The 2006 UW Teaching and Learning Symposium is scheduled for Tuesday, April 25, 3:00-4:30 p.m. The Symposium will take place in Mary Gates Commons, and will provide you with opportunities to interact with UW instructors who are actively engaged in examining teaching and learning in their disciplines.

This page provides a complete list of presenters and poster titles, each of which is linked to an abstract for the poster. The full set of session abstracts is also available in pdf format:

• 2006 Teaching and Learning Symposium - Session Abstracts (.pdf)

Schedule

• Welcome and Introduction - Mary Pat Wenderoth, Symposium Planning Committee
• Opening Remarks - UW Provost Phyllis Wise

3:15-4:30 p.m. - Concurrent Poster Sessions

The Symposium will feature 25 Concurrent Poster Sessions, representing the work of 52 Faculty and TAs from 30 different departments and programs on all three UW campuses. You are invited to visit the Symposium and see what your UW colleagues have been discovering about teaching and learning.

Posters Sessions represent work in the following areas:

• Enhancing Learning in the Classroom
  • Engaging Students
  • Examining Teaching
  • Teaching, Learning, and Technology
• Teaching Across the Disciplines
• Students as Researchers

Enhancing Learning in the Classroom

Engaging Students

• A Supplementary Instruction Model for Engaging Students in Active Learning and Enhancing Metacognition
  Brian Buchwitz and Clarissa Dirks - Biology

• It's Not Just Fun and Games: How the Use of Games and Team Activities Can Decrease Anxiety and Increase Fun in a Language Learning Classroom.
  Jennifer Evans - English (MATESOL), UW ELP

• Using Active Learning to Improve Student Performance in a Large Lecture Class
  Scott Freeman and Mary Pat Wenderoth - Biology

• Preparing Students for Group Assignments Through Performance
  Diane Gillespie and Sally Rosamond - Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW Bothell

• The Limits of Disciplinary-Specific Metacognitive Learning Requiring Advanced Critical Thinking and Writing Skills: Rethinking the U.S. History Survey Course
  Michael Goldberg - Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW Bothell

• Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education Academic Pathways Study:
  A Longitudinal Mixed-Methods Study of Engineering Students’ Learning and Development in the College Years
  Deborah Kilgore, Cynthia J. Atman, Theresa Barker, Jenni Light, Jason Saleem, Ken Yasuhara (College of Engineering); Reed Stevens, Portia Sabin, Lari Garrison, Daniel Amos (College of Education)

• Learning by Experience:  Exploring Fadiman's The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
  Jerelyn Resnick - UW Bothell Nursing Program

• The Computer Science Gender Gap: Students at the Threshold
  Ken Yasuhara, Computer Science and Engineering

• Discovering Our Values As Teachers Through Our Students
  Donald Chinn, Computing and Software Systems, UW Tacoma

  Learning to be Teachers: The Engineering Teaching Portfolio Program
  YiMin Huang, Jessica Yellin, Jennifer Turns

• Using Formative Evaluations as a Student-Centered Approach to Improving the Implementation of Problem-Based Learning Modules
  Kerryn Reding - Epidemiology

• The Secret Life of Engineering Education Researchers
  Ken Yasuhara, Computer Science and Engineering

• E-Portfolios in Introductory Comp: Enlarging Conceptions of Composing
  Janice Fournier, Cara Lane, Steven Corbett - Catalyst Research & Development, English

• Podcasting at the UW: An Evaluation of Current Use
  Cara Lane - Catalyst Research & Development

• Creating a Video Clip Resource to Enhance Linguistics Courses
  Sharon Hargus (Linguistics) and Steve Moran (Linguistics, Language Learning Center)

• Interactive Lectures with “Clickers” - They are a HITT!
  R. Daryl Pedigo - Physics

• Video Traces
  Reed Stevens - Cognitive Studies in Education

• Urban Archives: Collaborating with Undergraduates in Researching the City
  Irina Gendelman, Giorgia Aiello, Tom Dobrowolsky - Communication

• The Pre-Major in Astronomy Program (Pre-MAP)
  Daryl Haggard, Eric Agol, Marcel Agüeros, Kevin Covey, Nick Cowan, Eric Hilton - Astronomy

• International Undergraduate Field Research: Training Chinese and American Students to be Working Researchers
  Stevan Harrell (Anthropology, Burke Museum, UW WorldWide Program), David Yu Weng (Junior in Life Sciences at Sichuan University), & J. Alex Kyllo (Junior in International Studies at the University of Washington)

• How to Engage Advanced Undergraduate Physics Majors in a Research Project with an Outreach Component
  R. Jeffrey Wilkes - Physics

The Teaching and Learning Symposium is hosted by by the Faculty Council on Instructional Quality, the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Forum, the Teaching Academy, the Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching, and the Center for Instructional Development and Research.

For additional information, see: