The American Psychological Association (APA) has announced that the new journal Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology (STLP) will feature evidence-based teaching tips and reviews of contemporary teaching theories in psychology. It plans to emphasize articles that integrate research, theory and practice to benefit high school, community college, college and university educators—and their students. The inaugural issue will be available this spring.
To be published quarterly, the journal will include teacher-ready reviews of current research and contemporary theories as well as empirical research designed to foster changes that improve teaching and learning outcomes. It will focus on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), including theoretical underpinnings of how students learn; intentional, systematic modifications of pedagogy; and assessments of the resulting changes in learning. STLP will offer a venue for articles that highlight SoTL research across a wide educational spectrum.
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology will publish four types of articles: Research Articles: original, empirical contributions that help educators understand and enhance teaching and learning through evidence-based conclusions; Teacher-Ready Research Reviews: brief reviews of classic or contemporary research findings which have direct implications for teacher pedagogy and student learning, providing a translational platform from laboratory to classroom; Teacher-Ready Theory Reviews: brief reviews of relevant classic or contemporary theories that have direct applications for the improvement of teaching and learning; Cross-Fertilization Updates: articles which foster connections across subdisciplines within psychology (intradisciplinary) as well as outside of psychology (interdisciplinary) concerning the scholarship of teaching and learning.
The new journal is edited by Dr. Regan A. R. Gurung, Professor of Human Development and Psychology, and Chair of Human Development, at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, and Dr. R. Eric Landrum, Professor of Psychology at Boise State University.
The journal is now accepting submissions. Prospective contributors and subscribers are encouraged to visit the journal's APA homepage: http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/stl.
Articles published in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology will also be available through PsycARTICLES®, the most used full-text database in psychology and one of the most popular databases in all scholarly disciplines and fields. PsycARTICLES is available to a global audience of nearly 3,400 institutions and 60 million potential users.
