Extend NZ/NZEXT105/Designing your SoTL project/Introduction

“	Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.	”
—Paul J. Meyer

Designing your SoTL project - Introduction

Now comes the interesting part - designing a SoTL project of your own!

Many institutions and educational networks provide useful links for planning SoTL research projects, including:

• Introduction to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, on the University of Leicester's website
• Researching Teaching and Student Outcomes in Postsecondary Education: A Guide published by the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario
• The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: A Practical Introduction and Critique, developed by Ako Aotearoa
• Resources for Preparing your Research Proposal on Western University's website

Each of these sites also discusses the types of data collection strategies you might consider, such as:

• Portfolios
• Interviews and focus groups
• Observational research
• Questionnaires
• Experiments and quasi-experiments
• Case studies
• Secondary analysis of analytical data that may already exist

It is up to you to select the method that best suits your problem and intent.