine the most efficient and effective teaching methods.