Teaching and Learning Research

This page is intended to help UW Faculty, TAs, Librarians, and other scholars access
the scholarly literature on teaching and learning in their disciplines.

Center for Instructional Development & Research (CIDR) resources:
- Teaching and Learning Research Periodicals
- Professional Development on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Library services including:
- Alert Services for current literature in your discipline
- Article Delivery options
- Search for Articles Using Databases
Additional assistance:
- Ask A Librarian
- Consultation Services at CIDR

Teaching and Learning Research Periodicals

CIDR & the Libraries have compiled a list of Teaching and Learning Research Periodicals. These titles, which are available through the UW Libraries, can be browsed by discipline.

Professional Development on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

CIDR provides professional development opportunities on The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning for UW Faculty, TAs, and Other Scholars.

Alert services

Many databases provided by the UW Libraries offer alert services that allow you to be notified automatically by email of newly published materials in your subject area.

Article Delivery Options

UW Users (except Health Sciences and Law)	Health Sciences and Social Work Users	Non-UW Users
Request items using UWorld Document Delivery (UW Only- Requires UWNetID login)	Order from HSL Document Delivery Fees may apply	Order from UWorld Document Delivery or HSL Document Delivery UWorld Express - Services and Costs

Search for Articles Using Databases

Supplement browsing journals with searches for specific articles on a topic. By combining search terms for your topic, discipline, or pedagogical approach in one or more of these databases you can retrieve article citations, abstracts, and in some cases, links to electronic full-text of the article itself. Three databases to search are suggested here but you can also use the Browse Subjects section of the Libraries Information Gateway to identify additional discipline-specific periodical databases.

These examples illustrate a few sample searches.

ERIC UW restricted

PsycINFO UW restricted

Sponsored by the US Dept of Education with coverage back to 1966, this database consists of two files: the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE) file of journal article citations from over 750 professional journals and the Resources in Education (RIE) file of document citations.

Search terms from the ERIC Thesaurus to combine with terms describing your discipline:

college instruction
college curriculum
instructional design
instructional effectiveness
teaching methods - more specific terms include
- case method
- clinical teaching
- learner controlled instruction
- lecture method
- discovery learning
- cooperative learning
distance education
cognitive objectives
affective objectives
behavioral objectives

Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.

Search terms from the PsycINFO Thesaurus to combine with terms describing your discipline:

college teachers
teaching
teaching methods
learning
experiential learning
lecture method
directed discussion method
computer assisted instruction

junk

Includes three citation indexes with coverage back to 1975:

Science Citation Index
Social Science Citation Index
Arts & Humanities Citation Index

This database does not provide a thesaurus. Use synonyms for the key concepts of your search to ensure complete results.

In addition to searching for articles on a topic you can also search to see what articles have cited a particular book or article.

With any search result you can utilize built-in links to explore the network of cited work related to a specific article.

The Times Cited link will provide a list of articles that have cited the article citation displayed
The Find Related Records button will bring up articles that share at least one bibliographic reference with the article displayed

Teaching and Learning Research

This page is intended to help UW Faculty, TAs, Librarians, and other scholars access the scholarly literature on teaching and learning in their disciplines.