Currents in Teaching & Learning

Improving Teaching & Learning in Higher Education

Currents in Teaching and Learning is a peer-reviewed, open-access electronic journal that fosters exchanges among teacher-scholars across the disciplines. Published twice a year (typically one issue in fall, one in spring), Currents seeks to improve teaching and learning in higher education with short reports on classroom practices as well as longer research and theoretical articles related to pedagogy.

Currents 17.1

Editorial: Learning to Risk Effort

Authors: Riley McGuire and Ashley Harvey

Editor and Student Intern

Beyond the Pandemic: Utilizing Schlossberg’s Transition Theory to Consider Implications for Major Transitions of University Students

Authors: Christopher Cummings, Kathleen Geddes-Jay, Nicholas Delaney, and Melinda Phillips

Keywords: Schlossberg’s Transition Theory, college transitions, emergency remote teaching, pandemic, post-intentional phenomenology

Teaching Writing Skills in Sociology: An Intervention to Teach the Literature Review

Authors: Jayne Baker, Tyler Evans-Tokaryk, Lance Stewart, and Michael Kaler

Keywords: academic writing, academic writing instruction, genre, literature reviews, tutorials, writing in the disciplines

Comparing Grade Outcomes of Online and In-Person Tests in the College Classroom: Does the Testing Modality Matter?

Authors: Amanda Cappon and Lynne N. Kennette

Keywords: test modality, student performance, online, in-person, student success

Insights into Teacher Educators’ Understanding of Media Literacy: A Case Study of Undergraduate Teacher Preparation Institutions

Authors: Yongpeng Zhu, Lakia M. Scott, and Yuyan Jiao

Keywords: media literacy, 21st-century skills, undergraduate teacher preparation institutions, teacher educators

Interdisciplinary Co-Teaching and Community-Engaged Learning: Integrating Community Case Studies to Teach Ethics, Justice, and Grassroots Leadership

Authors: Ziwei Qi, Lori Kniffin, and Sammuel Byer

Keywords: interdisciplinary, community-engaged learning, collaborative teaching

Currents in Teaching and Learning is a publication of Worcester State University, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. ISSN: 1945-3043

Editor: Riley McGuire
Managing Editor: Henry C. Theriault
Editorial Interns: Samantha Murphy