On the heels of March Madness (the NCAA College Basketball Tournament) and the Spring Rx Writing Challenge, the Fika Crew talks with Zachary Noel, PharmD, PhD, BCCP—Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy—about his recently published paper on ungrading individual readiness assessment tests (iRAT) and its impact on student performance and motivation in a team-based learning course. We then go on tangents to discuss how to become a better education researcher, the keys to enhancing the rigor of SoTL efforts, and our personal motivations to persist.
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Resources
Noel Z, Kulo V, Cestone C, et al. Ready or Not: A Crossover Study of (Un)graded Individual Readiness Assurance Tests in Team-Based Learning. Am J Pharm Educ 2024; 88 (3): Article 100670. Cox W, Wettergreen S, Savage A, Brock T. Research and Scholarly Methods: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. J Am Coll Clin Pharm 2023; 6 (9): 1071-1077. Haines ST and Seybert A. Getting Beyond Learner Reactions: Elevating Our Scholarship About Teaching and Learning. J Am Coll Clin Pharm 2021; 4 (2): 130-132. Lyons KM, Cain JJ, Haines ST, Gasevic D, Brock TP. The clinical educator's guide to fostering learner motivation: AAME Guide No. 137. Med Teacher 2021; 43 (5): 492-500. Dy-Boarman EA, Wippermann B, Janke K. Scholarly maturation and other factors supporting publishing productivity in educational scholarship for clinical faculty. Curr Pharm Teach Learn 2021; 13 (11): 1398-1407._______________________
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