Summary: This award will be given to individuals with a strong record of contributing to educational research. This research may include some areas that are not usually thought of as “research”. (See examples at the bottom of this page.)
Educational Research: activities may include disciplined inquiries which involve the investigation of specific questions and the sharing of results through formal and informal means of dissemination. These forms of disciplined inquiry might include: collecting and reporting the results of an evaluation of a curriculum intervention, organizing and reporting longitudinal outcome information about student performance in a course undergoing "continuous improvement," obtaining and reporting results of a needs assessment, conducting and reporting a comparison of two types of teaching methods.
Evidence of Quality: demonstration of quality may include: peer review, critical appraisal of your research, H-Index, Altmetric score, impact factor of journals where your work has been published, reference of your work by other researchers, external recognition, description of your preparation/background and ongoing self-improvement which enables you to perform high quality research, letters of support, usage statistics.
Evidence of the Quantity: include the number of education related specific questions examined, the number of initiatives (i.e., discrete studies) associated with each question, and the number of disseminations. (Non-peer reviewed items will also be considered.)
Evidence of Breadth: (e.g., diversity of educational research) may include different thematic areas, different types of questions focused on different educational issues and/or learner populations, different types of research methods, different venues for disseminating results. Depth and scope may also be counted as breadth in Educational Research.
Instructions for Submitting Portfolios: The following examples set the standards for the category of Educational Research. You should accumulate and document as much evidence as possible of your global teaching accomplishments with an emphasis on the past 5 years.
It is expected that your mini-portfolio will vary in content from the examples above. The overarching concept is that the evidence you present demonstrates a strong commitment to educational research in terms of quantity, quality, and breadth.