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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.
Writing to Learn Practices and Practical Steps to Curricular Innovations and Assessment in STEM · November 1, 2012 Lecture Kansas City Missouri
Iterative Approaches to Student Learning: Writing to Learn 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
Reframing Assessment: Teaching as an Interactive Process of Inquiry · January 7, 2011 Lecture Indiana University’s Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Colloquia, Bloomington, IN.
Writing-to-Learn: A Tool for Strengthening and Assessing Undergraduate Learning; and Engagement · January 7, 2011 Lecture Reinvention Center Conference,Crystal City, VA.
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.
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.
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.

Service to the Profession


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