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• Evaluating methods of teaching and assessing critical thinking: A mixed methods study of faculty and students across Harvard University

  Awardees will conduct a mixed methods study analyzing the teaching and learning of critical thinking skills at Harvard—the differences in approaches across Schools, and faculty and student perceptions of critical thinking instruction and assessment.

• Understanding the impact of using mechanistic concept mapping as a collaborative learning tool

  Awardee conducted a mixed-methods study in HMS course Homeostasis I.

• Analyzing long-term retention of information in science gateway course

  Awardees will administer a survey to Harvard College graduates to analyze the long-term retention of the concepts and abilities taught in a gateway science course.

• Bridging education research and practice using online learning modules

  Awardees will explore the best-performing sequences of instructional materials in both controlled studies and in the context of real online courses.

• New models for evaluating learning outcomes in digital humanities teaching

  Awardees will host a workshop around opportunities and challenges in digital humanities teaching, applying lessons learned to the assessment of metaLAB platforms.

• Improving statistics literacy in graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in the life sciences

  Awardees will study misconceptions about statistics in a high-enrollment life science course and develop a related computer-based module.

• Innovation and accountability in foreign language program evaluation

  Awardees will organize a new symposium and series of workshops for faculty to explore contemporary approaches in assessing and renewing foreign language curricula.

• New gateway to STEM

  Awardees will install an interactive, touch-screen kiosk running interactive WorldWide Telescope Tours in the Science Center and analyze usage.

• Teaching genomics across Harvard schools

  Awardees will establish the “Harvard Genomics Teaching Group,” share pedagogical approaches, a dedicated platform for analysis, and document best practices.

• Integrating consequential simulations in coursework

  Innovative Teaching using a Trading Simulation

• Badging education: Individualization, collaboration and innovation at the leading edge

  Awardees plan to develop a social media and badging platform that allows students to share and collaboratively develop their core knowledge and competencies.

• Test-enhanced learning: Applying principles of cognitive psychology to education

  Applying principles of cognitive psychology to education. Awardees plan to study how formative assessment can be better used in lecture courses to promote learning.

• The use and evaluation of case-based collaborative learning to teach basic sciences at HMS

  Awardees plan to implement and evaluate a new instructional method that utilizes pre-class preparation, the case method, collaborative learning, and peer instruction.

• Expanding existing innovative program for assessing student learning in hands-on innovation courses

  Expanding existing innovative program for assessing student learning in hands-on innovation courses. Awardee plans to advance methods for better assessing how teams interact and ideas develop during experiential learning in multi-disciplinary engineering classes focused on design and innovation.

• Enhancing student team effectiveness

  Awardees plan to use online assessments to improve team effectiveness and provide students with informative feedback about their role as team members.

• Those who teach, can: Characterizing the link between teaching and professional competency

  Characterizing the link between teaching and professional competency. Awardees plan to study whether teaching and clinical skills correlate, and whether teaching training improves clinical performance.

• HSPH Office of education

  Office of education supports SPH teaching community, provides teaching materials, workshops, and a library of health-based teaching cases.

• HMS Office of Educational Quality Improvement

  Working with Program in Medical Education leadership, the OEQI oversees the intersecting and cross-functional areas of student assessment, course and clerkship evaluation, program evaluation, faculty development, and the Academy of medical educators, and is responsible for planning, implementing, and monitoring the quality improvement process, linking information gleaned from student, course, and program evaluations and assessment data with quality improvement and faculty development initiatives.

• HMS Office of Curriculum Services

  Office of Curriculum Services offers curricular planning services and instructional studio space.

• HKS Strengthening Learning and Teaching Excellence

  Provides confidential consultation services to individual HKS faculty and to HKS faculty groups for professional development purposes. Provides case and curriculum development/materials for public service professional education.

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