Evidence-Based Learning and Teaching (Hardcover)

Laurie Richlin's new book brings together what we know, how we know it, and what we should do about the evidence we have for enhancing learning and teaching. The author of Blueprint for Learning (Stylus, 2006) provides details and background on current research contributions to evidence-based learning, as well as two aspects of evidence-based teaching: using evidence and producing evidence. As Richlin defines it, evidence-based learning is the key to the development of critical thinking. She explains how using evidence in teaching is the scholarly teaching she has been writing about for the past twenty years - and how producing evidence in teaching is the basis of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Richlin goes father than displaying the evidence: she provides scaffolding for new and experienced faculty members to build, facilitate, assess, and document their evidence-based courses.