Designing a SoTL Study

These Google Slides, developed for the University of Virginia’s SoTL Scholars program, provide an overview of descriptive and quasi-experimental studies–two of the most popular SoTL study designs.

This website offers a high-level overview of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods, along with examples of SoTL studies that utilize each method.

This table compiled by Jennifer Friberg presents a variety of different study designs, exemplar SoTL projects aligned with those designs, and qualitative and quantitative analysis options.

This worksheet, developed for the University of Virginia’s SoTL Scholars program, walks you through designing your SoTL study. Within this worksheet, you will also find a supplemental resource on brainstorming your study design with AI.

There are a variety of SoTL inquiry methods: case studies, content analyses, quasi-experiments, interviews, secondary analysis of institutional data, and more. Hear from SoTL Scholars about ways they have used Arts & Humanities inquiry methods to answer SoTL research questions.