Category: Advanced Seminar in the Learning Sciences

Pellegrino (2022) offered a detailed exploration of educational assessment from a learning sciences perspective, providing practical guidance on how assessments can be thoughtfully designed and used in practice. A few times I questioned my decision to include this chapter in my final critical reflection, especially during past 2 weeks as…

The fourth article I selected is Fishman et al. (2022) because of the strong connections it shares with the other three articles. Hora et al. (2021), Marshall & Horn (2025), Clark et al. (2024), and Fishman et al. (2022) all explore how teachers learn and adapt their teaching practices in…

The article, Reframing design in education: Proposing a framework to support pre-service teachers in adopting designerly stances by Clark et al. (2024), introduced a six-dimension framework to help pre-service teachers adopt designerly thinking in their instructional design practices. Drawing on existing literature and data from the pre-service teacher coursework, the study aims…

The transition from Hora et al.’s (2021) article, which identifies critical issues and needs in faculty development, to Marshall and Horn’s (2025) article feels logical and natural because it shifts the focus to how teachers actually learn and adapt new practices in these complex, real-world contexts. These articles build on…

As someone deeply engaged in supporting post-secondary instructors with online course design, I found the article, A sociocultural approach to communication instruction: How insights from communication teaching practices can inform faculty development programs by Hora et al. (2021) both relevant and insightful for both my professional practice and research. Hora…