TEF WINNERS BY YEAR
2008
Dr. Michelle Inderbitzin
Oregon State University
MLI@oregonstate.edu
Inderbitzin will launch a project that incorporates an extensive service-learning component into an upper-level sociology course on juvenile delinquency. Her students will work directly with delinquent youth in Corvallis, OR, to develop community benefit projects based upon the concept of restorative justice. A portion of the TEF grant will be used to provide seed money to launch the projects designed in the course. The course will aim to develop a collaborative learning environment in which delinquent youth will experience college-level academic work and OSU students will learn from the particular experiences of their younger classmates.
Dr. Ronald L. Mize
Cornell University
RLM65@cornell.edu
Mize will publish and promote student website projects from courses on comparative racial and ethnic relations in the United States and comparative social inequality. He intends for the projects completed in his courses to be brought to a broad public audience through the Task Force on Institutionalizing Public Sociology and Cornell University websites. Students have produced projects that address race and higher education, mass media, prisons, and immigration legislation. In the upcoming social inequality course, students will create project websites that analyze the production and consumption effects of commodities like coffee, clothing, chocolate, and pharmaceuticals. TEF funding will be used to develop a central, polished website for the ongoing collection and publicizing of the students’ projects.
2007
Dr. Wendy Cadge
Dr. David Cunningham and
Dr. Sara Shostak
Brandeis University
wcadge@brandeis.edu
Cadge, Cunningham, and Shostak will pilot a program to integrate the teaching and learning of undergraduate and graduate research methods. Graduate students will be given the opportunity to serve as research consultants and project leaders in the undergraduate research class. The undergraduate students will have the opportunity to work with the graduate students in small research project groups, enhancing the “learning by doing” nature of research.
Dr. Karl Kunkel
Missouri State University
karlkunkel@missouristate.edu
Kunkel will conduct a focus group assessment of a CD-ROM and active learning teaching strategy for a course on “Crime, Class, Race, and Justice.” All course material that was previously delivered in lectures will be turned into voice-over presentations on a CD-ROM, which students could use and review at their own pace. Students will view specific presentations prior to class so that the entire class time can be devoted to interactive learning exercises. The project will study whether the combination of better organized lecture material on CD-ROM and active learning within the class time enhances learning.
Dr. Kathleen McKinney
Illinois State University
kmckinne@ilstu.edu
McKinney will conduct a longitudinal study of a cohort of sociology majors in order to research their development of identities as sociologists, their ability to use their sociological imaginations, their engagement in the discipline of sociology, and their sense of being autonomous learners. Self-administered questionnaires, face-to-face interviews, learning reflection essays, a sociological imagination essay question, and the Motivated Learning Strategies Questionnaire will be used to assess the development of the given cohort of majors.
Ms. Trina Rose and
Dr. Sue Wortmann
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
trose@unlserve.unl.edu
Rose and Wortmann will investigate the effects of using Personal Response Systems (PRS), also known as clickers, in large classrooms. Over the course of two years the devices will be used in large lower-level sociology classrooms, using an experimental design to determine their effects on attendance, active learning, community, student grades, and instructor evaluations. The project should shed light on whether these PRS devices are useful in sociology classrooms and whether they enhance student learning as an active pedagogy.
2006
Dr. Agnes Caldwell
Adrian College
acaldwell@adrian.edu
Caldwell will create and maintain a website on critical thinking in sociology geared for high school and higher education sociology educators. The website will share syllabi, curricular activities, and materials showing how to evaluate critical thinking.
Dr. John Foran
University of California-Santa Barbara
foran@soc.ucsb.edu
Foran will develop an online training module that will introduce students to the main research traditions in sociology, including, but not limited to, survey research, ethnography, interviewing, and comparative-historical methods, in order to prepare students for advanced methods training and capstone research projects later in their undergraduate careers.
Dr. Dana M. Greene and
Dr. James R. Peacock
Appalachian State University
greenedm@gmail.com
Greene and Peacock will develop and implement quantitative modules in five required lower-level sociology courses. Greene has been active in ASA’s Integrating Data Analysis (IDA) project and has developed exercises to help students become more comfortable with basic data analysis.
Dr. Karen Honeycutt
Keene State College
karen_honeycutt@yahoo.com
Honeycutt will develop a VHS and DVD archive of selected TV networks and programs to be used as a content analysis dataset. This database will be available, at first, to students and faculty at her institution through the Center for Cultural and Media Studies (CCMS), and will eventually be made available to the general public through the CCMS website.
Dr. Susan Rakosi Rosenbloom
Drew University
and Dr. Francis Schmidt
Bergen Community College
srosenbl@drew.edu
Rosenbloom and Schmidt will develop a website catalogue of visual images and lesson plans to accompany sociology course material, particularly highlighting the relevance of the sociology of childhood and youth to core sociology courses.
Dr. Ronica N. Rooks
Kent State University
ronica.rooks@cudenver.edu
Rooks will coordinate a service learning project focused on health care settings for her Sociology of Health and Health Care class. She will develop an updated community organization database to help students choose where they will do their service learning project. Rooks’ project will include exercises to help students apply what they have learned about social change, organizations, and inequality to health care settings.
Dr. Stephen Sharkey and
Dr. Jeana Abromeit
Alverno College
stephen.sharkey@alverno.edu
Sharkley and Abromeit will integrate Geographical Information Systems (GIS) into their core required research sequence for the sociology major. They hope eventually to prepare an article for Teaching Sociology, evaluating the effects of implementing GIS on student learning.
2005
Mr. Walt Bower
Dr. Shaunna L. Scott and
Dr. Pat Whitlow
University of Kentucky
whbowe2@uky.edu
Appalachian and Minority Students’ Perceptions of Participation in the College Classroom
Bower, Scott and Whitlow will develop and administer a survey to undergraduate students focusing on understanding the impact of region/rurality and race and ethnicity on college classroom participation. They will publish and present their findings with suggestions to enhance teaching strategies and classroom participation for all students.
Dr. Samuel G. Collins
Dr. Whitney C. Garcia and
Dr. Marion R. Hughes
Towson University
scollins@towson.edu
Tracking the Successful Scholar: Using Video to Combine Vocational and Methodological Training in Sociology and Anthropology
Collins, Garcia and Hughes will assign student projects to conduct videotaped interviews with recent sociology and anthropology graduates to ask questions explicitly linking sociological and anthropological understandings to their careers and future aspirations. These videos will be available on their department website.
Dr. Michael DeCesare
California State University, Northridge
mdecesare@csun.edu
A National Study of High School Sociology
DeCesare will develop and distribute a mail questionnaire to gather national data on public high school sociology courses, teachers and students. The results of DeCesare’s research will be made available to individuals and groups who influence the high school social studies curriculum, including superintendents, principals, and social studies department chairpersons, in order to improve the teaching of high school sociology.
Dr. Laurie Russell Hatch and
Ms. Carey Brown
University of Kentucky
lrhatch@uky.edu
What is Racism? A Project to Assess and Utilize Undergraduate Students’ Understandings of Racism as a Teaching Tool
Hatch and Brown will create and distribute a survey to 500 undergraduate sociology majors to assess how students define racism. After analyzing the data, Hatch and Brown will help instructors acknowledge and learn about students’ perceptions of racism by providing a tool for teaching about racism for all class sizes. They will also conduct a campus-wide workshop for graduate students on teaching about racism.
Dr. Edward L. Kain
Southwestern University
kaine@southwestern.edu
National Patters in the Undergraduate Curriculum
Kain will examine the sociology major requirements from a random sample of college catalogs in order to describe national patterns in the undergraduate curriculum. This content analysis will be used to assess how the recommendations in Liberal Learning and the Sociology Major Updated (McKinney et al. 2004) are currently reflected in the curriculum. The Department Resources Group (DRG) consultants and department chairs working on curriculum reform can also use these data.
Dr. Carol Miller
University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse
miller.caro@uwlax.edu
Enhancing Teaching and Learning of Sociology at a Joint Conference of the Wisconsin Sociological Association and Illinois Sociological Association
Miller will organize multiple workshops at a joint conference between the Wisconsin Sociological Association and the Illinois Sociological Association for sociology instructors to share best teaching practices, assessment methods, and advice for conducting scholarship of teaching and learning.
Dr. Lynn H. Ritchey
University of Cincinnati—Raymond Walters College
lynn.ritchey@uc.edu
Sociological WebQuests on the Internet
Ritchey will develop and maintain a website aimed at enhancing sociological understanding through using guided internet assignments such as WebQuests, Virtual Explorations, and Internet Scavenger Hunts. Ritchey intends for the website to become a repository of guided assignments for faculty at the college or secondary education level, students, and the general public.
2004
Dr. Tanetta Anderson
Case Western Reserve University
TEA@case.edu
Visual Sociology Workshop
Anderson will lead a three-day workshop this spring on visual sociology for teachers at regional universities. From this workshop, Anderson will develop an academic-year seminar on visual sociology and a CD-ROM of teaching materials.
Dr. Jeff Chin
Le Moyne College
chin@lemoyne.edu
Those Who CAN - Teach!
With the Section on Teaching and Learning, Chin will lead a day-long conference at the 2004 Annual Meeting for graduate students and junior faculty interested in the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Dr. Harriett Hartman
Rowan University
hartman@rowan.edu
Sociology for "Scientific" Eyes
Hartman will develop an introductory sociology course for science, engineering, and math majors. This project seeks to increase awareness among non-sociology majors of the important contributions of the social sciences. In addition to the course, Hartman will develop a reading list for others teaching similar courses and produce a related website.
Mr. Sal Zerilli
University of California-Los Angeles
szerilli@ucla.edu
Simulation game for college and high school students
With a team of graduate and undergraduate students and high school teachers, Zerilli will develop a social simulation game based on an underpriviledged community in inner-city Los Angeles. This game will be incorporated into junior and senior level social studies courses at Locke Senior High School in Los Angeles. A social studies curriculum will be developed to accompany the simulation game. The team hopes to eventually publish the game and make it available to high schools and colleges throughout the country.
2003
Dr. Beth Caniglia
Oklahoma State University
canigli@okstate.edu
Educating for Diversity at Oklahoma State University
In response to racially-charged incidents on campus, Caniglia developed a Multicultural Education Resource Center and a faculty workshop series on diversity issues in higher education. Both efforts contribute to the development of a general education course requirement on diversity that addresses complacency about diversity on campus.
Dr. Anne Cross
University of Wisconsin-Stout
crossa@uwstout.edu
Data Analysis Exercises for High School and College Sociology Courses
This project emphasized the importance of integrating data analysis into the sociology curriculum. Cross trained teachers to use these exercises and developed a teacher-training website that provided instructional resources and support to teachers of sociology.
Dr. Kimberly Goyette
Temple University
kgoyette@temple.edu
High School Workshops on Racial Issues
Goyette coordinated with graduate stude
