Center for Excellence in TeachingAssessing the environmental resource impacts of food waste at a USC dining hall
Audra Bardsley and Jill Sohm discuss assessing the environmental resource impacts of food waste at a USC dining hall at the November 2021 Faculty Showcase.
Resources: TAs
Teaching experimental design and data analysis with students calling the shots.
Julie Hopper discusses teaching experimental design and data analysis at the November 2021 Faculty Showcase.
Role play in research methods: A focus group activity
Mischelle Van Brakle discusses role play in research methods as a focus group activity in the November 2021 Faculty Showcase.
Student becomes the teacher: Engaging students as producers of content for the flipped classroom
Benjamin Graham discusses engaging students as producers of content for the flipped classroom at the November 2021 Faculty Showcase.
Flipped classroom paradigm for a health sciences statistics class
Farzana Choudhury discusses using a flipped classroom for a health sciences statistics class at the November 2021 Faculty Showcase.
Using case studies and simulation to facilitate duality, necessity, and repeated reasoning in introductory statistics
Cymra Haskell discusses using case studies to facilitate duality, necessity, and repeated reasoning in introductory statistics at the November 2021 Faculty Showcase.
Using asynchronous interview examples to model qualitative methods
Julie Slayton discusses using asynchronous interview examples to model qualitative research methods at the November 2021 Faculty Showcase.
Interactive statistics Zoom zone!
Lorena Martin discusses interactive statistics using Zoom at the November 2021 Faculty Showcase.
Instructional scaffolding
A description of instructional scaffolding – the process of breaking an assignment into smaller steps – and options for scaffolding assignments and learning experiences.
USC CET Education Research Bibliography
This annotated bibliography of selected educational literature was developed to support USC faculty, administrators, and schools in the development and evaluation of excellence in teaching. The focus, particularly in the section Teaching Best Practices in the USC Definition of Excellence in Teaching Criteria, is on published research that experimentally validates the effectiveness of practices that promote student learning outcomes.