The bioecological model as a framework for integrating SoTL research¶

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Description¶

The article proposes Bronfenbrenner's bioecological model as a theoretical framework for synthesizing SoTL findings in higher education. The model involves "four central components: Process, Person, Context, and Time", capturing proximal and distal influences on student learning while attending to individual variation and student-environment interactions. The author maps SoTL variables onto each dimension (e.g., teacher rapport, student characteristics, class size, developmental timing) to organize topics for a new-faculty teaching workshop.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Scholars across disciplines must be broadly familiar with ecological theory, which the article says makes the model a user-friendly synthesis tool

Constraints¶

• The article presents it as one suggestion among other possible frameworks, not an empirically tested integration method

Target Learners¶

• college and university students
• new faculty participating in teaching-oriented workshops

Target Learning Objectives¶

• understanding multiple influences on student learning
• integrating SoTL research across disciplines

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Related Theories¶

• Bioecological Model Of Human Development

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Key Sources¶

• Walls, J. K. (2016). A Theoretically Grounded Framework for Integrating the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 16(2). https://doi.org/10.14434/josotl.v16i2.19217