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3rd Annual McGraw-Hill and Magna Publications Scholarly Work on Teaching and Learning Award
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2010 Winner
We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2nd annual McGraw-Hill and Magna Publications Award for Scholarly Work on Teaching and Learning. This award was created to recognize outstanding scholarly work on teaching and learning and is co-sponsored by McGraw-Hill and Magna Publications. A call for articles published between 2007 and the present appeared on the Teaching Professor website. Those interested were invited to nominate their own work or that of others. An Award Review Panel has selected a winning article and two finalists. The $1,000 stipend that accompanies the award will be presented at the 2010 Teaching Professor Conference.
Winning article
Carrithers, D., Ling, T., and Bean, J. C. (2008). Messy problems and lay audiences:
Teaching critical thinking within the finance curriculum. Business Communication Quarterly, 71 (2), 152-170.
Find the article at: http://bcq.sagepub.com/
Finalist articles, listed in alphabetical order
Kraemer, E. W., Lombardo, S. V., and Lepkowski, F. J. (2007). The librarian, the machine, or a little of both: A comparative study of three information literacy pedagogies at Oakland University. College & Research Libraries, 68 (4), 330-342.
Find the article at http://crl.acrl.org/content/68/4/330.full.pdf+html.
Pollard, E. A. (2008). Raising the stakes: Writing about witchcraft on wikipedia. The History Teacher, 42 (1), 9-24.
Find the article at http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ht/42.1/pollard.html.
Many thanks to the Award Review Panel:
Joan Middendorf, Associate Director Campus Instructional Consulting and one of the authors of the winning article in 2009
Christopher Millson-Martula, Director of the Library at Lynchburg College, editor of College and Undergraduate Libraries
Ed Neal – Academic Consultant, editor of the Journal of Faculty Development
Deborah Vess – Professor of history and interdisciplinary studies at Georgia College and State University, Coordination of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
Jane Schmidt-Wilk, associate professor of management education at Marharishi University of Management, editor of the Journal of Management Education
2009 Winner
Diaz, A., J., Middendorf, J., Pace, D., and Shopkow, L. (2008). The history learning project: A department decodes its students. Journal of American History, 94 (4), 1211-1224.
2009 Finalists, listed in alphabetical order
Hawk, T. F., and Lyons, P. R. (2008). Please don’t give up on me: When faculty fail to care. Journal of Management Education, 32 (3), 316-338.
Hayes-Bohanan, P., and Spievak, E. (2008). You can lead students to sources, but can you make them think? Journal of College and Undergraduate Libraries, 15 (1-2), 173-210.
Lerner, N., Craig, J., and Poe, M. (2008). Innovation across the curriculum: Three case studies in teaching science and engineering communication. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 51 (3), 280-301.
Prince, M. J., Felder, R. M., and Brent, R. (2007). Does faculty research improve undergraduate teaching? An analysis of existing and potential synergies. Journal of Engineering Education, 96 (4), 283-294.