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Robert J. Thompson Jr.

Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Neuroscience
Psychology & Neuroscience
Box 90086, Durham, NC 27708-0042
320 Reuben-Cooke Building, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Using Team Designed Cognitive Apprenticeship to Improve Writing and Thinking in Large Courses. · December 4, 2013 Lecture AtlAssociation of American Colleges and Universities Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.
Use of General Education Assessment Findings for Educational Improvement · December 4, 2013 Lecture Association of American Colleges and Universities Network for Academic Renewal Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts.
Iterative Approaches to Student Learning: Writing to Learn in STEM · November 1, 2012 Lecture Kansas City, Missouri
Writing to Learn Practices and Practical Steps to Curricular Innovations and Assessment in STEM · November 1, 2012 Lecture Kansas City Missouri
Frameworks for Linking Assessment Data and Decision Making · June 1, 2012 Lecture Albuquerque, New Mexico
Valuing Humanistic and Cultural Knowledge in a Global Society · November 4, 2011 Lecture Providence, Rhode Island.
Teaching as an Iterative Process of Inquiry · August 19, 2011 Lecture University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Writing-to-Learn: A Tool for Strengthening and Assessing Undergraduate Learning; and Engagement · January 7, 2011 Lecture Reinvention Center Conference,Crystal City, VA.
Reframing Assessment: Teaching as an Interactive Process of Inquiry · January 7, 2011 Lecture Indiana University’s Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Colloquia, Bloomington, IN.
Engagement; and Using Writing to Improve and Measure Learning in STEM Courses · January 7, 2011 Lecture Reinvention Center Conference, Crystal City, VA.
Systematic Improvement of Teaching & Learning Through Experimentation and Assessment. · January 1, 2011 Lecture Association of American Colleges and Universities Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
Accelerating the Adoption of Evidence-Based Improvement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education · December 15, 2010 Lecture Palo Alto, CA
Reframing Assessment: Teaching as an Interactive Process of Inquiry · January 7, 2010 Lecture Indiana University’s Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Colloquia, Bloomington, IN.
General education at the research university in the 21st century: Innovative alternatives to the four-year liberal arts college model · January 6, 2008 Lecture Reinvention Center, Washington, DC.
Strategic measures: Utilizing assessment as an integral part of program pedagogy, institutional outcomes, and marketing · January 6, 2008 Lecture Association of American Colleges & Universities, Washington, DC.

Service to the Profession


Senior Consultant on Assessment : Reinvention Center · January 1, 2010 Other