Standard 5.C
Modeling Best Professional Practices in Scholarship
Target: Professional education faculty demonstrate scholarly work related to teaching, learning, and their fields of specialization. They are actively engaged in inquiry that ranges from knowledge generation to exploration and questioning of the field to evaluating the effectiveness of a teaching approach.
The books and chapters authored by the faculty members in the College of Education during 2001-2002 may be found on p. 10 of the 2002 COE Annual Report. Comparable information for 2002-03 may be found in the 2003 COE Annual Report.
According to data compiled from portions of the annual "Faculty Activity Report," the number of COE tenure-track faculty members who reported a publication (includes concerts, exhibitions, etc.) each year during the 1997-98 to 2001-2002 years has been around 60 per year. The total number of publications reported per year has been in the 180-200 range during that five-year period. Detail may be seen by making a click here.
However, the number of COE tenure-track faculty members who reported a presentation each year has increased steadily from 76 in 1997-98 to 88 in 2001-02. The total number of presentations reported has increased from 280 in 1997-98 to 388 in 2001-02. Detail may be seen by making a click here.
At the Fall 2002 and Fall 2003 COE Fall Conferences, the dean presented awards (including a voucher for professional travel) to outstanding faculty members based on their career contributions to categories outlined in Boyer's Scholarship Revisited--the scholarship of teaching, the scholarship of application, the scholarship of integration, and the scholarship of discovery.