... Hauk¹

Last updated 18 January 2007

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... step.²

In fact, research into the role of pedagogical content knowledge in teaching reveals that if an instructor lacks sufficient pedagogical content knowledge, what he considers an ``explanation'' may be percived by many students as gibberish [DavisDavis1997,SchoenfeldSchoenfeld1992].

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... Mathematics³

A lower-division, general education course at the level of College Algebra.

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... weeks⁴

The total number of college students I have taught since earning the Ph.D. - this number includes teaching for several years before arriving at UNC

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... F.⁵

Grade inflation in the 1960's led to typical distribution of 20% A, 40%B, 26% C, 10%D, 4% F.

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... class⁶

See, for example, the course web pages available through http://hopper.unco.edu/hauk .

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... Colorado⁷

These include the now defunct university-wide evaluation form and my own end-of-term evaluation forms, longer than the departmental forms. I added these longer forms during my first year of teaching at UNC so that I could compare students responses at UNC to the responses of students at ASU and Chapman University on a similar collection of prompts.

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... rating⁸

a. The first student evaluation of teaching value is the exact value from (sum of ratings) divided by (number of respondents), the number in boldface is that value rounded to the nearest whole number.

b.

T.&L. = Teaching and Learning

c.

Page updated at the end of the Fall term, 12/23/2005.

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... cycles⁹

As the name implies, action-research is based on a cycle of action and research steps: plan and implement, observe and review; plan again, implement, observe, review, etc. The cycle will be repeated on an annual basis.

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... page¹⁰

See, for example, http://hopper.unco.edu/faculty/personal/hauk/mat120/s04project2.html

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