Writing up your own work

Topic: Writing up research into teaching

In writing up classroom research, when and how is it appropriate to use work produced by your students?

This topic is designed to help you improve:

your understanding of the origination and ownership of work, in the scholarship of teaching and learning
your skill in working properly with your students’ work when you are investigating your teaching

What do you think? In this topic, you can consider the ideas of the vice president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

What do you think: Is your students’ work your data, or is it their contribution, when you are writing up your classroom research?

Further reading on this topic:

Burman, M., & Kleinsasser A. (2004). Ethical guidelines for the use of student work: Moving from teaching's invisibility to inquiry's visibility in the scholarship of teaching and learning. Journal of General Education, 53(1), 59-79. Retrieved June 1, 2006 from http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_general_education/v053/53.1burman.html

Includes 9 principles to guide use of student work in classroom inquiry based on reviews of the literatures on ethics of teaching and ethics of research, and on the work of scholars in the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL)

Overview | Publishing your work | Citing your own work
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